

Supported devices and feature fragmentationīefore we dig in, let’s talk about installation. Our in-depth review explores every nook and cranny of the new operating system to show you which additions actually improve iOS, and which ones are only skin deep.

It adds a few new features and changes some existing ones, but this doesn't radically alter the way that you use the OS from day to day. In another sense, iOS 7 is the latest in a string of incremental updates. A couple of wallpapers have made the jump, but otherwise you'd be hard-pressed to find anything in iOS 7 that looks quite like it did in iOS 6. In one sense, iOS 7 changes nearly everything about iOS. Today we're looking at the result of that switch. Craig Federighi and Jony Ive, the Apple senior vice presidents in charge of OS X and hardware design, respectively, stepped in to fill his shoes. iOS 6 had barely been out for a month before Scott Forstall, the exec who led the iOS team for as long as there had been an iOS team, left (or was ejected from) the company.

Gallery: iOS 6 and iOS 7 compared in picturesīoy, did we get one.
