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Apple has finally delivered on a much-anticipated update to the iOS interface I'm Taylor Martin this is pocket now and this is a walkthrough of Iowa seven gold master edition we've said it for years now Apple's iOS was in need of a facelift and not just any facelift an extensive one that visually put it on par with its rapidly updated competition iOS which debuted in 2007 still uses the same old interface with minor changes that have been made along the way such as the ability to apply a wallpaper Notification Center and the task switching menu in just one week that changes unless you've been running the beta since June on sep tember 18 apple will push its massive iOS 7 update to the public for compatible devices which consists of the iphone for a newer ipad to a newer ipad mini and fifth generation iPod so what's new what's different from before visually almost everything has changed starting with the lock screen it has been given a much cleaner appearance it no longer looks cluttered and small but is now much lighter in welcoming you can slide to unlock from anywhere on the screen and the camera quick access is still in the lower right corner but blends nicely with the rest of the UI you may also notice two bars on the lock screen that weren't there before in June on beta 1 these were arrows that pointed towards the center of the display paired with the subtle flashing text that reads slide to unlock it was somewhat confusing as if sliding up would unlock the phone but these are no longer arrows and it's a lot less ambiguous sliding to unlock is clearly done by sliding from left to right and the top and bottom bars are for something else entirely the top is for a much cleaner and more useful Notification Center which is now tabbed with a today section all and missed like the rest of the UI it's slightly transparent giving it the appearance of layers almost as if you're pulling a glass pane down to look at your notifications the bottom bar is something completely new to iOS control center users have longed for a quicker way to access and toggle settings for as long as we can remember an apple did so in a beautiful manner pull up from the bottom of the display anywhere control center allows toggles for airplane mode Wi-Fi Bluetooth do not disturb and rotation lock it is a slider for brightness music control blows air drop and shortcuts to the camera calculator timer and a flashlight toggle if you have a pen set you will also see the new pen lock page which looks similar to the dialer with its circular dial pad like control center in Notification Center this page is also slightly transparent lending to the illusion of working in layers once you slide past the lock screen you will quickly notice just how much has changed about the appearance of iOS every stock icon has been updated flattened and given a cleaner look pay close attention and you may also notice that not all the icons are static the status bar is now fully transparent the signal indicator is a series of five circles instead of the standard five bars and the battery indicator has changed as well oh and the new color palette is difficult to miss Iowa certainly wasn't Dolan colors before and it most definitely isn't now before the colors were very tame and mild now their vivid vibrant neon and with the translucence everything seems to match whatever color scheme your wallpaper promotes speaking of wallpapers iOS now offers dynamic wallpapers which are basically no different from live wallpapers on Android however the static wallpapers stock or your own are given a subtle 3d effect when you change the angle of the phone the wallpaper shifts in the opposite direction to create the illusion that the icons hover just above the wallpaper folders have also been changed only 9 icons appear at a time yet now folders are paginated removing the 16 application limit we can't say however that swiping through a series of pages within a folder is much more useful you may also notice that spotlight search is no longer accessed by swiping one page to the left of the leftmost homescreen the icon simply bounce back and nothing happens to access spotlight you now must pull down on the homescreen a nice subtle necessary tweak spotlight was never worthy of an entire page to itself even the Settings app and the app store look entirely different with a new clean white space interface they're the same as before but they incorporate newer cleaner buttons and the new gestures if you navigate to a submenu or an application page in either application or any updated application for that matter a gentle flick from the left edge to the right will take you back to the previous page and all the buttons from the share button to the pop-up menus have been simplified with narrow typeface and simple line icons speaking of the share button it now reveals a more in-depth sharing menu which includes airdrop and separated sharing options and actions the keyboard no longer has a dark grey background it's now light gray to match the rest of the OS and it too is flat that said you will remain to see the old keyboard in applications that have yet to be updated the task switching menu accessed by a double tap of the home button is also new like other operating systems it utilizes a car do I which gives a preview of the current status of the app and the open apps can be dismissed by flicking the card up in serie also accessed with the home button has a new transparent UI as well the camera application has to changed and be given a few more options like a one to one aspect ratio for taking pictures for Instagram as well as real-time filters and shooting mode but overall the camera app is very simplistic without a ton of built-in functionality all of the stock applications such as reminders calendar clock notes phone Safari context calculator in everything else has been flattened and streamlined with a new design language but there's a final point worth noting in all of these changes there is one thing that hasn't really been updated at all iOS sure it looks different but it's virtually the exact same operating system it has been all along with no new ground-breaking or inspiring features for some that's perfectly fine others however aren't satisfied with the purely cosmetic changes that's going to wrap this video up if you enjoyed it be sure to let us know by clicking the thumbs up button below and subscribe so you can see more iOS 7 and I phone coverage over the next couple of weeks and months you can find us on twitter facebook and google+ at pocket now you can find me on twitter at casper tech i'm taylor martin and i will see you next time