After a couple of hours updating my phone, finally i can start checking if it's true that Apple’s latest iPhone and iPad software promises better battery life, real multitasking, improved Siri and Google Now-like features.
Ok, there is nothing really new in this update, It looks and behaves just like iOS 8, a couple of buttons and shortcuts are new, the type face had changed. The whole operating system uses a new San Francisco typeface instead of the traditional Helvetica at original settings. But you can change that.
A positive thing and something that is really updated is that Notifications within the pull-down Notifications Centre are now in chronological order too, something that i was wondering when its going to come, with iOS 9, which is much better, and can be cleared individually or by the day, but there’s still no “clear all” button, They miss that.
“One of the bigger visual changes is within the recently used apps switcher. Double pressing the home button brings up cards that are bigger, so you can more easily see what’s going on before tapping into an app, while location-based apps or apps that have been triggered from a Mac or iPad using “hand-off” are there too – an obvious improvement.
A couple of Apple’s apps have been improved too. The Notes app now supports drawing and photo insertion, though only if you use an iCloud account to sync them.
Apple Maps also has public-transport directions, but is still not as good as rivals Google Maps or Citymapper. The phone app will try and identify unknown callers from your email, or give a rough location based on the number, which it did for me as it could never find the number in an email for anyone who wasn’t a contact.
The Apple keyboard is also much easier to use now that the keys are not always capped up. Pressing the shift key raises or lowers the case of the keys so that it is much easier to see whether you’re about to punch in a capital or lowercase letter. Swiftkey and others have had this feature since iOS 8’s launch.
The keyboard will also display cut, paste and text formatting keys in some apps, which are useful – although the iPhone often needs to be in landscape orientation for them to show up.
The biggest feature addition for iOS 9 is Siri’s new “Proactive”, which is essentially Apple’s take on Google Now.
A pane accessible by swiping right on the homescreen, iOS 9 displays Siri’s suggestions of people you might want to contact and apps you might want to use at that particular time or location.
The big change in iOS 9 for the iPad is the introduction of true multitasking. All iPads from the iPad Air and iPad Mini 2 and up will get “Picture in Picture”, which displays video as an overlay. Handy, but common to TVs since the 1990s.
Slide Over also allows quick access to another app such as Twitter while in Safari, for instance. It slides over from the right and sits there until you’re done using it and go back to the app it is partially covering.
On the iPad Air 2, and the forthcoming iPad Mini 4 or iPad Pro only, Split View places two active apps side-by-side on one screen. Each app can be given more or less of the screen with a slider in the middle. It works precisely like Windows 8’s side-by-side app view or Samsung’s multi-window – handy for when you’re trying to watch a live blog or stream and want to keep an eye on Twitter, for instance.
Apple promised better battery life with iOS 9. I’ve barely noticed any change, but at least it isn’t worse. A low power mode is available, which claims to add three hours to the battery life by shutting off push and email fetching, automatic downloads and reducing the performance of the processor, but seemed to do little when I activated it when low on battery. Your milage may vary.”
This is a summary of the original review made it by The Guardian. With i complete agreed. You can read the final veridic on the review following this link: http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/sep/15/apple-ios-9-review-iphone-ipad-software-better-battery-life-multitasking-siri
This is a summary of the original review made it by The Guardian. With i complete agreed. You can read the final veridic on the review following this link: http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/sep/15/apple-ios-9-review-iphone-ipad-software-better-battery-life-multitasking-siri
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