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iOS 17 Speculation Thread
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You need to asterisk that statement for whatever features come on the new phones. At this time in the iOS 16 beta last year, “Dynamic Island” wasn’t even a thing.
I believe that this beta is preforming so well that there is no need for another beta. Next thing will be the RC. Coming soon!
So many app updates (at least for me) today. Must mean RC is imminent.
We’re in the iOS thread, talking about iOS 17. Not tvOS. iOS is different, as there’s new iPhones tied to its release. tvOS is not reliant on new hardware.
RC comes after the event, with the exception of Covid year. Therefore chances of it coming out before it would be extremely abnormal and unlikely. I like the optimism though.
That pertained to anything being seeded today or this week that was allowed a beta 9 speculation. Usually iOS/iPadOS/tvOS seeds are group released together. Now that has happened maybe tomorrow we see a a beta 9 of iOS/iPadOS.
No. No it doesn’t. Devs don’t yet have the RC version of Xcode which they will need to finalize their apps.
Normally it would mean it’s a Monday. But today is the functional equivalent of Monday because of the holiday.
There are some apps that will be seeing support for the island soon. DoorDash, google maps, etc.
I won't but with the event a week from today and possible release just shy of 2 weeks from today. Still don't know what Apple is doing precisely with that example both using "a" builds. Now to see if anything happens tomorrow.
Not sure it's related, as Apple has not opened App Store submissions for iOS 17 SDK... there's another barrage of app updates coming early next week.
FWIW, I had 16 today and nary one mentioned iOS 17... so, no, not yet.
That’s nothing to so with iOS 17 though. That’s on the developers and iOS 17 isn’t going to change that, as they can support it on iOS 16.
Actually we’ve seen extra as well as less tvOS betas for an x.0 release a few times in the past. Yes, they’re usually linked, but not always.
It would be extremely abnormal & unusual for iOS to get another beta now, as it’s not the norm, especially since the build from beta 8 (or a couple builds higher) were loaded on the new phones already.
I’m confident enough (99% sure) that we won’t get a new iOS beta (iPadOS is excluded from this statement).
Additionally, beta 8 is extremely stable for the majority, with adds to my confidence.
Now, the real question is will we get 2 RCs this year?
Typically, no. IF B8 is stable (and it really seems solid, IMO), the RC should follow... and if it does, one RC should suffice. I guess we'll have to wait and see what happens in the next two weeks.
More support is definitely coming considering the entire 15 lineup is (allegedly) getting the Island.
You probably saw this posted this late Tuesday.
As you can see the rumor mill just threw in an another curve ball to speculate about, after the iPhone event, overnight store updates . . . go figure?
I believe he was talking about macOS Sonoma betas, which are on a different schedule compared to iOS.
Sonoma didn't go weekly after beta 5. Beta 5 came out on August 8th, beta 6 on August 22nd. However, beta 7 came on the 30 of August, so we might get a new beta for Sonoma this week.