I tried it on iPhone and iPad (developer beta 4)
Honestly, the only feature worth the upgrade for me was ability to force add any website as a PWA. Other decent features were pinning folder to dock and using a custom wallpaper for chats.
The downsides were massive for me-
- iPad is basically not a multitasking device anymore. It hangs or lags with screen manager and the new mode. And there is no option to move back to the old mode.
- The performance overall was sluggish which might be fixed in future betas.
- New UI visuals are flashy and okay but definitely not anything that warrants an update.
- The preview app is pointless. The files app already did everything that the app did, without the added load.
This would be the first major update that I will be skipping. I will keep my devices on iOS 18 till they die. I have never had to do this before.
I am entering passwords in plaintext as environment variables for docker.