

Two devices that supported iOS 6 have been dropped by iOS 7: the iPhone 3GS and the fourth-generation iPod touch. The iPad 2, third- and fourth-generation iPads, and the iPad mini.

The full list of devices that support iOS 7 reads as follows: Advertisement For the purposes of this review, we’ll be omitting any iOS features unique to the iPhone 5C and 5S (don’t worry-they’ll each be getting their own reviews soon) and focusing entirely on the devices that are in your hands right now. 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.
