iOS 7.1 is out

[Eug]

Despite the battery life tests done by Ars indicating battery life isn't significantly worse in 7.1 on most hardware, and despite my OK results initially, I'm thinking it is worse actually. I have no hard data so I may be full of it, but it seems to me that my battery life remaining is fairly consistently lower at the end of the day than it used to be.

 

[Rottie]

I find this 7.1 speed up my Air more snappy BUT some apps still crashed so companies are slow to update their apps.

 

[jpiniero]

Looked at Ars review of 7.1. It still stuns me that people think this is an improvement over iOS 6.

 

[Rakehellion]

7.1.1 is out.

 

[Eug]

It turns out that if you have an iDevice that can be updated to iOS 7, and you don't update to iOS 7, then FaceTime will stop working properly.

The latest versions of FaceTime require iOS 6.1.6 or a recent version of iOS 7. The problem though is none of the iDevices that support iOS 7 can be updated to iOS 6.1.6. iOS 6.1.6 is limited to the iPhone 3GS and the 4th gen iPod touch only.

IOW, if you have an iPad 2 and beyond or an iPhone 4 and beyond you must update to iOS 7 in order to get proper FaceTime support.

 

[Eug]

The other thing of note is that in the past few months, Netflix on my iPad 2 has been in HD. It's a very nice visual improvement. I had attributed this only to a Netflix update, and yes the Netflix app update is required, but it turns out that the latest Netflix HD update requires iOS 7.