Apple quietly stops meaningful auto-updates in iOS
Craig Federighi, Apple’s senior vice president of software engineering, acknowledged Apple has dramatically slowed down auto updates — by as much as a month.
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Craig Federighi, Apple’s senior vice president of software engineering, acknowledged Apple has dramatically slowed down auto updates — by as much as a month.
If you want your iOS device to get the latest software version as soon as it is released, do not opt for automatic updates. iPhone user Mateusz Buda noticed that his device did not receive the iOS 15.4 update notification two weeks after the public release even though he enabled automatic updates. He sent an email with this question to...
Apple's auto-update feature is a handy tool, but it's not the fastest way to get the latest versions of iOS.
Apple first rolls out its iOS updates for those who "explicitly seek them out in Settings" so that if there is any critical bug, it can be fixed before it is available for users who have turned on the auto-update option.
Apple's Craig Federighi has outlined how the company handles rolling out of automatic updates to iOS, including why it can take weeks to work.