iOS 9, thoroughly reviewed

Apple gives the iPad a lot of love as iOS goes back into spit-and-polish mode.

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[robotic_tourist]

I haven't read through the comments to see if anyone else has posted this, but an iTunes install of an OS update still needs a not-insignificant amount of free space. Yes, less than OTA, but it's definitely more than nothing.

UPDATE: I just did an iTunes install and it said I needed 770MB. Farewell, Garageband, I never really used you anyway.

 

[robotic_tourist]

kriket011[/url]":26nvqafd]I just don't like the new San Francisco typeface. Everytime I read about it here on Ars, the typeface change is downplayed, like it's a minor difference, it's a bit less round, less soft, marginally more legible on non-retina devices etc. But nowhere does it say it looks uglier.

I'm aware that it's not a big deal, and that everyone will have to update regardless of the font, and everyone will have to make do with it, like it or not.

But, for a company that puts so much effort in their design of every little detail, and claims to have superior design compared to everyone else, I have to say, the old typeface was better!

There Apple, I've said it first.

I quite like San Francisco, at least in normal format. I think it adds to Apple's branding. Helvetica Neue is superb, but anyone can use it.

On the other hand, San Francisco in small sizes, like on the Apple Watch is nowhere near as good. It's too close to Roboto. Roboto is great on maps, but everywhere else it is absolutely awful. It's bad as a UI font, it's bad as body text and it's bad when used in headings. I'm not sure which I dislike more: Arial or Roboto.