Even allowing for social media hysteria, the reports are bad.
Is it as bad as reported?
Are their benefits?
Can I skip and wait til the next one which might at least fix some of the most resented flaws?
I’m wary about the latest iphone update
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https://www.wired.com/story/phone-updates-used-to-be-annoying-the-latest-ios-is-awful/
Mine buggered up my email settings, but apart from that seems to be alright. I don’t do much with it, though.
Complete nonsense clickbait article. If you don’t like the liquid glass look you can turn it off and the update has made no difference whatsoever to the speed of anything on my phone.
I should add that the article I linked to isn’t my sole reference. The complaints are widespread but I’m glad you haven’t had problems Ainsley.
i read there is a pretty funky Call screening function.
@ainsley
You can? I think I’d like to
Go to Settings > Accessibility > Display & Text Size > Reduce Transparency and toggle it on. This makes menus and toolbars opaque
TBF I don’t think this turns it off completely but it does tone it down dramatically.
Ta. I’ve just asked a young person who works in IT and they’ve done it completely. Something to do with the wallpaper apparently or something. I wasn’t paying attention, I just wanted it back to how it was!
Thanks @Ainsley.
I really didn’t like that new look.
All fine for me. The call screen feature is a good addition, although it would be nice if it could be turned on/off at the tap of a virtual button (a bit like Airplane mode.)
I’m bewildered by the article, honestly…
Maybe I shouldn’t have posted it, it was one of the first that came up for me to cite as the sort of blow back happening. But again it’s not the sole source.
All fine here on iPhone and iPad.
well I did it.
Screen seems cleaner, sharper, everything ticketyboo so far.
Either it’s a fixed up update or don’t believe what you read, or both.
It has garnered more comment because it is the biggest overhaul of the look and feel of the SW. On the whole, it’s much better but there are some niggles that you can either grow to love or switch back. The main one for me was the move of Safari tabs and info to the top. It can easily be moved back to the bottom in Settibgs/Apps/Safari and scrolling to the Tabs section. The rest is pretty good but I turned off a bunch of stuff to save battery use.
Thanks @Leedsboy.
You and Ainsley have both, in ways that are difficult to quantity, given me great pleasure in allowing me to revert back to screen appearances and setups that I like.
👍
Didn’t notice any difference myself with last update unless the issues on this site are related to it
I don’t like the latest update but it’s nowhere near as bad as that article makes out. Liquid glass is annoying and unnecessary but at least you can turn it off, sort of. I recently invested in an iPhone 16 and was surprised at how much longer a battery charge lasts.
The batteries in brand new phones always last longer than in old phones. Even with all the battery-saving stuff that is in modern phones. They age with all the charging and discharging and their performance deteriorates.
Battery technology has been improving, so more powerful batteries are smaller and cheaper than before. And software bloat, as operating systems turn into service ecosystems, requires ever more battery power.
I found it drained the battery. Apple claimed it would settle down after “re-indexing”. It didn’t. The call screening set itself to “on” which I was unaware of and as a consequence I missed a delivery call for a £1500 laptop. I lost the will to live when each new OS update required me to dump all my podcast and photos and playlists due to needing so much memory.
I moved to Android and have cheered up.
I have found that a few glitches that have come up have been rectified. Like some sort of corruption has been rectified.
After turning the phone back on with Face ID or the passcode, mine seems to go blank for a couple of seconds which it never did before. I like the transparent effect and episodes in Podcasts are a good innovation. The scanner in Preview seems useful, but I’m not too keen on the tabs/bookmarks in Safari.
Going blank for a couple of seconds suggests that something is hogging the device’s memory as it gets loaded. Not good.