In a rare move, Apple has hit pause on development of next year’s software updates for the iPhone, iPad, Mac and other devices for a week, in order to fix bugs in currently releases.
Mark Gurman for Bloomberg News:
The delay, announced internally to employees last week, was meant to help maintain quality control after a proliferation of bugs in early versions, according to people with knowledge of the decision. Rather than adding new features, company engineers were tasked with fixing the flaws and improving the performance of the software, said the people, who asked not to be identified because the matter is private.
Last month, the company completed the first version of its next iPhone, iPad and Mac operating systems. That iteration is known as M1 since it’s the first major milestone. The iPhone and iPad software, which will become iOS 18 and iPadOS 18, is dubbed “Crystal” internally. The Mac software, macOS 15, is called “Glow.”
Apple delayed the start of work on the second milestone release, known as M2. The halt also applied to the next Apple Watch operating system — watchOS 11, which is dubbed “Moonstone” — as well as an update to the current iOS 17 called iOS 17.4… Apple is lifting the pause this week.
MacDailyNews Take: Makes sense to make sure “it just works,” before adding new features.
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Glad Apple is doing this, just not sure a week is long enough.
Why your at it, can you please rethink some of these overly complex gestures for what use to be simple one swipe request?
I’m happy that they are working on bugs. On my Watch Series 9 I am experiencing the battery issue. And on my iPhone 15 it still overheats.
Excuse me. This shouldn’t be news worthy. This should e a regular part of ’s system development. No OS is flawless. There will always be fixes and bugs. Knowing that, should have regularly slated times such as this built into their development cycle.
It’s new-worthy b/c Apple leans towards the “feature” realm way too much. Annoyingly, this pursuit is often presumptuous…Apple deciding what the customer needs in a controlling manner.