It’s no surprise that Apple released a major update for iPhones and iPads – and everyone has been swooning over features like Find My AirPods, and improvements to everyone’s favourite assistant, Siri.
However, there’s an update that changes the fundamentals of how the iPhone and iPad works. Surprisingly that hasn’t break anything, just yet. According to a Business Insider report, Apple has upgraded its file system, to a new “Apple File System”, instead of the old “HFS+” which was around since 30 over years ago.
According to the wordings, Apple File System “is optimised for Flash/SSD storage and features strong encryption, copy-on-write metadata, space sharing, cloning for files and directories, snapshots, fast directory sizing, atomic safe-save primitives, and improved file system fundamentals” and should help iPhones and iPads run faster and more smoothly.
However it’s not without risks. Changing the file systems means messing around with the way the computer stores data and locating where and how to find it. So if anything goes wrong, it could have corrupted or deleted some files.
As of now, there hasn’t been any reported instances of anything going wrong during the transition. So far the only complains stems from the long installing time – which is probably because the update has to rewrite the entire file system. If there were any file related complains, it probably would have caused quite a stir, with people taking to Twitter if files were deleted.