The Reed-View: iOS 10

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Sophmore Jessica Rogers looks at her phone after downloading the update.

Many people today like to remain as up-to-date as possible, whether it’s with fashion, software, or viral trends. One of the most recent trends is iOS 10, Apple’s new software for their line of products. Numerous changes and features were added to this update. Some are very useful while others are left more confused than the ending of Inception or the motive to make Angry Birds into a movie. Please note that several features will not be discussed in this article.

The first feature you will encounter is the raise-to-wake feature. This feature turns on your phone screen when you pick up the phone. This update changed the usual pass-code area into a place for notification widgets. To unlock the phone, you now have to press the home button. Pressing it will take you to the pass-code screen.

This feature is cool, but all of them including this one come with their fair share of glitches. Sometimes your home button doesn’t work and it ends up taking forever to unlock your phone. The icing on the cake is that sometimes nothing works, including swiping and opening apps. The go-to method of turning it off and back on again doesn’t work. When you try to shut it off, you have to hold the lock button then swipe to the right. When swiping doesn’t work you end up feeling like you’re back in the stone age and have to build a fire using only a couple of sticks.

Even though this update has a lot of flaws, at the end of the day, I don’t think it’s all that bad. While all the flaws cause me to beat up a folding chair with a baseball bat, they aren’t as bad as past updates. Apple released a patch to fix the glitches, and it worked well. Some are still there, but they’re unnoticed. In previous updates, none of the glitches were fixed at all, so I’m happy to finally see a change. I give this update six iPhones out of 10.