When Apple Might Release iOS 17 for Your iPhone – CNET

Apple introduced iOS 17 at its June keynote occasion, and the subsequent iteration of the working system is predicted to incorporate new options like Standby mode and enhancements to apps like Messages when it is launched to most people. But to this point the tech big has solely mentioned the replace might be launched within the fall, which is not very useful.

If we have a look at previous Apple occasions in September and earlier iOS releases although, a sample emerges to indicate we must always count on Apple to launch iOS 17 a number of days after this 12 months’s September occasion. 

I reached out to Apple about when it deliberate on holding its September occasion and when it was planning to launch iOS 17 and the corporate did not reply. But here is once I suppose Apple will launch iOS 17 primarily based on what I see in my crystal ball.

When is Apple’s September occasion?

Well, it is… in September. That’s as a lot as we all know proper now. Apple is fairly good at conserving secrets and techniques, and it hasn’t given a particular date for the occasion but. But Bloomberg’s tech reporter Mark Gurman expects the occasion to be held on both Sept. 12 or 13, and I belief Gurman. 

What makes you suppose iOS 17 will come out shortly after the occasion?

Apple is likely to be secretive, but it surely’s additionally predictable. 

For greater than a decade, Apple has constantly held occasions each June and September. The firm might need different particular occasions in March (see 2022) or October (see 2021) however its June and September occasions occur yearly like clockwork.

And after most of Apple’s September occasions, the corporate launched the subsequent iOS throughout the following week. In 2018, for instance, Apple’s occasion was held on Sept. 12 (sound acquainted?) and it launched iOS 12 5 days in a while Sept. 17. 

There have solely been three years over the previous decade the place it took longer than every week for Apple to launch the subsequent iOS model — 2019, 2014 and 2013. Even in these cases, Apple nonetheless launched the subsequent iOS model eight or 9 days after its September occasion. 

The variety of days between Apple’s September occasion and the discharge of the subsequent iOS model has additionally trended downward over the previous decade. In 2013, Apple launched iOS 7 on Sept. 18, eight days after its Sept. 10 occasion, and final 12 months Apple launched iOS 16 on Sept. 12, 5 days after the corporate’s Sept. 7 occasion.

So my guess is Apple will launch iOS 17 both 5 – 6 days after its September occasion this 12 months.

Which days of the week had been previous iOS variations launched on?

All the iOS model updates had been launched throughout the week over the previous decade. Apple launched 9 of the previous 10 iOS variations between Monday and Wednesday and one iOS model on a Thursday. Apple hasn’t launched an iOS model on Friday, Saturday or Sunday over the previous decade.

Wednesdays and Mondays are common days for Apple to launch iOS variations, with 4 iOS variations being launched on a Wednesday and three variations on a Monday. Apple additionally launched two iOS variations on Tuesday. So it is extra doubtless that Apple will launch iOS 17 on a Monday or Wednesday.

Look, simply inform me when iOS 17 might be launched

If Gurman is correct and Apple’s occasion is held on both Sept. 12 or 13, and Apple releases iOS 17 5 – 6 days later, we get a timeframe of Sept. 17 to 19. 

However, Apple traditionally hasn’t launched iOS updates throughout the weekend and Sept. 17 is a Sunday this 12 months, so we are able to rule that time out. That provides us a possible iOS 17 launch date of Sept. 18 or 19. 

And since Apple has launched previous iOS variations on Monday extra usually than Tuesday, I’m predicting Apple will launch iOS 17 on Monday, Sept. 18. You heard it right here first.

For extra on Apple, take a look at what iOS 17 options I’m enthusiastic about and how one can obtain the iOS 17 public beta now.