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Since the launch of the iPhone in June 2007, there have been 17 major releases of iOS. The current major version of iOS is iOS 17, released on September 18, 2023.
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From the introduction of machines not supporting the classic...
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Major versions of iOS are released annually. The current...
- macOS version history - Wikipedia
iOS version by device. These tables show the first and maximum version of iOS or iPadOS for each iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. Only major versions (e.g. iOS 13) are shown, not point releases (e.g. iOS 13.5.1). Information about which devices are vintage/obsolete was obtained from this page.
DeviceReleasedFirst IosMax IosiPhone 15 Pro / 15 Pro Max20231717iPhone 15 / 15 Plus20231717iPhone 14 Pro / 14 Pro Max20221617iPhone 14 / 14 Plus20221617Major versions of iOS are released annually. The current stable version, iOS 17, was released to the public on September 18, 2023.
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Development outside Apple
After Apple removed Steve Jobs from management in 1985, he left the company and attempted to create the "next big thing", with funding from Ross Perot and himself. The result was the NeXT Computer. As the first workstation to include a digital signal processor (DSP) and a high-capacity optical disc drive, NeXT hardware was advanced for its time, but was expensive relative to the rapidly commoditizing workstation market. The hardware was phased out in 1993; however, the company's object-orient...
Internal development
Meanwhile, Apple was facing commercial difficulties of its own. The decade-old Macintosh System Software had reached the limits of its single-user, co-operative multitasking architecture, and its once-innovative user interface was looking increasingly outdated. A massive development effort to replace it, known as Copland, was started in 1994, but was generally perceived outside Apple to be a hopeless case due to political infighting and conflicting goals. By 1996, Copland was nowhere near rea...
Changed direction under Jobs
Apple's financial losses continued and the board of directors lost confidence in CEO Gil Amelio, asking him to resign. The board asked Steve Jobs to lead the company on an interim basis, essentially giving him carte blanche to make changes to return the company to profitability. When Jobs announced at the World Wide Developer's Conference that what developers really wanted was a modern version of the Mac OS, and Apple was going to deliver it[citation needed], he was met with applause. Over th...
1.The Power Mac G5had special Jaguar builds.2.↑Tiger did not support 64-bit GUI applications, only 64-bit CLI applications.3.1 2 32-bit (but not 64-bit) PowerPC applications were supported on Intel processors with Rosetta.4.-bit Intel applications are supported on Apple silicon Macs with Rosetta 2. However, Intel-based Macs are unable to run ARM-based applications, such as iOS and iPadOSapps.Once the GM is released and final release date is known, the chart shows the total days up to final release, even if it is in the future. The "Days in Final" will show negative when the future release date is known. The canonical source of data is this table on Wikipedia. (Looks like the Wikipedia table has been removed .)
Sep 6, 2022 · iOS, formerly known as iPhone OS, is the operating system for the Apple TV, iPad, iPad mini, iPhone, iPod touch. iOS has four abstraction layers: the Core OS layer, the Core Services layer, the Media layer, and the Cocoa Touch layer.
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Jun 11, 2024 · Below you'll find a history of each version of iOS when it was released, and what it added to the platform. Follow the links for more in-depth information about that version.
