For someone who relies on the iPad for work purposes, the first few months of iOS 7 were rough: in spite of Apple’s initial bug fix updates, I kept getting Home screen crashes, random reboots, hard resets, BSoDs, and, generally speaking, a bevy of graphical glitches that were new to iOS – traditionally, a highly polished and stable platform. IOS 8 has completely changed how I work on my iPhone and iPad.Ī year after iOS 7, I would say that it hasn’t been a perfectly smooth transition, but, at least for me, it’s hard to look back at what iOS used to be and miss it.įollowing the launch of iOS 7, it became clear that Apple hadn’t had much time to optimize the OS for a bug-free experience that also needed to perform reasonably well on older hardware. But, today, I want to elaborate on my experience with iOS 8 in a story that can be summed up with: Seven years into iOS, a new beginning is afoot for Apple’s mobile OS, and, months from now, there will still be plenty to discuss.
There are hundreds of new features in iOS 8 and the ecosystem surrounding it that signal a far-reaching reimagination of what iOS apps should be capable of, the extent of user customization on an iPhone and iPad, or the amount of usage data that app developers can collect to craft better software. Custom keyboards and interactive notifications. Swift and TestFlight, giving developers new tools to build and test their apps. How status awareness is being brought to iPhones, iPads, and Macs with Handoff and Continuity. The way apps communicate with each other and exchange functionality through extensions. They’re also not backtracking on the design language launched last year, which has been refined and optimized with subtle tweaks, but not fundamentally changed since its debut in June 2013.Īpple is reinventing iOS. With today’s release of iOS 8, Apple isn’t merely improving upon iOS 7 with minor app updates and feature additions. I noted that a new structure enabled developers to make more powerful apps, and I concluded hoping that Apple would “consider revamping interoperability and communication between apps in the future”. When I reviewed iOS 7 last year, I took a different approach and tried to consider Apple’s redesigned OS from the perspective of someone who uses iPhones and iPads for work and personal tasks on a daily basis.
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