That software, codenamed Dawn, may have fewer major changes than originally planned. Earlier this year, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman suggested that this may also be a result of Apple’s engineers being tied up with its mixed-reality headset, and having little time for this year’s iOS 17 release, which has been given an internal code name of “Dawn.”Īpple’s focus on the xrOS operating system - along with iOS 16 snags - has also cost it some new features in iOS 17 and iPadOS 17, the next major iPhone and iPad software updates. However, they represent critical moments where Apple can take a beat and focus on fixing existing problems and speeding things up, rather than adding more complexity - and more potential problems.Īpple has set a rather frenetic pace over the past four major iOS updates, so many believed that iOS 17 would be another relatively pedestrian “tuneup” release, prioritizing polishing things up under the hood while adding few new user-facing features.

Releases like these may not generate as much buzz as an entirely new home screen experience with widgets, live text in photos, or a customizable lock screen. Every few years, Apple releases a major iOS version that’s more of a “maintenance” update - one that’s long on bug fixes and short on features.įor example, the 2018 release of iOS 12 focused primarily on improving performance while it did deliver some interesting new features, these weren’t nearly as exciting as what had shown up the year before in iOS 11 or what came in iOS 13 the following year.

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