Is iOS 7 really what it was cracked up to be?

It’s finally here. After many months of hype and hysteria iOS 7 has finally hit the world this past Wednesday. But is it really worth the download? First off the update takes half a lifetime to download. If that wasn’t bad enough, you need 2.9 gigs of space left on your apple device. This may not seem like an overly large amount, but when u only own the 8 gig variety (like me), it’s pretty tough deleting a large selection of songs or apps. On top of all that, if you weren’t connected to a source of Wi-Fi or your battery wasn’t above 50% it wouldn’t even start. After your done waiting for half a century, and you see that shiny white apple logo startup screen you know it’s done.

 Now after hearing the tedium and unreliable nature of actually receiving the download, you would think that the changes would be good. And I am happy to say that for the most part they are. Now apple has been around in the market for about 7-8 years now, and even though some features have changed over time, the chunk of what made apple who they are stayed relatively the same. But we were promised the largest and most innovative update yet. With iOS 7 came several new features including iTunes radio, the control center, automatic updating, dynamic wallpapers, airdrop (which the android phones have had for a while now), and large visual updates to the apps and the screens themselves. On the whole, I think this update was a good one for apple. The new features are nice, with control center centralizing many well used features that were once restricted to the settings button to just a down swipe. All in all the new features added in this update were very useful and have almost no drawbacks. The visual update is nice, featuring new art for all the apps, lock screen, home screen, and many other small details. Everything is clean and crisp, running and transitionalizing smoothly from app to app.

Now with every good side there’s a bad one as well. While the new visual and add ons are good and pleasing, there are some changes that come with that. The battery life of the device has been hit and for some hard. With this newest update you’ll soon find out that your battery will be draining even faster than before. Unfortunately, if don’t own at least an iPhone 4, you won’t be receiving this update. Even if you do own a 4 or 4s you’re still missing out on a few of the newer features, but this should persuade you from not getting it.

All in all the iOS7 update brought a few drastic changes and while some of the will stand out among the others, all are an improvement from the original design. If you can get past the slower than sloth loading speed and the faster battery consumption, this update will fill and improve all of your apple related needs.