Apple Briefly Paused Work on New Features for iOS 18 and macOS 15 to Clean Up Bugs

[MacRumors]

Apple briefly paused work on upcoming iOS 18, macOS 15, watchOS 11, and tvOS 18 updates last week in order to make a serious effort to address bugs in the future iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, Apple TV and Mac releases, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman.

Employees were told about a development pause last week, with engineers asked to focus on fixing flaws and boosting software performance.

Apple's software chief Craig Federighi has been making an effort in recent years to ensure that software bugs are addressed, sometimes resulting in features that need to be delayed. Sources that spoke to Gurman said that with the upcoming software updates, the software engineering management team working under Federighi found too many bugs that were missed in internal testing, leading to a week-long sprint to address the issues.

During that week period, all development on future features was stopped to allow engineers to work solely on improving the existing software. Apple is lifting the pause this week so that work on new capabilities for iOS 18 and its sister updates can continue.

Apple last month finished the first "M1" versions of iOS 18, iPadOS 18, and macOS 15. Work on further development was paused, with Apple also taking a brief break from working on iOS 17.4, expected to be released next March. Given that work on future software was only paused for a week, no release delays are expected next year.

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[gpat]

Now that's something new.

 

[johnalan]

I support this so ****ing much.

 

[inducecurrent]

“M1” would refer to “Milestone 1”, rather than the chip. I think that link is not quite right ⛳️

 

[Harry Haller]

2 year software cycles, please.

 

[contacos]

You’d think they are big enough to have two separate teams, one focused on fixing things and another one developing new things?

 

[modemthug]

About damn time, iOS 17 is a mess

At least fix FaceID, seeing as it was like— a key selling point warranting dozens of promotional videos about how “revolutionary” and totally reliable it is

 

[Kissmo1980]

Aaaaa Ok…
Craig - why is my AWU2 still loosing battery like crazy??

Unless 10.1.1 releases today? 🤔

 

[transpo1]

It looks like Tim Apple and the Senior Executives have finally gotten the message.

 

[jz0309]

That is actually a very good move, but honestly I doubt that 1 week is/was sufficient…

 

[gank41]

It would be great if true, but I HIGHLY doubt this. Gurman isn't always right, or doesn't always have the whole picture. Remember when Craig went on stage and said they're going to take filed Feedback more seriously?? Oh, I also have a bridge to sell you.

 

[robertosh]

They should dedicate the full year!

 

[Apple_Robert]

I hate the creepy crawlers. Glad Apple is working more to get rid of as much as they can.

 

[Fuzzball84]

They need to enable high powered mode on fixing things

 

[daanodinot]

Good! Now do a year.

 

[Mousse]

'Bout time. Let the bug hunt begin.

 

[gank41]

Wasn't iOS 17 billed as the "SL Release" we all wanted, all while still adding in a bunch of features?

 

[i-Liam]

iOS has been awful for years when it comes to bugs.

Craig Federighi should have went years ago.

Software quality control has been garbage on his watch.

 

[Populus]

Thank God. They should do this sort of clean up at least once every year. Performance, stability and lack of bugs should be the foundation of every software release.

 

[nvmls]

About time Apple.

 

[Jerry Fritschle]

You’d think they are big enough to have two separate teams, one focused on fixing things and another one developing new things?

Who said they don't? But certainly the new OS will benefit from the commits being done during the bug-bashing. At least, we should hope so.

 

[scrapesleon]

This is was the type of embarrassment we were running from

 

[Rokach]

Right move, Apple hardware getting better and software is so bad I miss iOS 6 days hope iOS 18 will bring them back

 

[t0rqx]

It took em 7 years to realise that?

 

[t0rqx]

This is was the type of embarrassment we were running from

Courage is more appropriate .