hi everyone Aaron here for ZolloTech & iOS is about to get a revamp to iOS 13
in June at the worldwide developer conference and then a final release in
September and they may not call it iOS 13 but whatever it's called we should
see some major revisions and I wanted to take a look back at an older version on
the iPhone 4s and the current version on the iPhone XS Max and see how they
compare and talk about what we can expect with the next one so with the 4s
let me flip it over here I'm running iOS 6.1.3 we'll unlock it and will unlock
the XS Max of course that design right there is much easier on the XS Max not
having to put in your passcode this one doesn't even have touch ID so we've come
a long way as far as that goes but the overall design language is basically the
same we have the grid layout and the apps look very familiar
however they have a different feel to them and that's because the iPhone 4s or
iOS 6 and earlier used more of a skew morphic organic design to sort of convey
something that was not as familiar as what we have today with smartphones so
if you take a look at this if I pull down notifications you'll see that the
notification drawer has a linen look to it the same is true of other locations
within the apps we've got this one here so it's kind of the context is it's an
app within that window if we take a look at weather today even though the
information is not the same for some reason this is the weather channel this
is Yahoo weather for whatever reason they're not the same but they're the
look of them is both pretty good it's just which design language you prefer
most and some people really like the old one I still like this one a little bit
better now either way it doesn't matter they both get the job done but things
like the App Store will go into it is very different and I like this App Store
better so they've made some changes along the way over the years you'll see
there's top charts here and they're loading and it's still very fast and
fluid and most people remember the iPhone of the older iPhones with iOS 6
and earlier as being very stable with a good battery life in fact at this time
the battery life on iPhones easily outpaced that of Android unless they had
a massive battery in them so things like the
settings there is no battery setting like we have today in this one to see
what the battery health and all that it is
but battery life would easily get you through a day once we got to the four s
however it wasn't as good as things as people remember like we can get easily
through all day and sometimes a day and a half or more with something like the
XS Max the screen obviously is going to use more power but overall this was
incredibly stable especially in its 6th revision and since we're six years later
with this one we're pretty much stable but not anywhere near what this was in
my opinion this is more stable but it doesn't do as much either
so the speed of it is still pretty impressive so again you saw open the App
Store and it's kind of the same as far as that goes the same goes with weather
let's open a web browser see what happens here
and we'll scroll scrolling is smooth on both we can pinch to zoom I guess I
can't on my website but you can pinch to zoom on them and the overall feel is
nice and fast and Apple has controlled the speed of animations on the new ones
so it doesn't necessarily mean it's slower here it's just got similar
animations so we'll open the camera you'll see we're already quickly here
but it's not that far behind here which is really impressive for the day and
then again if we go into something like iTunes see it comes right up and it's
pretty fast some of that has to do with the Wi-Fi capability here not being as
fast as say what we have here and there's a little bit of stutter but
stability overall was great the task management has changed greatly though if
we go here you'll see that's how we managed it before tap and hold and then
close your different apps if you want to do that one by one you still do it here
today with this but you just swipe them off and it's easier now there's a few
things I miss on the old OS if I was to use this regularly and that has to do
with airdrop airdrop is something that I use constantly I use it every single day
for example when I want to share something share something from my phone
to my Mac and back and forth or to an iPad or to another phone I use that all
the time and with the older version of iOS it's just not there you can't swipe
up there's not the same control over the OS now also I miss 3d touch which I know
a lot of people don't really care about but it's something I use
regularly and then also things I miss on the old version are things like cover
flow and things like that with the photos let's see if we can go to the
camera roll there's not a whole lot here but if I go in the camera roll the
camera roll just when you had that pinch on the iPad I don't have an example of
that when you had the pinch on the iPad where you could go into the different
albums that's something I really thought was kind of meat on the iPad itself and
then of course if you go here and then rotate it's just very fast still and
feels much more fluid most of the time on here than it does on here but this is
a little bit faster in most things and of course has all the modern apps that
we don't get elsewhere if we go here into the clock you'll see everything
just opens nice and fast and it just has a little bit different design language
so the alarm stopwatch or bedtime on this one
stopwatch and timer they're all very familiar but this one I just there's
something about it that I miss I don't know about you but I'd love to hear what
you think about that now let's talk about what's next what's next is
probably a dark mode so I know a lot of people are looking forward to that
they want a dark mode throughout the OS that'll save battery on all that
displays and then also other people are going to want split screen multitasking
that would be nice watch a video up here and then down here maybe you're you were
doing something else checking email things like that and then beyond that a
full redesign to the icons and maybe we can put the icons where we want I think
we're at a maturity level where you're not going to see any major revisions at
this point just improvements to efficiency and ease of use but the
hardware is just very solid in this old one it was nice and easy to change the
battery not so much to change the screen but everything's nice and solid and I
think we'll see this squared off edge in future iPhones since they did that with
the iPads it's something I miss it's easier to hold on to and feels more
solid over time let me know what you think do you think we've kind of reached
maturity is it sort of like the other video I made with the iPhone design is
it kind of at a level where it just is what it is and it's going to improve
incrementally at this point or do you think we'll see some major changes with
the next version of iOS what do you think in the comments below I almost
wish they go back to this we had drop shadows and a little bit
more organic look maybe we'll get something in between it's hard to say
but the totally flat design is not something I was over a huge fan of I
think it's okay but some of the icons such as photos I like but some of the
others I don't like at all so it just depends which one we're talking about
and of course we've got more features than the new one I think they did a nice
job on the new App Store though and I definitely welcome that design let me
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