I don't think they would drop support for older devices, but the most cutting edge (read: processor intensive) features might be limited to newer phones.
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iOS 17 Speculation Thread
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its not like those two need as much beta testing compared to what iOS mostly represents vs iPadOS/tvOS probably entails. Thought it was weird they weren’t all bundled or at least a day behind last week? Yes it still could be Tuesday. We know next Tuesday is iOS beta 2 (12 days) typically.
I saw the Xcode beta bundle was compiled two days before the release, so it seems like changes were made last minute.
Would guess 17.5 likely will represent more improvement against what they trying to accomplish by March. That last minute changes also implies it’s hard to get everything working perfectly with 17.4 cycle.
Of course, they won't drop too many iPhones simultaneously. This was just a joke
I expect that some AI features could be limited to 13 series or later.
MacOS 14.4 beta OTA available now. Larger download 3.44GB (AS Macs) So possible things lumped with iOS 17.4 changes?
The Watch update is taking a very long time to install. Seems to be spending too much time "preparing."
Aaron Zollo said no sign of it at this point. IMO it could come the day after the superbowl
well it's not in the works as of this moment. Like I said could come in a couple of weeks but no sign for right now
Guess they wanted to synch the browser version to the same as yesterday macOS release 5 days later, maybe the kernel version also. Was 21e5184i now 21E5184k. 325.8 Mb update.
And just to do that it’s 325 megs?
Must be some other little Easter eggs in there surely at that size.
Identifiable Region now actually detects your region in the new build which I'm assuming was broken and also explains why no iPadOS as that isn't getting any of the EU changes.
Apple removed the downgrade to 17.2.1. I would bet over the next week we get a 17.3.1. Not always, but it seems to be a pattern that the ability to downgrade is removed when another update is imminent.
Why? I thought the 17.3 RC was pretty good. Except for security updates reasons it should be a great release to use for awhile. 17.4 might have you back to needing updates after it gets out.
