Plus I kept accidentally hitting it when holding my phone.
I can see the appeal, but I couldn’t get used to it. Plus, now you can just swipe left or right on the bar to move between your open tabs.
The idea is that we no longer have to Stretch Armstrong our thumbs to reach. (It drove me mad.) In the Safari browser, Apple moved the address bar from the top of the screen to the bottom.Īpple's moved the Safari address bar to the bottom, at left. There is one drastic design change that may drive you mad. (The software is available for the iPhone 6S and later models-and even that old iPhone SE.) I’ve seen some small bugs here and there while testing on an iPhone 12 Pro. If you can, hold off a few days, at least until any potential issues have been fixed. But before we get going, my annual iOS advice hasn’t changed: Walk, don’t run, to upgrade. That is, if you can find them.Īfter a month of testing the new software, I’m prepared to help you spot the biggest changes and, of course, share my unfiltered opinion of them. It includes tools and settings, like Focus mode and Live Text, that will make your phone more personalized, organized and modernized. This isn’t a massive visual overhaul like in years past-just some restyling to notifications and other small design tweaks.
