{"id":22193,"date":"2013-09-20T06:59:38","date_gmt":"2013-09-20T11:59:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=22193"},"modified":"2013-09-20T07:00:22","modified_gmt":"2013-09-20T12:00:22","slug":"a-few-setting-changes-for-more-annoying-ios-7-features","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2013\/09\/20\/a-few-setting-changes-for-more-annoying-ios-7-features\/","title":{"rendered":"A few setting changes for more annoying iOS 7 features"},"content":{"rendered":"

I haven’t yet upgraded my iPhone to the latest OS — I don’t want to be one of the doughty pioneers who discovers new bugs on my own phone — but many others have already made the plunge. While I’m sure some of the new features are great, there are bound to be some changes which are less-than-stellar. In the Telegraph<\/em>, Richard Gray<\/a> has a few things you might want to change:<\/p>\n

Contacts names on text messages<\/strong><\/p>\n

On the locked screen, messages flash up with the contacts name and a fragment of their message. However, in the new iOS, the message no long displays their full name by default.<\/p>\n

Instead it will only show their first name. While this may feel friendlier, for anyone with more than one David or John in their contacts book, it will be confusing.<\/p>\n

To restore formality back to your world, access Settings<\/em><\/strong>, select Mail<\/em><\/strong>, Contacts<\/em><\/strong>, Calendars<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Then under the Contacts<\/em><\/strong> section, select Short Name<\/em><\/strong> and then select the option you prefer — First & Last Name<\/strong>, First Initial & Last Name<\/strong> or just if you are the public school sort, pick Last Name Only<\/strong>. <\/p>\n

Control Centre while using an App<\/strong><\/p>\n

The new look control centre is designed to be easy to access — simply swipe up from the bottom of the screen and the frosted-glass effect pane will appear. <\/p>\n

Great. Unless of course you are using an app or playing a game that requires just such an action, like the hugely popular Temple Run<\/em> — then up pops the control centre exactly when you don\u2019t want it.<\/p>\n

Fortunately it is possible to turn this off so the control centre will not open when you are using apps.<\/p>\n

Access Settings<\/em><\/strong> and then select Control Centre<\/em><\/strong>. Turn off Access with Apps<\/em><\/strong> and no longer will the Control Centre intrude upon your App using experience. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

H\/T to Nicholas Packwood for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I haven’t yet upgraded my iPhone to the latest OS — I don’t want to be one of the doughty pioneers who discovers new bugs on my own phone — but many others have already made the plunge. While I’m sure some of the new features are great, there are bound to be some changes […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[160,27],"class_list":["post-22193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-apple","tag-iphone"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-5LX","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22193"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22196,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22193\/revisions\/22196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}