iOS 10 was released in beta format as early as Monday and a lot of people rushed to install the new version of the operating system, even though Apple currently only offers it in a format normally available only to application developers for iOS.
This did not prevent the appearance on the Internet of user profiles that are available in the portal of application developers, installing iOS 10 beta 1 with their help being possible on any iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch without restrictions and I told you yesterday how to install iOS 10 beta 1.
Well, a day and a half after the installation of iOS 10 I come with the first impressions about this build of the operating system, the Apple company implementing many visible changes, but few of them are really worthy of appearing in an operating system so used.
Design
First contact with iOS 10 will bring to the fore the design changes that Apple has made, they are small for the way the LockScreen, the lock screen, or the main application screen looks by default, but very large for the application notification banners , widgets or Control Center.
I will start with the notification banners from the applications, they are now much bigger, much harder to ignore, but also much uglier. Apple created rectangles with much rounder accounts that have a big and ugly header, the writing being much too big and thick.
The new iOS 10 widgets have a similar appearance, but a bit nicer, their writing is much smaller and more natural, and the display of images combined with texts gives them a slightly nicer look, but the way they are embedded in iOS looks ugly , the rectangles having to be replaced with something else.
The new ugly format with very round corners also applies to the Control Center, which now has buttons with a much too intense blue, menus integrated in ugly rectangles and the music control system does not look better in one way or another.
If we are talking about the interface of the Music application... well here I think that Jony Ive took a man off the street and told him to design him for Apple Music, the end result being the worst design created for any native application implemented by to Apple in iOS.
I could write all day about how iOS 10 has become uglier, but I think many of you have discovered for yourself the not very timely changes that Apple made to its operating system dedicated to iDevices.
performant
The second extremely important aspect of iOS 10 is the performance, and because we are talking about a beta version, there should not be too many expectations from Apple's operating system, because it is in constant change and monitoring.
In the iPhone 6S Plus, the performances are not brilliant, the animations are played randomly, sometimes with wrong graphic displays, often with lag, but this is to be expected from a beta version of iOS, especially since it is the first, so it would not there should be complaints from this point of view.
The performance of iOS 10 beta 1 is worse than that of iOS 9.3.3 beta, or iOS 9.3.2, but the difference is not colossal, so big that one can say that Apple released a beta version of iOS 10 that works extremely hard on terminals.
Functionality
If you get past the ugly design, you get to the new functions of iOS 10, these being implemented in various areas of the operating system and many of them should have reached us a few years ago, but Apple worked in its characteristic way, as if it were a Romanian company.
Most of the iOS 10 functions work without problems, but blockages or refusals to act on the user's command may sometimes appear, for example some recorded photos could be deleted when exiting the Camera application, certain third-party applications will not open, etc.
As I said in the case of performance, we are talking about a beta version of the iOS 10 operating system, and problems of this kind are perfectly normal, so if you are not willing to fight with them, you better do it downgrade to iOS 9.3.2 and live a quiet life.
Battery life
After only one day of using iOS 10 beta 1 I can't tell you much about battery life, but I can tell you that you shouldn't expect it to be better than in the stable versions of the iOS operating system because you're getting your hopes up in vain at this moment.
Going over the fact that you will use the terminals more frequently to test the new functions of iOS 10, this build has implemented various activity monitoring and problem logging systems, which consume more resources than normal, the autonomy decreasing as a result.
Moreover, iOS 10 beta 1 also transmits some data to Apple's servers to be analyzed and solve problems that developers or users do not report, these procedures also consume battery power, so the battery will be lower than in normal.
The WOW effect
There is and not much. I mean, you have the enthusiasm to test something new, but when you see how ugly some elements of the iOS 10 interface look and how little others have changed, it's as if you no longer have the same desire to waste a few good hours playing with your terminal.
Although there are some interesting changes for the Messages application, or for various other functions, overall we are not talking about a major update for iOS 10, at least not on the surface, and this is because Apple has kind of given up on offering extraordinary things through updates.
In the source code of iOS 10 there are a lot of changes that developers will definitely feel, but for ordinary users the change is not as big as it should be for an important iteration of the iOS operating system, or at least it is my impression... for several years now.
How much or little impressed were you after installing iOS 10?
