I have been reading a lot about ios 7. It suggests I should wait before updating, is this wise advise?

Yes, it is.

There are often minor issues with any new software update. And of course, Apple will resolve them with an updates, but it's not instantaneous. Whether you want to update immediately, or wait to see if there are issues is up to you.

Personally, I've updated to the newest iOS when they are released and I have yet to suffer any significant issues.

iOS 7 will be and undoubtedly already has been extensively tested, but there can be errors that are missed during testing. Errors either in iOS itself, or in specific applications you're using.

If one of those errors is key to your environment or to an app that you depend on, then you can be at a standstill until the problem is resolved.

Which leads to the usual recommendations: either have a scratch device and test the update there, or at least wait a week or so — a week or so for a heavily used product such as iOS and for common applications, longer for less-common operating systems and applications — and see what gets reported by others.

Do we know what those errors might or will be, what part of iOS might be effected (if any), or what specific features of applications that you depend on might be perturbed? No.

Some of us will be somewhat slow about updating to newer OS X Server releases — unless we need a specific fix or update — just so that the more common issues can be sorted out by other folks, or where we use and run the updates on test systems where we can afford that; on hardware configurations that we can update and see what (if anything) fails with the update.

In terms of an iOS update, the most you'll probably effect with a failed update is yourself. Worst case, the phone is bricked, and one user (you) is out. With OS X Server, you can adversely effect dozens of folks with a failed OS X Server update or with a bricked server box.

If you still want the New Shiny (and who doesn't?), then definitely have a couple of recent backups of your data. Before you update.

Lisaliverpool wrote:

What kind of issues would occur if I downloaded it straight away. Would any further updates rectify any issues?

Well, the main issue would be you could not go back to iOS 6 if you don't like iOS 7. As with all major iOS releases there is no such thing as downgrading back to the previous release. If you update to iOS 7 you must deal with it. There's no going back. So, with the iPad 2, it might be prudent to wait and read what other iPad 2 users who do update say about it. Will all your current apps work? There will be some changes in how things work and get done in iOS 7, new features that may may not be supported on the iPad 2.

Just keep in mind that iOS 7 is not a glorified maintenance update or point release of iOS 6. iOS 7 is a completely new animal.

With the problems I've been having just TRYING to download and install iOS7, I just might wait myself. It keeps failing over and over and over again. I can't seem to figure out the problem and I'm extremly annoyed. 😠 You might want to wait.

Oh, yes. At least till all the hotheads here have bricked their iPads on failed downloads and Apple's servers are responsive again.

I am seriously considering a wait for 7.0.1 and not becoming a post-beta tester.