As with every iOS update, we have a number of users who are quite reluctant to catapult their devices to the latest version available. I do not blame them, the catastrophes that Apple has been carrying out since iOS 7 until recently makes updating little less than a risky sport, however, as we were telling this last June, iOS 13 was coming to change everything (one more time). We have been using iOS 13 for more than a month, has this latest version of the operating system met expectations? Let's take a tour of all the reasons that lead us to decide on this matter.
iOS 13 has been working by Apple since last June 3, during WWDC 2019 we saw the first scraps of an operating system that It was finally coming to fulfill a promise that Tim Cook has been giving for quite some time, to focus on optimizing iOS. And this optimization is what gives the operating system its reputation for working 100% in sync with the hardware that houses the iPhone and iPad inside. It seems that for the first time in a long time, Tim Cook has indeed put a significant effort into this detail.
Few betas and many updates
Since we first installed the iOS 13 developer beta, we have been saying that we were surprised by the performance it was offering despite being still in very early stages of development. Nevertheless, We could imagine thanks to this that Apple was taking the programming of this operating system quite seriously, as well as the possibility that the performance is so good due to the few changes that we were going to undergo. How to forget that terrible summer we spent testing iOS 7 for all of you, I will never forgive you Apple.
However, soon the problems began, some of the functionalities that iOS had promised for iOS 13 began to mysteriously disappear with the launch of each new beta. This began to sow panic among users, as well as the strange deviation that the iPadOS betas began to suffer, whose final version was released a few weeks later than that of iOS 13, inexplicably. Above, To top it all, a few days after the official version of iOS 13 we started receiving a series of updates with few apparent reasons, so much so that iOS is already in its version 13.1.3 just over a month after its launch, did you remember something like that?
Many reasons to think that it is the best version
It didn't take long for a server to launch an article, long but concise, in which it gave the reasons you believed for claiming that iOS 13 is the best version of iOS Apple has ever released. In spite of everything and a month later, that opinion has hardly changed. iOS 13 has brought Apple users in general a lot of features that we had literally dreamed of for a long time, and it was hard to believe that Apple would bet on including them one day.
One of the most popular examples is being able to download files directly from Safari and manage them in the internal memory of the iPhone. Finally, the iPhone had an efficient, independent file manager that allowed us to do literally what we wanted. The dark mode has also been liked by many users, especially the most battery foodies, since the latest studies agree that using the dark mode on a regular basis yields a battery saving of approximately 30%, nothing more and nothing less. It is also important to mention that the redesign of applications has been light, and does not involve a trauma for the user.
- The battery consumption has remained stable, it does not get worse, as it has happened in other versions.
- We have numerous features such as advanced photo and video editing directly in the Photos app that many users strongly demanded.
- Some truisms like the swype keyboard or profile photos in Apple services that are now available, inexplicably did not exist before.
Another highly relevant aspect is iPadOS, This version of iOS for the iPad that is finally distinguished brings the universal use of keyboards and mice, as well as the characteristics inherent to iOS 13 but adapted to the iPad, with a redesign also of the Springboard, something that Apple did not dare to do since at least five years ago. Definitely iPadOS is one of the best news that iOS 13 brings and a strong argument to be able to say seriously (and not as before), that an iPad can effectively replace a PC.
But also many negative points
Once again Apple has distributed one of lime and another of sand, the first paragraph I want to make is in reference to sidecar, the system that allows us to expand the macOS desktop with an iPad. Great solution if you have a MacBook from 2016 onwards, an iPad from 2018 or an iPad Pro. Although many devices prior to these products are upgrades to macOS Catalina and iPadOS, they do not support this feature, why Apple? A little reminder of how the Cupertino company has been and will always be.
Another aspect that makes us doubt a lot about iOS 13 is the fact of the numerous updates that Apple has carried out since its launch, exposing the security team and especially the programmers ... why the rush? The changes in iOS 13 are relatively minor, but it seems that Apple has the engineers busy on Apple TV +, Apple Arcade and the rest of the services with those who intend to exploit the goose that lays the golden eggs.
For the rest, and in general terms, iOS 13 is giving good results except in exceptional cases where there have been errors typical of any update. Be that as it may, it is a good operating system, one of the best released by Apple in recent years, but It seems that in Cupertino iOS is no longer such a priority, and that can be a serious mistake.
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