iOS 7 – ‘Be Prepared’
As the Scouts say ‘be prepared’ and today with the launch of the new iOS 7 upgrade for your iOS devices (if compatible), this is more important than ever. Whether your device is compatible or not is a key point actually, iOS 7 won’t run on the iPhone 3GS or earlier or the iPad 1 and some of the features will only work with the iPhone 5.
If you take a look at Everymac.com you’ll see a listing of the precise iOS 7 features supported by each device from the iPad 2 to 5th gen iPod Touch.
Perhaps the most important thing to do and remember is to BACK UP your device. It doesn’t matter how you do this, whether to iCloud or you computer, just make sure all those precious images and videos are safe.
There’s a very basic video below to show you how to do this, if you don’t already know.
Many apps are coming through now that have been updated to iOS 7 but some may not work, so be aware there maybe a few bugs until all the updates are approved.
Joanne Carter
Joanne Carter is a British photographer, photography journalist, editor and curator and the founder and editorial director of TheAppWhisperer.com, an independent international photography publication established in 2009.Her journalism, criticism and commentary have appeared in The Times, The Sunday Times, The Guardian, Financial Times, BBC, Vogue Italia, LensCulture, Popular Photography, Android Magazine, NikonPro, DPReview, Which Digital Camera and Which Camera. She has lectured internationally on photography and mobile art, served as a juror for international photography awards, and exhibited her own photographic work across the UK, Europe, South Korea and the United States.Alongside her editorial work, Joanne's photographic and postgraduate research explores death, grief, memory, representation and social inequality through contemporary photography, participatory practice and visual research methods, with the longer-term aim of developing this work through doctoral research.Through TheAppWhisperer, she continues to publish independent photography journalism spanning contemporary photographic practice, mobile imaging, photographic apps, computational photography and emerging imaging technologies.Joanne is available for editorial commissions, photography projects, judging, curatorial work, speaking engagements, consultancy and selected collaborations.
2 Comments
Carlos
Very important video! Thanks for sharing Joanne.
Robert Lancaster
I am loving iOS 7 on my iPad 2.
Have not experienced any issues yet.
All apps i have tried seem to be functioning ok.