Hi everyone Aaron here for Zollotech and this past year just like every year apple released a new set
of iphones such as this iphone 13 pro max and in turn released along with it a new version of ios
and every year they release a new version of ios with the new iphones and there's increasing
concern that ios 15 and future versions of ios based off the ios 15 updates 15.1 15.2 and even
the betas that it's becoming increasingly less reliable and so there's quite a bit of concern but
i wanted to talk about how ios 15 and 16 will get better and maybe what we can expect in the future
so i thought we'd first start off by talking about what it was like in the past
i've used every version of ios and every beta version of ios since the original so here i have
a first generation iphone or what many people call iphone 2g it was before we had 3g connectivity and
it was very simple in fact it was less complex by a long way compared to what we have today and so
as you can see we don't even have a wallpaper if i lock the phone we have a wallpaper but we don't
have a wallpaper on the home screen so when it unlocks we've just got a simple black background
and we have things like music with cover flow so if we rotate it here we have cover flow we have
a simple way to access our music our web browser maybe weather and things looked a little different
as we were in the digital age things looked skeuomorphic as many people refer to it as where
they represent things in the real world to give us a way to move easily into the digital world
so again things like the ipod we were familiar with that so apple made the music symbol an ipod
the same is true with weather we have a little sun or camera and that looks familiar today as well
but everything from notes to youtube you can see the original youtube app and more
things were reliable they were dependable and very simple as we moved on to an iphone 4 and 4s
we had a little bit different complexity while not much changed as far as the overall
software the hardware was becoming better and better and with the software again we still
have things like newsstand but it's a shelf so you would expect something like that and again
with that skeuomorphic design if we go into maybe settings here you can see this is the last version
of ios that we can use 6.1.3 on this particular version and so this is basically the last version
that was available to the public until we had a huge change with ios 7. and so we still have the
skeuomorphic design we had apps like minecraft updated youtube apps google maps but still no
navigation too much unless google maps offered that later on but the music app had changed
and it had become increasingly feature packed but no less reliable in fact using this phone i don't
once remember when there were new updates thinking that it was a problem and are we going to have
less reliability will apps crash will things be less stable will i not be able to make a
phone call things like that were just not even in the thoughts of iphone users they were known
to be steady reliable get you through most of the day with your battery and just work
and they continued like that for quite some time but then we got ios 7 and ios 7 and while this is
not ios 7 ios 7 brought flat design as you can see here and it brought complexity to the overall os
it brought great things such as the control center where we could turn off bluetooth turn
it back on turn on wi-fi turn it off and quickly access settings so it brought new ideas to the os
and quicker ways to access different things as far as multitasking it brought the new card style to
it and with the older version multitasking was a bit different we didn't have true multitasking and
if you wanted to close an app you had to press and hold and then tap on that app to cloud to close it
so it was very different from what we had in the past but it was very unstable the early versions
of ios 7 were really nice to use but definitely a different change as far as reliability
and this particular version if we go into settings here you'll see it's nice and fast is on ios 9.3.2
and so this version i've kept around just to sort of keep things around to see what it was like but
everything from the itunes store to the app store had a different design very flat and over the
years apple moved that slowly back into a little bit more depth with the most recent version of ios
with ios 15. now ios 15 is okay for some people i'm currently running the major stable version
on my iphone 13 pro of ios 15.1.1 at the time of this video and i recently changed to it because
ios 15.2 betas were very unstable there were apps that weren't working things were crashing and it
was something that being a beta you sort of expect or it was worse than what i'd had in the past so
i moved over to the stable version until the next beta comes out so i can test that it was
something i found to be very unstable and so with the increase in complexity comes difficulty in
fixing issues now with the latest version of ios 15.1.1 apple specifically addressed issues that
were causing issues with dropping calls and this is something that you depend on your phone for
obviously but on iphone 12 and 13 series with the qualcomm modems they were dropping calls
and they patch that individually now ios 15 has been more buggy than many recent versions and
this is the first year that both my daughter and my wife have said there's problems with it that
it has poor battery life they're getting to the end of the day with either no battery life for
just 30 or 20 and this is unusual for them using iphone 12 pro and iphone 12. and so with that
typically i don't hear anything from either of them and they're very stable and they just
seem to work for them but lately things have been getting worse but i think we're going to have a
much better future however with ios 14 ios 15 apple introduced features at wwdc and then at
the launch of ios decided not to include them such as share play or screen sharing and just different
features that we expected digital id that we still don't have that's delayed into january or maybe
beyond that so there's features that apple has been working on and maybe it's been the difficulty
of working from home with collaborating being a little bit more difficult and not being able to
solve those issues together in the same room may make for extra difficulty i'm not sure i'm not a
programmer but those complexities with all the new features added on top of what they already have
just makes things more and more difficult to make stable over time if you change one thing
in the control center maybe add a feature it can affect something that you didn't expect altogether
and so solving the complexity of ios updates and more needs to be something apple gets back to
apple has always been known for great software and their software was always accompanied with
great designed hardware or really well-designed hardware such as the apple watch or the iphone or
other products in the past they have a few things that are a little bit goofy such as charging
the magic mouse but most of their designs are pretty solid and are something that most people
aspire to be able to either work on or create themselves but now their software is falling
behind and i think this means we're going to get better and better the reason i say this is with
betas we have a feedback app this means that every time someone submits feedback submits a crash
report there's a problem with ios or macos apple is aware of this apple is aware of these problems
on their iphone they use their phones themselves they know what's going on with them and there's
a point where they know they need to fix it that does take time to do of course but i think with
ios 15 i think we'll see it gain stability we've seen stability in the past come and go with ios 11
being something that was less stable ios 12 seemed to be very solid 13 was hit or miss at the end it
was great 14 again wasn't great until the end so this is something we've been seeing more and more
that i think apple will address with ios 15 and into ios 16. now with ios 16 i would hope that
while i would really like a redesign i think it's going to be a stability update where maybe we'll
get a different control center or maybe a refined control center that's been rumored for some time
maybe we'll get some icon changes but i would love to see them focus on stability this year not just
with ios but ipad os and mac os watch os seems to be the only one that seems to be more and more
solid over time but maybe that's because it's not as complex or it just could be a different team in
general but i really love ios and i've been using it since the beginning but i think apple could
really refine this it needs to be super reliable people on the android side that use that regularly
no longer have to think is ios more stable or is android more stable iphone is all about security
and reliability but with android it doesn't seem to be less stable in my use using a pixel or a
pixel 6 pro or any of the other recent iphone competitors basically the fold or the note they
seem to be fairly stable over time that's not the case for all manufacturers and all versions
but the most recent version of android 11 and then after the android 12 updates it seems to be as
stable as ios in my usage and i'm seeing different things online of people saying the same thing
so future versions of ios need to be more stable and i think this is what apple's going to do
i think it's going to be more reliable with minor refinements and once everything hopefully
gets back to normal i think we'll see great improvements with ios apple has really nailed
the hardware lately it's top-notch the latest hardware is great and it's hard to get much better
until they can maybe eliminate the notch or maybe the camera bump or just do something different in
general but the quality is there now we're just waiting for the software to catch up and i think
apple realizes this and we'll be moving on that soon but i would love to hear from you what you
think about this do you think apple's going to get better do you think it's going to get worse or do
you think apple should just redesign the whole thing overall that's a very complex task i doubt
we'll see that but with mac os it's been more and more refined over time now it just needs that
stability so we need that off year for stability let me know your thoughts on that in the comments
below of course if you'd like to get your hands on the wallpaper i have in this video that i have
on the 13 pro max i'll link it in the description like i normally do all of the other wallpapers are
actually from previous versions of ios so they're there on different devices so you should have
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