![]() ![]() Some changes to the recommended configuration have been made to take account of new features and changed behaviours in the platform. This document is an update of the previous iOS 8 guidance and covers the security-relevant changes to iOS 9. This guidance was developed following testing performed on iPad Air device running iOS 9.0. It’s a bit like how Apple must feel when they’re trying to forget that last year’s OS (or hardware) was ever released.This guidance is applicable to devices running iOS 9.0. Phew! Relieved that my backups were still intact, I try my best to forget this plethora of disappointment with iOS 9. I’ve downloaded the iOS 8.3 release version, quickly wiped my iPad and tried to restore my backup again. iOS 9 looks and feels exactly like iOS 8 on my current device, and for me there is no benefit in having it on my device: I don’t intend to roll out any new apps in the near future, so I went back to exploring the iCloud Backup situation. This could be because betas usually aren’t as fluid as release versions.īut because I no longer expect anything “nice” from the Cupertino Fruit Co. It’s too early to tell I must say: while the keyboard now reflects capital and non-capital letters depending on the shift key, it does take nearly a second for the font to change when you press said shift key or the symbol key. My device has been severely crippled with the arrival of iOS 8, and rumour has it that iOS 9 might remedy that. I had secretly hoped that iOS 9 would bring performance improvements. We should all go to the store and drop $1000 a month or more just to be able to write a shopping list that works on all our devices. Please throw that iPhone 3GS and iPod Touch 4 and iPad 1 away once and for all. You can choose not to do it, and the app tells you that upgrading means you can no longer exchange notes with older devices.Īpple want to make absolutely sure nobody is using old devices anymore: this is the another step in making sure there will be no more data exchange with iOS 5 and iOS 6 devices. It is required to upgrade existing notes for use with iOS 9, much like the upgrade to iCloud Drive. The interface reminds mea little of 53 Paper. The new Notes features are a nice touch, 4 years late in my opinion, but better late than never. I didn’t even look at the News app, mainly because I’ve un-installed Flipbook and Zite many years ago and have never looked back. But since there’s no actual documentation on this topic, your guess is as good as mine. It was my understanding that Slide Over was supported on all devices, and that only the arbitrary split view and picture-in-picture required this week’s hardware. Turns out none of these new features work on my iPad 3, nor on the iPad 2: all you can do is use two fingers on the keyboard and move the cursor (no text selection either). So I went on to explore a bit, being particularly intrigued by the Slide Over feature: apparently you slide in from the right hand side with one finger and bring up a second app. It did make me wonder if all my iCloud Backups were broken or if it was just this particular iOS 9 Beta. All I could do was to setup my device as a “new iPad” (after all, that was its launch title). I tried them all, multiple times, but to no avail: none of them could be restored. I had three backups in total from various dates to choose from. But restoring my iCloud Backup didn’t work: I picked one, the restore started, counted down the minutes, and shortly before it was due to finish, it comes up with the message in the screenshot above. I thought it would make sense to restore the latest iCloud Backup I had made just minutes before, thinking that testing with existing data would make sense. Thankfully a DFU restore did the trick, and iOS 9 was starting fine. ![]() The first attempt to add the new beta using iTunes didn’t work and turned my poor iPad into a coaster. ![]() I’ve hit a few stumbling blocks and thought I’d tell you about them. I thought I’d give the new iOS 9 Beta 1 a spin on my ageing iPad 3. ![]()
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