The Evolution of iOS: A Comparative Analysis of iOS 6 and iOS 10

As I sit here with my trusty iPhone 5, I am reminded of the evolution of Apple's mobile operating system. The device that started it all, the original iPhone, has come a long way since its release in 2007. In this article, we will take a journey through the history of iOS and compare two significant versions: iOS 6 and iOS 10.

One of the notable features that I miss about iOS 6 is the swipe back functionality. It was a game-changer for many users, including myself, who grew accustomed to it over time. Unfortunately, Apple decided to remove this feature from subsequent versions of iOS. The new approach has limited options to quickly close apps and navigate through the interface.

Another aspect that I prefer about iOS 6 is the wallpaper selection. In contrast to the current offerings in iOS 10, which are relatively simple, iOS 6 provided a wider range of options. While this may seem like a minor point, it's surprising how much of a difference it can make in terms of user experience.

As we begin our comparison, I want to highlight that the iPhone 5 is still a valuable device that can provide insight into the evolution of iOS. The device was discontinued and replaced by newer models, allowing me to experiment with different versions of iOS. In this case, I've saved an iPhone 5 with iOS 6 to compare its performance with the latest version, iOS 10.

Let's take a closer look at the Apple logo on both devices. The original iPhone's logo is unmistakable and has undergone several design updates over the years. It's fascinating to see how these subtle changes can reflect the company's growing identity as a technology leader.

Now that we have our comparison setup, let's boot up both devices and examine their startup performance. When I initiated the process on my iPhone 5 with iOS 6, it took around 15 seconds for the device to become fully functional. While this may seem like an eternity in today's fast-paced world, it's worth noting that this was the state of affairs at the time.

As we move forward with our comparison, I want to mention a few key points where iOS 10 improved upon its predecessor. In settings, for example, there is a noticeable delay when navigating through submenus. This may seem like a minor inconvenience, but it's an area where Apple has made significant strides in recent years.

Next up, we have the App Store. While launching the web page took only a second to load, I found that iOS 10 was able to do so slightly faster. It's worth noting that these subtle differences can add up over time, particularly for users who rely heavily on their devices for work or daily tasks.

Moving on, let's try out some other apps and see how they perform in both iOS 6 and iOS 10. When I opened the weather app on my iPhone 5 with iOS 6, it took a few seconds to load. In contrast, the same app on iOS 10 loaded almost instantly. This highlights the improved performance of newer versions of iOS.

The camera application is another area where we see significant differences between the two devices. The shutter lens animation in iOS 6 takes around 3-4 seconds to complete, whereas on iOS 10, it's a matter of fractions of a second. These small improvements may seem insignificant, but they contribute to a more seamless user experience.

One area that I was particularly curious about was the app switcher. In both versions, I experienced significant delays when switching between apps. However, it's worth noting that this is not an ideal solution for users who rely on their devices constantly.

As we come to the end of our comparison, let's take a look at some actual numbers. To do so, I've conducted some geek benches and speed tests. These results show that iOS 10 has a higher score overall than its predecessor, with a difference of around 2,000 points between the two versions.

Another benchmark test, The Intudo Benchmark, confirms that iOS 10 is indeed faster and more efficient than iOS 6. While this may not be surprising, it's reassuring to see that Apple has made significant strides in optimizing their software over time.

Finally, I want to try out one last test – launching Instagram on both devices. While the older version of the app still performs relatively well, I noticed a slight delay when switching between the two. However, this is not enough to detract from the overall experience.

As we conclude our comparison, it's clear that iOS 10 has made significant strides in terms of performance and efficiency. While some features have been lost along the way, such as swipe back functionality, the benefits of newer versions far outweigh these drawbacks. It's an impressive testament to Apple's commitment to innovation and user experience.

In the end, I'm left with a sense of nostalgia for the original iPhone 5 and its iOS 6 counterpart. While they may not be the most modern devices in terms of hardware or software, they hold a special place in my heart as a reminder of how far we've come as an industry. As we look to the future, it will be exciting to see where Apple takes us next – and what features we can expect to lose along the way.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enwhat's up guys everything Apple Pro here and I had an interesting idea what if I were to compare the original version of the iPhone 5 iOS 6.0 to the newest 10.3.3 version in light of this iPhone being discontinued I just wanted to see is plann obsolescence a reality did it affect the iPhone 5 one of Apple's greatest phones in my opinion it's the last iPhone that Steve Jobs had any input on and it's definitely apparent on iOS 6.0 you have the skew more Perfect Design where you have shadows depths uh a bunch of patterns even in iOS something that iOS 10 doesn't iOS 10 is very flat so it's definitely something you can tell that Steve Jobs worked on but aside from design how's the performance a lot of people still use this device data day believe it or not so let's go ahead and take a look at planned obsolescence and whether or not it affected this guy with an ultimate speed test of the first versus last firmware of the iPhone 5 I'm going to miss this phone that's for sure it was a beautiful phone it was one of my favorites personally so uh yeah let's send it off with a final speed test all right so I have one of the very first released iPhone 5s on its original firmware this was the matte black color we got before the new one with the iPhone 7 and it really is a stunner now the one flaw of it was that it would rub off and you get all the silver underneath so it wasn't really good condition but when it was new this thing looked stunning so turning it on you have that old style lock screen no press to unlock you actually had the original slide to unlock it was the last iPhone that Steve Jobs cooperated with and helped build right before he passed as well as his legacy firmware iOS 6 with that skoric design it's totally reflected everywhere docks you have shadows you have depth you have like classic knobs this button over here lusters when you actually move it it's a really really cool touch I mean opening the camera you have the classic camera blades it's really really reflected throughout the entire OS all right so on the left I have my iOS 6.0 device and on the right iOS 10.3.3 now just to show you guys this thing really is running the first firmware ever there it is IOS 6.0 and this isn't using any sort of tool this is actually its stock version iOS 6.0 required Less storage than iOS tended the features really were simpler back then so I just want to do a little overview before we get into the speed point portion just the look of it the feel of it it's really really different I mean the music player itself it didn't have the depth the cool uh cover flow feature like uh Apple removed later on you've got of course a much cleaner flatter look and I prefer iOS 6's music player even from the lock screen it's uh kind of cool you can bring up the player just like this over here you have to swipe and get into the second page of the control center back then iOS 6 didn't have a control center nothing like that even the app switcher was a lot harder to navigate you have to click on them and then exit just like that notification center did exist though and uh it's cool as you can see there is a lot of depth looks almost like a jean board there very interesting the one thing I definitely don't miss about iOS 6.0 is no swipe back I got so used to that feature it's like my favorite thing about iOS 10 comparing these look at all of these wallpaper choices now you just have just a little bit and that's it so I definitely prefer Iowa 6's choice I wish they kept all of these and just kept adding to them all right so I'm going to go ahead and clear up all of the apps and we're going to start with a startup test see with all of the features that iOS 10 added let's see if it bogs down the system in any way if it's realistically faster or slower than the first and original firmware all right here we go with iOS 6.0 on the left in 3 2 1 so I don't know if you guys know this but I'm actually saving a device from all of the newer iPhones to compare eventually when they get discontinued to the last version on those I'm just very curious to see the evolution of devices as more features are added software is updated how it Compares now look at that Apple logo you've got that classic look there uh before Apple updated their logos so really really interesting but anyways I can see it is almost booted oh there it is and uh ready to go fully functional here so this one is still booting where if you're in an emergency and your phone was dead you would still be uh at Mercy of the software booting but as you can see there it is ready to go right after getting some popups but overall not too far behind maybe 10 15 seconds startup isn't bad let's go ahead and do some app launches here and see uh the speed of actual interaction 1 2 3 ooh look at that quite a delay over here in settings let's do a submenu here in settings 1 two 3 yeah it has a hesitation settings a little bit quicker let's try the App Store does load the web pages just a second faster actually not terrible uh let's try a weather over here did give me the weather quite significantly faster uh the camera application 3 2 1 ooh that's actually loaded a little bit faster because of the shutter lens animation over there so let's try the app switcher one two oh quite a delay on iOS 10 yeah interesting so although it isn't much slower iOS 10 overall is just a little bit behind it definitely isn't terrible for all the new features added the difference between the 4S on iOS 5 and iOS 9 was way more significant and the messages app 1 2 3 oh so uh iOS 6 was faster on that one as well and the phone app 1 2 3 probably one of the most crucial points it was ready to go right off the bat on iOS 6.0 so much faster feeling it definitely is much more fluid like things just open close seemingly much faster than on iOS 6 when they're not preloaded over here though you can exit mid mid opening that definitely helps with the fluidity lastly just the music application 1 2 3 ready to go on Iowa 6.0 much faster wow all right let's go ahead and get some actual numbers here I'm going to get some geek benches going and a speed test after that all right and here is that result on iOS 10 7.3.3 iPhone 5 of course same processor and everything on the left here 6.0 we got 1640 so what does that mean basically it was a different time different test but uh iOS 10 did get a higher score overall this is essentially the combined score of both of these so uh iOS 10 is definitely pushing its weight much better than I thought it would just a couple more here and The intudo Benchmark again the iPhone 5 outdoes iOS six so slightly higher about 2,000 points higher there overall I am very very impressed one last test I wanted to do was to launch Instagram this is an older version versus new but uh seems as if it's still a little bit faster there cool very impressed so unlike the iPhone 4S IOS 10 actually improved the performance of iOS 6 in some ways but the overall UI slowed down so not too bad it's a great trade-off for all of the new features just a curious test I've been wanting to do for a very long time a send off to one of Apple's greatest devices ever the iPhone 5 I seriously love this thing when it came out and it's no wonder with the skoric design it was such a special phone thanks for watching guys stay tuned for more videos peacewhat's up guys everything Apple Pro here and I had an interesting idea what if I were to compare the original version of the iPhone 5 iOS 6.0 to the newest 10.3.3 version in light of this iPhone being discontinued I just wanted to see is plann obsolescence a reality did it affect the iPhone 5 one of Apple's greatest phones in my opinion it's the last iPhone that Steve Jobs had any input on and it's definitely apparent on iOS 6.0 you have the skew more Perfect Design where you have shadows depths uh a bunch of patterns even in iOS something that iOS 10 doesn't iOS 10 is very flat so it's definitely something you can tell that Steve Jobs worked on but aside from design how's the performance a lot of people still use this device data day believe it or not so let's go ahead and take a look at planned obsolescence and whether or not it affected this guy with an ultimate speed test of the first versus last firmware of the iPhone 5 I'm going to miss this phone that's for sure it was a beautiful phone it was one of my favorites personally so uh yeah let's send it off with a final speed test all right so I have one of the very first released iPhone 5s on its original firmware this was the matte black color we got before the new one with the iPhone 7 and it really is a stunner now the one flaw of it was that it would rub off and you get all the silver underneath so it wasn't really good condition but when it was new this thing looked stunning so turning it on you have that old style lock screen no press to unlock you actually had the original slide to unlock it was the last iPhone that Steve Jobs cooperated with and helped build right before he passed as well as his legacy firmware iOS 6 with that skoric design it's totally reflected everywhere docks you have shadows you have depth you have like classic knobs this button over here lusters when you actually move it it's a really really cool touch I mean opening the camera you have the classic camera blades it's really really reflected throughout the entire OS all right so on the left I have my iOS 6.0 device and on the right iOS 10.3.3 now just to show you guys this thing really is running the first firmware ever there it is IOS 6.0 and this isn't using any sort of tool this is actually its stock version iOS 6.0 required Less storage than iOS tended the features really were simpler back then so I just want to do a little overview before we get into the speed point portion just the look of it the feel of it it's really really different I mean the music player itself it didn't have the depth the cool uh cover flow feature like uh Apple removed later on you've got of course a much cleaner flatter look and I prefer iOS 6's music player even from the lock screen it's uh kind of cool you can bring up the player just like this over here you have to swipe and get into the second page of the control center back then iOS 6 didn't have a control center nothing like that even the app switcher was a lot harder to navigate you have to click on them and then exit just like that notification center did exist though and uh it's cool as you can see there is a lot of depth looks almost like a jean board there very interesting the one thing I definitely don't miss about iOS 6.0 is no swipe back I got so used to that feature it's like my favorite thing about iOS 10 comparing these look at all of these wallpaper choices now you just have just a little bit and that's it so I definitely prefer Iowa 6's choice I wish they kept all of these and just kept adding to them all right so I'm going to go ahead and clear up all of the apps and we're going to start with a startup test see with all of the features that iOS 10 added let's see if it bogs down the system in any way if it's realistically faster or slower than the first and original firmware all right here we go with iOS 6.0 on the left in 3 2 1 so I don't know if you guys know this but I'm actually saving a device from all of the newer iPhones to compare eventually when they get discontinued to the last version on those I'm just very curious to see the evolution of devices as more features are added software is updated how it Compares now look at that Apple logo you've got that classic look there uh before Apple updated their logos so really really interesting but anyways I can see it is almost booted oh there it is and uh ready to go fully functional here so this one is still booting where if you're in an emergency and your phone was dead you would still be uh at Mercy of the software booting but as you can see there it is ready to go right after getting some popups but overall not too far behind maybe 10 15 seconds startup isn't bad let's go ahead and do some app launches here and see uh the speed of actual interaction 1 2 3 ooh look at that quite a delay over here in settings let's do a submenu here in settings 1 two 3 yeah it has a hesitation settings a little bit quicker let's try the App Store does load the web pages just a second faster actually not terrible uh let's try a weather over here did give me the weather quite significantly faster uh the camera application 3 2 1 ooh that's actually loaded a little bit faster because of the shutter lens animation over there so let's try the app switcher one two oh quite a delay on iOS 10 yeah interesting so although it isn't much slower iOS 10 overall is just a little bit behind it definitely isn't terrible for all the new features added the difference between the 4S on iOS 5 and iOS 9 was way more significant and the messages app 1 2 3 oh so uh iOS 6 was faster on that one as well and the phone app 1 2 3 probably one of the most crucial points it was ready to go right off the bat on iOS 6.0 so much faster feeling it definitely is much more fluid like things just open close seemingly much faster than on iOS 6 when they're not preloaded over here though you can exit mid mid opening that definitely helps with the fluidity lastly just the music application 1 2 3 ready to go on Iowa 6.0 much faster wow all right let's go ahead and get some actual numbers here I'm going to get some geek benches going and a speed test after that all right and here is that result on iOS 10 7.3.3 iPhone 5 of course same processor and everything on the left here 6.0 we got 1640 so what does that mean basically it was a different time different test but uh iOS 10 did get a higher score overall this is essentially the combined score of both of these so uh iOS 10 is definitely pushing its weight much better than I thought it would just a couple more here and The intudo Benchmark again the iPhone 5 outdoes iOS six so slightly higher about 2,000 points higher there overall I am very very impressed one last test I wanted to do was to launch Instagram this is an older version versus new but uh seems as if it's still a little bit faster there cool very impressed so unlike the iPhone 4S IOS 10 actually improved the performance of iOS 6 in some ways but the overall UI slowed down so not too bad it's a great trade-off for all of the new features just a curious test I've been wanting to do for a very long time a send off to one of Apple's greatest devices ever the iPhone 5 I seriously love this thing when it came out and it's no wonder with the skoric design it was such a special phone thanks for watching guys stay tuned for more videos peace\n"