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Update was available on the dot on my parents OG HomePod (triggered and verified installation via Home app remotely), but only started showing up on my minis at home 3 hours ago. The update panel is not that intuitive tbh. They should at the very least add the current OS version to the „up to date“ message so you don‘t have to back out through a gazillion sub menus to find your HomePods current version.
Not that it matters since this update adds nothing of value anyways. 20 releases later and they still didn‘t manage to do voice recognition in non-EN languages…
doesn’t that kind of go out the window though, as the public beta is already out, which is normally Dev B2…?!?
Thursday makes sense. As normally the Dev b2 is public b1. But Public b1 is already out. Day after the Dev in fact. So I “think” things will be on a faster schedule
no hasn't even been a week, it was out last Thursday
I'd speculate that we'd see 14.6 b2 next week. Maybe Wednesday. There's almost always a 2 week cycle for beta 1.
I'm guessing today or tomorrow. I don't see a 2 week cycle for a relative insignificant update. As noted above, I think this will be released prior to WWDC so I think they'll be on a weekly cadence, which allowing for Memorial Day here in the US, will land us pretty much on 5 betas and a release before June 7th. Of course, the wildcard is the new dialog asking if you want to stay on one beta vs another, but not sure you can straddle the iOS 14/iOS 15 divide with that given the profile. So I think they'll want this one shipped before everyone jumps over to the new profile on WWDC day.
Has this always been the case, even when public was released same day as dev beta 1?
Now onwards, all releases will be 99% bug fixes only.
The new features will come up in iOS 15.
One may think that, but we had iOS 13.5, 13.6 and 13.7, all of which were released in May, July and September of last year and carried some features in addition to bug fixes.
And Apple did commit to spreading out the feature releases over the course of a major release lifetime. That said, I would be surprised if there was much new going forward.
I much prefer that they rolled out features over time throughout the iOS lifecycle rather than rushing them. As far as I can remember, all the features they announced for iOS 14 are released.
It does not so far. My guess is that those will be added server-side.
