Have you updated your iPhone and iPad to iOS 9 yet? You should. From everything I have been reading, this is the most problem-free iOS upgrade ever. The new features are fantastic (some of which are discussed below), you’ll get more battery life, everything is more polished and advanced, and it costs you nothing to upgrade. Bravo, Apple. And now, the news of note from the past week:
- Florida attorney Katie Floyd analyzes whether AppleCare+ for the new iPhone 6s is really worth it.
- In an article for Above the Law, California attorney Jeff Bennion interviews Texas attorney Tom Mighell, author of iPad in One Hour for Lawyers, to talk about how lawyers can make the best use of an iPad.
- Tom Mighell also compares the iPad Pro with the Windows Surface Pro 3.
- New York attorney Nick Squillante of TechnoLawyer discusses the upcoming iPad Pro.
- California attorney David Sparks talks about some of his favorite features in iOS 9.
- Ohio attorney Brett Burney recommends Felt, an iPad app that lets you create handwritten notes that are sent in the U.S. Mail.
- In an article for SuperSite for Windows, Jason Snell discusses 5 new iOS 9 features to get excited about.
- Over on Macworld, Jason Snell explains that, based upon his hands-on experience with the upcoming iPhone 6s, Apple did a great job with the new 3D Touch feature.
- Caitlin McGarry of Macworld discusses the new features of the Mail app in iOS 9.
- watchOS 2.0 was supposed to be released this week, but Apple delayed it for a short time to fix a bug that it found at the last minute. While you wait to update your Apple Watch, you can read about all of the upcoming new features in Rene Ritchie definitive review of watchOS 2.0 on iMore.
- David Pierce of Wired talks about the development of Apple’s upcoming stylus, the Apple Pencil.
- Apple has cut the price of iCloud storage, which you can use to share documents between an iPhone, iPad and Mac. iCloud is most useful for me as a way to make all of the photos on my Mac (almost 50,000) also available on my iPhone and iPad, which is great when I want to share that one picture from 13 years ago that I remember. And of course, iCloud is also a place to store your documents. Dan Moren of Six Colors describes the new iCloud plans and shows how they compare to Dropbox and other cloud storage services.
- Dan Moren also discusses the new improvements to the Maps app in iOS 9.
- Jeff Benjamin of iDownloadBlog says that one of his favorite features of iOS 9 on the iPad is the new folder layout, which now shows you 16 apps in a folder (up from 9). I like this change too.
- Greg Kimparak of TechCrunch identifies 15 less obvious features in iOS 9.
- David Pogue of Yahoo Tech reviews the DxO One, a $600 accessory for an iPhone that lets it take SLR-quality photographs.
- Apple CEO Tim Cook was in New York this week, and John Paczkowski of BuzzFeed had the chance to ask him some questions.
- And finally, the reason that Tim Cook was in New York was to be a guest on the new Late Show with Stephen Colbert. It was a great interview, with Cook and Colbert both at their best. Definitely worth watching. Here is the video:
“From everything I have been reading, this is the most problem-free iOS upgrade ever.”
You spoke too soon. My update has created massive iCloud problems — namely, I can no longer backup my device to iCloud. And, it looks like I’m not alone:
http://forums.imore.com/showthread.php?t=340753
https://discussions.apple.com/message/28913505?
And, although not nearly as significant a problem, all my contact “groups” are now in a random order in the Contacts app, instead of alphabetical order from all prior iOS versions.
We are advised by our IS department not to upgrade to iOS9 because of significant security problems.