Mobile Programming

Saturday, September 14, 2013

Beware of Updating Your Apple Device to iOS 7


Apple would soon be pushing software update of iOS 7 to general public in a week or so. Often it has been seen that users jump the gun, by updating their phone as soon as a release gets public. By a software testing firm has come out with a warning that users must avoid updating their phones at the moment as it would leave most of their application redundant. According to uTest, there would be a range of applications that would crash on iOS 7 as developers are yet in implement the new code in their applications. apple has already directed developers to update their applications to have iOS 7 compatibility. Although developers have already been updating their applications, still there are a plethora of applications that are yet to be updated to support iOS7.

Almost 90 percent of the applications tested by the firm had some trouble working on iOS 7. This is a great issue and need to be taken into account before updating the device. These trouble include inaccurate formatting of icons as well as text and even app crashing itself. Although there have been a range of updates forwarded by Apple, this time the issue is different.when users moved from iOS 4 to 5 to 6, the core functionality of iOS was same and there were not much aesthetics changes to the operating system. But in iOS 7 Apple has given the overall cosmetic change to the OS resulting in performance issues and UI rendering issues.