Big Performance Boost

Over the past few years, Apple has been putting a lot of emphasis on the performance of its iOS updates. In fact, last year’s iOS 12 release was almost entirely about performance, with the company’s development team skipping most major new features for a year to focus almost exclusively on speeding up iOS and making it more stable on older devices.

Despite a long list of new features, Apple hasn’t ignored performance improvements this year either, and promises that iOS 13 will offer 30 percent faster Face ID unlocking and will double-up the speed at which apps launch. The latter will be the result of changing the way apps are packaged on the App Store, which will also result in a reduction in download size of around 50 percent for full apps, and 60 percent for updates. However, because of the need to make changes to the App Store, we’re likely not going to see these improvements until iOS 13 launches to the public this fall.