In the Veteran Day spirit, I downloaded the latest software update for the iPhone despite complaints of some of my friends who got it. After I passed the typical configuration steps, the new layout both irked me and pleased me, in different ways. For one, I was glad to finally be able to delete the useless applications, Tips and Podcasts, which I don't use. It was surprising to see the delete button available for me to click for them. This really helped clean my screen. Unfortunately, Health and Wallet are still indestructible. Another plus for me is a new application that was added, called News. I subscribed myself to a bunch of newspapers through email, but this app keeps them all in one place, and shows me newspapers that I have never heard of before. I think it will be a very useful application to have around.
Some negatives will have to be the design elements. In iMessage, the bar for texting looks absolutely hideous. If you tap on the camera icon, the space looks cramped. I dislike the fact that you have to slide the screen to the right and click more buttons if you want a larger camera screen or photo library, because I am not one to use that in-a-rush first menu. Although I appreciate the new drawing tool that Apple added, I still don't like the appearance of everything there. In addition, the Send button is now an arrow and shows up only when you type something. Yuck.
What is wrong with my clocks? Well, they no longer look like clocks! The Clock application has stopped allowing a clock to come up when you tap on the time. And now there is an ugly green button in the Timer section. One thing that I will compliment the Apple team for adding is a Sleep section that provides you with an alarm that wakes you up in the mornings. Setting your Sleep program requires more than just the time that you want to wake up though. You have to answer questions about what days you want to be woken up at that time, how many hours of sleep do you want, and more. It is pretty cool, though I won't use it.
Jump into your inbox and find that nothing has changed! Just joking. Now apparently you can filter your emails. Which I believe is great!
On the other hand, we have the Photo application. It was bad enough that there was a Collections section, but now there are automatic photo albums that cannot be removed no matter how much I will them to. I mean, who would want an album specifically for Selfies? Or screen shots? Not me, at least. Well, the latter one might be convenient.
When you go and wake up your phone, you now have to tap the home button twice in order for the password screen to pop up. That is really annoying, especially when I am accustomed to just swiping. And getting to the dashboard is the most important part for me, so I am annoyed that I have to get used to this new component of my phone.
One small part of me hoped that by updating my phone, the problem with my contacts rising from the dead in multiples will stop. This started happening a while back. Contacts that I deleted more than six months ago would suddenly reappear in sevens, along with a bunch of contacts with no name, like ghosts. I would go from having forty contacts to more than ninety. Well, no dice. After spending precious minutes of my life just earlier today deleting all of my extra contacts, I updated my phone and checked my Phone application to find that they had come back. Again. Sigh. The worst part about it is how long it takes to delete one contact.
Of course, I did not check all of my applications so there might be more benefits, but from what I saw, I will opine that the update has a lot of bad design choices (ex. roundness).
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