"A year ago — to the day — I closed my review of iOS 6 by noting that Apple tends to prefer subtler updates: If you compare any two sequential major releases of iOS, you’re not going to see complete overhauls of the operating system. You can therefore imagine how dumb I feel now, staring at a version of iOS that looks vastly different to those which preceded it. I simply didn’t think that Apple would take iOS to its bare elements, and redesign it from the ground up." - × × ×