iOS 13.6
Developer Release Date ― July 9, 2020
Public Release Date ― July 15, 2020
Build Number ― 17G68
Darwin Kernel Version ―
iOS 13.6 Beta 4 Release Notes
iOS 13.6 adds support for digital car keys, introduces audio stories in Apple News+ (US only), and contains a new symptoms category in the Health app. This release also includes bug fixes and improvements.
Digital car keys
New Features & Changes
New Issues
Remaining Issues
Resolved Issues
Temporarily Removed
Additional Notes
Developer Release Date ― July 9, 2020
Public Release Date ― July 15, 2020
Build Number ― 17G68
Darwin Kernel Version ―
iOS 13.6 Beta 4 Release Notes
iOS 13.6 adds support for digital car keys, introduces audio stories in Apple News+ (US only), and contains a new symptoms category in the Health app. This release also includes bug fixes and improvements.
Digital car keys
- Unlock, lock, and start your compatible car with your iPhone
- Securely remove digital keys from a lost device via iCloud
- Share digital keys easily with iMessage
- Driver-specific profiles so you can configure shared keys for full-access or restricted driving
- Power reserve lets you unlock and start your car for up to five hours after iPhone runs out of battery
- Audio stories are professionally narrated versions of some of the best reads from Apple News+, selected and produced by the Apple News editors as part of your Apple News+ subscription
- Apple News Today is a new, free audio briefing on the day’s top stories from the Apple News editors, also available in the Podcasts app
- A new Audio tab makes it easy to find Apple News Today and Apple News+ audio stories
- CarPlay allows you to listen to Apple News Today and Apple News+ audio stories while on the road
- Local news in your Today feed provides extensive coverage of San Francisco, the Bay Area, Los Angeles, Houston, and New York City
- More stories available from local news providers with a subscription to Apple News+
- Your daily newsletter from Apple News can now be personalized with stories that reflect your interests
- New category for symptoms in the Health app, including symptoms logged from Cycle Tracking and ECG
- Ability to log new symptoms, like fever, chills, sore throat or coughing, and share them with third-party apps
- Adds a new setting to choose if updates automatically download to your device when on Wi-Fi
- Addresses an issue that could cause apps to become unresponsive when syncing data from iCloud Drive
- Fixes an issue that could cause data roaming to appear to be disabled on eSIM even though it remained active
- Fixes an issue thats causes some phone calls from Saskatchewan to appear as originating from the United States
- Addresses an issue that could interrupt audio when making phone calls over Wi-Fi Calling
- Fixes an issues that prevented some iPhone 6S and iPhone SE devices from registering for Wi-Fi Calling
- Resolves an issue that could cause the software keyboard to appear unexpectedly when connected to certain third-party hardware keyboards
- Fixes an issue that could cause Japanese hardware keyboards to be incorrectly mapped as a U.S. keyboard
- Addresses stability issues when accessing Control Center when Assistive Touch was enabled
- Provides a mechanism for administrators to specify domains to exclude from traffic carried by always-on VPN connections
New Features & Changes
New Issues
Remaining Issues
Resolved Issues
Temporarily Removed
Additional Notes
- Developers and testers can still report bugs using the hidden Feedback app by entering the following in Safari URL:
- iOS Release Notes
- iOS Beta Release Notes
- Deleting built-in app can affect system functionalities and Settings app. To restore affected functionalities, download the deleted built-in app back to your device.
- Intel iPhone 11/Pro/Max/SE 2020: 1.06.00
- Intel iPhone XR/XS/Max: 2.06.00
- Qualcomm iPhone 8/8 Plus/X: 5.60.00
- Intel iPhone 8/8 Plus/X: 3.03.03
- Qualcomm iPhone 7/7 Plus: 7.10.01
- Intel iPhone 7/7 Plus: 4.01.02
- iPhone SE: 9.60.00
- iPhone 6S/6S Plus: 7.70.01
United States
- Verizon - 41.1
- Visible (MVNO Verizon) 34.0
- Verizon (iPad) - 41.0
- T-Mobile - 41.0.1
- T-Mobile (iPad) - 34.5
- AT&T - 41.1
- AT&T (iPad) - 37.0 (b6)
- Cricket - 40.5.2
- MetroPCS -
- U.S. Cellular - 32.5.9
- Sprint - 41.0
- TracFone/Straight Talk/Walmart Family Mobile - 39.0.2
- Xfinity Mobile 41.0
- EE - 41.0
- BT-UK MVNO on EE- 41.0
- Three - 3
- iD Mobile MVNO on Three - 36.5.4
- O2-UK - 36.0
- Vodafone UK - 40.0
- Virgin Mobile MVNO on EE- 39.5
- Vodafone.de - 39.5.2 (downgraded)
- Telekom.de - 40.0
- O2-DE - 40.0
- Optus - 32.0
- Telstra - 40.5.2
- Orange B - 32.5.7
- BASE - 33.0
- Telenet - 38.0
- Videotron - 41.0
- Rogers - 41.0
- Fido - 38.0
- Bell - 41.0
- Telus - 32.5.12
- Freedom Mobile - 34.0
- Fizz - 41.0
- Virgin Mobile - 41.0
- Bouygues Telecom - 40.0
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- Orange Morocco - 31.5
- KPN -
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- Philippines Globe - 41.1
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- Thailand AIS -
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- Malaysia Digi -
- Malaysia celcom -
- Hong Kong - 32.0
- Comviq -
- Tre - 31.0
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- Vodafone TR - 32.0
- Turk Telekom - 32.0
- T-Mobile -
- Orange - 32.0
- Play - 31.0
- Vodafone P - 40.0
- Cosmote - 38.0
- Airtel - 41.0
- Jio - 41.0.1
- Vodafone Idea - 40.0
- Idea Cellular - 40.0
- Mexico - Telcel - 35.0
- TIGO GT - 41.0
- Docomo - 32.5.10
- AlwaysOnline -
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