![]() ![]() Yes, there are new folder animations – but you’ll get used to those in minutes. That in itself is the lasting change brought by iOS 10. That subtly changes the way you use iOS in a way that no previous update has managed – and once the top app developers start using the new widgets to the fullest, the transformation will become even more obvious. You can – albeit with a load of compromises – use your iPhone while it’s locked, and get a load of information from your apps via 3D Touch alone. Until iOS 10, it was the single biggest difference between the Android and Apple experiences.īut iOS 10’s combination of a redesigned Today screen, 3D notifications and the new 3D Touch widgets pushes the long-standing Apple home screens subtly but firmly to the background. ![]() You should, they argue, be able to arrange your home screens any way you want – from placing icons in any position, to using the screen space for more detailed information from those apps. Apple News, for example, offers the top news story alongside the traditional 3D Touch action menu, the whole widget runs to near the full width of your screen.Īndroid users have always accused iOS of inflexibility. That 3D Touch-ability extends to lock screen notifications too, but don’t worry: if you’re worried about prying eyes, you can turn those previews off in Settings.ģD Touch a native Apple app icon and a completely new, more graphical widget appears. Notifications from native Apple apps now show mini content previews within their 3D Touch panels. Now swipe down from the top of the home screen to see all of your notifications, and discover that you can swipe left to the newly whitened Today screen. When a new message or mail notification arrives, you get more widgety, rounded white panels. The iOS 9 Today screen’s semi-transparent dark blocks are gone, replaced by rounded clusters of semi-transparent white widgets. Swipe left from the ‘new’ home screen, and… woah… white panels. Keep digging, though, and it will stop being quite so iOS and become… well, ever-so-slightly Android. It’s iOS as it was, and as it probably always will be. You still swipe left and right between home screens, hold-and-drag to move apps and tap the little cross to delete them… you get the picture. The grid of app icons that filled the screen of the first iPhone is still there. Unless you’re a hardcore interface fetishist (and who isn’t?), your first minutes with iOS 10 may leave you wondering what all the fuss is about. It’s sprightly throughout, not just with a few select actions – the new animation for opening a folder, for example, is as silky smooth as the swipe between the two Control Centre panels. But we have been running the iOS 10 beta on an iPhone 6s Plus for a few months now.Īnd while the early betas were decidedly sluggish on our Plus, the final release is easily as fast as iOS 9. Admittedly, we haven’t tried iOS 10 on something as old as a 5 or 5c. We reckon that a four-year commitment is more than reasonable, especially since most people now switch handsets with their contracts every 12 to 24 months. If you’re still walking the streets with an iPhone 4, you’re out of luck – the oldest iPhone supported by iOS 10 is a 5, whilst the oldest iPad is a 4th Gen (both devices were announced in September 2012). In the case of Apple, the answer’s more straightforward: four years. ![]() If you check the major Android handset makers’ support pages today, you’ll find few commitments to update hardware older than a year or two to 7.0 Nougat. Back in January, Google announced that there would be no new security patches for versions of Android prior to 4.3 (released mid-2012). If you’re an Android user, the answer seems to be between two and four years. How long should you expect your mobile OS to support your hardware? Will an older iPhone or iPad handle iOS 10? ![]()
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