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I believe the Date Picker is something Apple will fix for sure. It's just not their style and culture to do things difficult for the user.

However, there's one major pain I got with the new UI I'd like to share. The new passcode lock screen is also much different than before, and this for me was a BIG problem at the beginning.

Surprisingly when I saw the passcode screen for the first time in iOS7 I absolutely forgot which was my code and therefore I could not unlock the phone. Try after try the phone puts it more difficult for you to enter new code combinations by not letting you try again after failed attempts. So I had an unusable phone for many hours in a row. I was in anger, how could I have forgot a that?

I discovered that the passcode code was something I had buried in my subconscious. Before the upgrade, I could type the code even when I was completely asleep at 3AM in the morning without even thinking, never failed in all this years.

Typing the code was a sort of reflex action for me. But the different lock screen UI made me absolutely impossible to perform it again. The code was not in my memory.

After several tries, and several hours, I met with my wife and she told me my own code so I could finally regain access to my phone.

Now the pin code is back to my memory and not my subconscious.

Anyone else had this sort of problem?



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