Tuesday, October 13, 2020

IpadOS and iOS 14, to update or not to update, that is the question!

It's that most wonderful time of the year again!! iOS Update Season!  OH JOY!! I can hardly contain myself!  Let me state my background for updates, I am a Luddite. My PC is running Windows 3.1!!  KIDDING.  Honestly, I do become gun-shy about updates.  I know that they improve the security, the experience, etc, yet I have seen so many times that my staff has done it on older machines and all heck breaks loose:  Important apps no longer work, the device chugs along at the speed of sail.  So I have complied some info on this subject.

Why I should not update to iOS/iPadOS 14 yet, as of Sept 16, 2020, from David Price, Editor of Macworld UK. “There are few downsides to upgrading, and I happily allow them to install automatically when available. Occasionally, however, it's worth advising caution, and turning off auto updates for a short while. And it looks like iOS 14 comes under that category.

Apple didn't manage to spring many surprises at its 15 September Time Flies event, but its announcement that iOS 14 would roll out the very next day gave a few app developers a shock. Normally there's far more notice (usually around a week) between the announcement and the rollout; by Apple's standards this was sudden. And the general feeling among those app developers is not entirely positive. A lot of them have since expressed their concerns on social media, warning that the software isn't ready - by which they don't necessarily mean iOS 14 itself is faulty, but that a worrying number of apps don't yet work well with it. They simply haven't had enough time to sort out all the issues.” (https://www.macworld.co.uk/news/iosapps/dont-install-ios-14-3795312/)




Here's a full list of compatible iPadOS 14 devices:

  • iPad Air 2 (2014)
  • iPad Air (2019)
  • iPad mini 4 (2015)
  • iPad mini (2019)
  • iPad (2017, 2018, 2019)
  • iPad Pro 9.7in (2016)
  • iPad Pro 10.5in (2017)
  • iPad Pro 11in (2018, 2020)
  • iPad Pro 12.9in (2015, 2017, 2018, 2020)



Will my Apple TV run tvOS 14?

As with tvOS 13, tvOS 14 will be available on all versions of Apple TV that support an App Store. Currently, that's the Apple TV HD (sometimes referred to the 4th gen model) and the Apple TV 4K models, as well as any new Apple TV that gets released. 



Here's a list of iOS 14-compatible iPhones:

  • iPhone 6s & 6s Plus
  • iPhone SE (2016)
  • iPhone 7 & 7 Plus
  • iPhone 8 & 8 Plus
  • iPhone X
  • iPhone XR
  • iPhone XS & XS Max
  • iPhone 11
  • iPhone 11 Pro & 11 Pro Max
  • iPhone SE (2020)
  • ...plus obviously the iPhone 12, 12 Max, 12 Pro and 12 Pro Max will all come with iOS 14 preinstalled.