With the new iPhone 5 released and selling like hot cakes, and iphones in general being so popular due to their ease of use and reasonable quality etc. it time to think about upgrading the opperating system on older versions of the Iphone.
DON'T ! . . . . Read this first:
WARNING: DO NOT "UPGRADE" YOUR IOS TO V6
I have an iPhone 4S (so does my other half), an iPad, and use Mac computers. It's a complete ecosystem, and it all "just works" together. I made the switch from PCs and Windows about 4 years ago and haven't looked back.
However, in a moment of madness, I upgraded my iPhone from iOS 5.1.1 to the new iOS 6 a couple of days ago. Well, what a disaster..!!
First - all sorts of problems with WiFi. Initially wouldn't connect to WiFi at all, but that was due to a problem at Apple's end - apparently when the phone connects to ANY WiFi, it pings an Apple server to confirm that it is connected and online. I didn't know that. And the Apple server in question was down. They fixed that, but the iOS 6 problems continued, with the phone simply disconnecting from WiFi randomly - never had that problem with iOS 5, and I'm talking about sitting 1 metre away from the wireless router, not on the edge of the signal somewhere.
Then there is the problem of the maps! Wow..! Why the hell did Apple do this? Google maps, which have been on iOS devices from the start, have years of experience, data, search smarts, details, Street View, etc etc. And they were easy on the eye. The new Apple Maps has NONE of that - it is bland beyond belief with an almost monochrome map view that is hard to read, is very slow to load the tiles of the maps, satellite view is awful - fuzzy and slow - search fails to find what you're looking for more than half the time (eg you have to put "Smith Brothers" not Smith Bros, also searching for "London" will give you London, Ontario, etc). Cities, landmarks, can appear WAY off from where they really are. There is NO street view. There is NO public transport information. The list goes on.
Yes, it has fancy schmancy 3D flyovers of many US cities (really useful - not!) - the only Aussie one is Sydney. Yes it has turn-by-turn directions like a Tom Tom - but it is wildly inaccurate outside the major US cities. In short - Apple Maps are completely useless.
They also got rid of the YouTube app (because it is also a Google app). Apple having fallen out with Google is NOT a good thing for either Google or Apple devotees or users.
SO - after doing some investigoogling - I downgraded back to iOS 5.1.1
Happy again - I have Google Maps back, YouTube, WiFi works again, etc etc.
It was a bit risky, and took a long time to restore all my apps, music, photos, etc from a backup, but it all worked, and now I'm not going to go to iOS 6 until Google have their Maps app approved by the App Store, and until Apple have sorted out the WiFi problems.
BOTTOM LINE: DO NOT "UPGRADE" YOUR IOS TO V6
DON'T ! . . . . Read this first:
WARNING: DO NOT "UPGRADE" YOUR IOS TO V6
I have an iPhone 4S (so does my other half), an iPad, and use Mac computers. It's a complete ecosystem, and it all "just works" together. I made the switch from PCs and Windows about 4 years ago and haven't looked back.
However, in a moment of madness, I upgraded my iPhone from iOS 5.1.1 to the new iOS 6 a couple of days ago. Well, what a disaster..!!
First - all sorts of problems with WiFi. Initially wouldn't connect to WiFi at all, but that was due to a problem at Apple's end - apparently when the phone connects to ANY WiFi, it pings an Apple server to confirm that it is connected and online. I didn't know that. And the Apple server in question was down. They fixed that, but the iOS 6 problems continued, with the phone simply disconnecting from WiFi randomly - never had that problem with iOS 5, and I'm talking about sitting 1 metre away from the wireless router, not on the edge of the signal somewhere.
Then there is the problem of the maps! Wow..! Why the hell did Apple do this? Google maps, which have been on iOS devices from the start, have years of experience, data, search smarts, details, Street View, etc etc. And they were easy on the eye. The new Apple Maps has NONE of that - it is bland beyond belief with an almost monochrome map view that is hard to read, is very slow to load the tiles of the maps, satellite view is awful - fuzzy and slow - search fails to find what you're looking for more than half the time (eg you have to put "Smith Brothers" not Smith Bros, also searching for "London" will give you London, Ontario, etc). Cities, landmarks, can appear WAY off from where they really are. There is NO street view. There is NO public transport information. The list goes on.
Yes, it has fancy schmancy 3D flyovers of many US cities (really useful - not!) - the only Aussie one is Sydney. Yes it has turn-by-turn directions like a Tom Tom - but it is wildly inaccurate outside the major US cities. In short - Apple Maps are completely useless.
They also got rid of the YouTube app (because it is also a Google app). Apple having fallen out with Google is NOT a good thing for either Google or Apple devotees or users.
SO - after doing some investigoogling - I downgraded back to iOS 5.1.1
Happy again - I have Google Maps back, YouTube, WiFi works again, etc etc.
It was a bit risky, and took a long time to restore all my apps, music, photos, etc from a backup, but it all worked, and now I'm not going to go to iOS 6 until Google have their Maps app approved by the App Store, and until Apple have sorted out the WiFi problems.
BOTTOM LINE: DO NOT "UPGRADE" YOUR IOS TO V6