iOS 13 is now available to download, and if you’re reading this there’s a good chance you’ve already installed it. But if you haven’t, I encourage you to wait. You’ll need to turn off auto-updates in order to keep the install from …automatically updating, though. Barbara Krasnoff explains how to do that here.
You should wait because iOS 13.0 is buggy. Chaim Gartenberg has a review and it’s worth a read, but the headline has it right: iOS 13 review: dark mode, a new Photos app, and bugs.
In fact, Apple quietly pushed up the release date for iOS 13.1 and iPadOS to September 24th — it was originally slated for September 30th. That’s just four or five days from when you’re likely reading this, and well worth the wait. I’d actually recommend waiting longerthan five days to make sure iOS 13.1 fixes the various bugs in 13.0.
So the question on everybody’s mind is, well, why release iOS 13.0 at all if it’s only going to last four or five days? Reader, I have no idea. Is it somehow necessary for the successful retail release of the iPhone 11 and 11 Pro? Pride? A fanatical desire to meet public deadlines? A desire to ensure current customers don’t have too much FOMO? Did somebody just, like, accidentally hit “send” too soon?
There is one theory out there that Apple shipped a ton of iPhones out of China early to avoid Trump’s tariffs, and so all the iPhones in boxes had 13.0 — Charles Arthur over at OneZero laid out this idea earlier this month. This theory doesn’t explain why Apple needed to update current iPhones, though.
The only plausible theory I’ve seen is that the Apple Watch Series 5 is heading out to customers and it has watchOS 6 installed on it, and watchOS 6 requires iOS 13. So to prevent them from being fancy lozenge-shaped bricks for 5 days, Apple needed to get iOS 13.0 out the door. Credit to Jon Mitchell for pointing this out on Twitter.
Anyway, everything about this whole situation has the odor of a panicked rush to get everything out the door under deadline, and that smells like instability to me. See what the reaction to 13.1 is before updating. As Chaim says, there’s some neat stuff in iOS 13 but nothing so amazing that an extra week will ruin your month. I always advise people not to update the first day unless it’s a serious security update — but nobody ever listens to that advice (including me).
If you have updated, we have some tips for things that might be unfamiliar:
- You’ll see that there are a ton of apps asking to use Bluetooth on iOS 13. Before you grant it, you should know that this dialog is not about Bluetooth audio. It’s about using Bluetooth for other stuff, stuff that often involves location tracking via beacons. You can deny access and still get Bluetooth audio.
- App updates in the App Store are in a weird place, here’s where to find them.
- The new long-press behavior makes getting into the app-moving jiggly mode a little different, but Jay Peters can explain it to you.
- If you have WatchOS 6 installed, you can delete some Apple apps now — just go into the grid video of your apps with a force-touch and then long-press an app to get into jiggly mode.
- Have you noticed that the Apple Watch Series 5 kept force-touch while all the iPhones dropped it? Really makes ya think!
Source: The Verge
