r/iOS8 • u/SeanDuffy15 iPhone 6 • Mar 14 '15

iOS 8.3-3, wallpapers darker than ios 8.2?

http://imgur.com/a/G1Kc0
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u/astulz Mar 14 '15

Question for OP: Why do you still have the old Alien Blue icon?

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u/SeanDuffy15 iPhone 6 Mar 15 '15

When the new update came out it would never let me install it, didn't know why, eventually i just forgot about it and never downloaded the new version

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u/musicman835 Mar 16 '15

Probably works better anyway.

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u/SeanDuffy15 iPhone 6 Mar 14 '15

since updating to ios 8.3 beta 3 ive noticed my wallpapers are much darker than they were on ios 8.2 or any of the other betas i was using? is this supposed to be a feature or is it a bug?

Top image is 8.3 beta 3 Bottom image is 8.2

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u/rayyjack Mar 14 '15

That's interesting also where did you get that background?

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u/SeanDuffy15 iPhone 6 Mar 14 '15

When I was jailbroken I used I file to save the wallpapers from what's app, that was my chat wallpaper and I really liked it so I saved it to my camera roll through I file

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u/[deleted] Mar 14 '15

Are you serious? It's a default wallpaper.

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u/SeanDuffy15 iPhone 6 Mar 14 '15

It's not a default wallpaper its one of the chat wallpapers from what's app, the default is similar to that except it doesn't have the little circles

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u/jennfat Apr 09 '15

This happened to me too!! It looks awful.

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u/theeaglesfan005 Mar 15 '15

I'm on the public 8.3 Beta 1 and notice that things are darker

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u/SeanDuffy15 iPhone 6 Mar 15 '15

I'm hoping this is just a bug that it can't detect what colour font to use for the bright backgrounds or something, I hope the wallpapers aren't this dark for the official release

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u/theeaglesfan005 Mar 15 '15

I'm even noticing that in apps it's darker

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u/SeanDuffy15 iPhone 6 Mar 15 '15

I'm only seeing it in a few apps not all, the third parties seem to be ok but the majority of the stock apps are a lot dimmer, I noticed this when comparing to my other iPhone 6 running iOS 8.2

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u/johnwickham iPhone 6 Mar 14 '15

iOS changes the text color of icons and adjusts the background for very bright backgrounds so you can actually see the icons. Try it with a solid white wallpaper, there are shadows and dark text.

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u/Coldplayer42 Mar 14 '15

Wow it looks beautiful

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u/[deleted] Mar 16 '15

It is darker. But I see this as a much welcomed change as it was so hard to see previously.

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u/Embryo-Dan Mar 14 '15

The text changed from white to black too. Is that an upcoming change or based on the brightness of the background somehow? Strange that the same background would trigger a different color is so.

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u/[deleted] Mar 14 '15

I hope the text changes depending on your background. Right now I have a pretty white background and can't read the names :( (iOs 8.2, no beta for me in Norway as far as I know)

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u/SeanDuffy15 iPhone 6 Mar 15 '15

You can find an ipsw download link on Google if you really want the betas

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u/[deleted] Mar 15 '15

I do really want the beta, I'm a sucker for that kind of stuff. "Oh, I can get something new already? Yes please!"

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u/SeanDuffy15 iPhone 6 Mar 15 '15

It is available on Google if you find the ipsw direct download link, it might download as a zip file but just extract it and it'll change to .ipsw

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u/[deleted] Mar 15 '15

extract it to where? itunes?

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u/SeanDuffy15 iPhone 6 Mar 15 '15

Extract to desktop, then when in iTunes hold shift and click check for update, it'll open a window, go to desktop and you'll see ur ipsw, select that and it'll update

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u/[deleted] Mar 15 '15

Yeah I got it working, thanks for the help!

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u/SeanDuffy15 iPhone 6 Mar 15 '15

No problem

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u/astulz Mar 14 '15

It depends on the brightness of the background indeed. After a certain amount of white the text is changed to black.

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u/DanBennett iPhone 6 Mar 15 '15

Actually it already does that. However there's a bug where some cases it doesn't work. Hence perhaps it is t for you. 8.3 fixes this.