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[ffutures]

IOS updated itself last night, for the second time since I got the iPad, and the second time in about a month.

And BT just sent me an email saying I've used 28 of my 40gb and do I want to upgrade to a higher capacity account.

Just how often do Apple do this? Is it a regular thing, or have I just been a little unlucky in buying an iPad just before the round of changes?

Comments

[daveon.livejournal.com]

Slightly unlucky. The iOS 7 issue has been bad. Although last night's update was only 65MB I thought... so I'm surprised you've been hit that hard.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Oh, it probably isn't directly linked, just venting a bit.

[autopope.livejournal.com]

The real headache will come if there are any bugs in 7.0.3 so that they push a 7.0.4 update.

Tip: are you updating the iPad via iTunes on the PC? If so, it downloads a >1Gb installer every time.

However, you can update over-the-air directly on the iPad itself: go into Settings->General->Software Update. This uses incremental updaters that are in the 50-400Mb range.

Another major issue is apps. A fresh update of the iLife and iWork suite seems to run to 2-3Gb these days. And with iOS 7 virtually every app updated -- and then pushed out a couple of point releases to fix unexpected bugs.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

I've been doing it from the settings menu when it said there was an update - is there anything I need to tweak?

I don't have any huge apps but certainly every app I have seems to have updated in the last month.

[autopope.livejournal.com]

iOS 7 was the biggest user interface change to iOS in about 2 years. So everyone re-skinned their apps to match. This won't happen again for quite a while.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Unless the iPad 5 causes a lot of innovation, of course.

[robertprior.livejournal.com]

I haven't updated to iOS6, so I can't speak to that, but my iPad always asks before updating (which is how I've been able to stay with iOS6 for now). Likewise, all my apps wait for me to update them.

My biggest update is a textbook ("Life on Earth" by O.E. Wilson, and worth buying for $1.99) but that only takes 2.5 GB.

My single biggest use at the moment is Flickr, because of the update that uses 20-80 MB per page, so I have to ration my photo browsing. But that's on my desktop computer (which is the same data budget as my wifi iPad).

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

I figure that sooner or later I will slip and update if I don't do it immediately, so I might as well go with the updates. It helps that I'm not that far from the London Apple store, if something bricks the iPad I know where to go.

[dsample.livejournal.com]

iOS 6 averaged an update every two months, or so, but some of the bug fix releases came out pretty quickly after feature updates. 6.0.1 came out shortly after 6.0, and 6.1.1, and 6.1.2 came out less than a month after 6.1.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

OK, that gives me a ballpark. I think I'm probably worrying over nothing anyway, considering there's only 6 days left in the month.