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7 Things to Know About the iPhone 8 iOS 13.7 Update

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4 years ago

09/10/2020

Apple’s iOS 13.7 update could have a significant impact on your iPhone 8 or iPhone 8 Plus’ performance.

Apple continues to roll out iOS 13 updates and the newest version of the operating system brings new features and bug fixes to the iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus.

The iOS 13.7 update could have a positive impact on your phone’s overall performance. Some users are noticing better battery life, faster speeds, and increased stability.

While a lot of iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus users should make the move from older versions of iOS 13 to iOS 13.7 today, others might want to wait.

We’re hearing about an assortment of problems as we push further away from the update’s release.

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iOS 13.7 requires a fairly small download if your device is currently running iOS 13.6.1. If you’re running an older version of iOS, say iOS 13.5, your iOS 13.7 update will be more substantial because the features and fixes from the updates you skipped are baked in.

With that in mind, we want to walk iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus users through the most important things to know, right now, about the iPhone 8’s iOS 13.7 update.

It’ll guide you through the current problems with the operating system, fixes for those issues, your downgrade options, and a whole lot more.

We’ve been using the iPhone 8’s iOS 13.7 update for several days and here’s what we’ve learned thus far.

iPhone 8 iOS 13.7 Impressions & Performance

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We've been testing iOS 13.7 on the iPhone 8 and performance has been pretty solid in key areas like speed and battery life.

We haven't noticed much sluggishness. Animations and transitions are crisp and problem areas like Notifications, Control Center, and the keyboard haven't been problems for us yet. They've all been smooth thus far.

Battery life is holding up at this point and we haven't noticed any abnormal drain. That could change and we'll let you know if it does.

Connectivity (Wi-Fi, GPS, Bluetooth) is currently stable and we haven't noticed any issues with our core applications (Chrome, Gmail, Slack, Asana, Netflix, Dark Sky, and many others) yet.

Developers are still rolling out iOS 13 support updates so if you're noticing issues with your apps, make sure you download the latest updates.

As of right now we haven't run into any game-changing bugs so we're recommending iOS 13.7 to most iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus users.

If you need more feedback, check out our list of reasons to and not to install iOS 13.7 right now.