Introduction
Let’s be honest, iOS 11 wasn’t great. Sure, it brought some great new features, but many of them were delayed for months—Messages in the Cloud was delayed nearly a year.
Feature delays are frustrating, but even worse was slow performance. Over the years, iOS had apparently picked up some cruft, and it really showed in its 11th iteration.
Thankfully, Apple was aware of this, because the primary focus of iOS 12 isn’t new features but performance. If you’re used to iOS 11, you’ll notice it the instant you fire up your device with iOS 12. Some actions are as much as 50% faster than they were in iOS 11!
But that’s not to say iOS 12 is devoid of new features. If iOS 12 has a central theme, it’s this: making you feel less compelled to ...
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