Apple Preparing iOS 16.5.1 Update for iPhone Following iOS 17 Beta

[MacRumors]

Apple appears to be preparing an iOS 16.5.1 update for the iPhone, based on evidence of the software in our website's analytics logs last week. It's unclear when the update will be released, but it will likely be available either this week or next week.

Minor updates like iOS 16.5.1 are typically focused on bug fixes, stability improvements, and security patches, rather than new features. Apple's Lightning to USB 3 Camera Adapter does not work properly with iPhones running iOS 16.5, but the issue was resolved in the iOS 16.6 beta last month, so a fix is likely to be included in iOS 16.5.1 as well.

Apple released the first beta of iOS 17 at WWDC last week. The update will be publicly released later this year for the iPhone XS and newer, and has many new features, including a StandBy mode while an iPhone is charging in a landscape position, interactive Home Screen widgets, improved autocorrect, a Journal app, and more. For the first time, developer betas are available without a $99/year Apple Developer program membership.

Earlier this month, Apple revealed that 81% of all active iPhones were running iOS 16, but that percentage has surely declined following the iOS 17 beta. Apple will likely release iOS 17 in September, around the time that iPhone 15 models launch.

Article Link: Apple Preparing iOS 16.5.1 Update for iPhone Following iOS 17 Beta

 

[winxmac]

Waiting for iOS 16.9/iPadOS 16.9

 

[BorisDG]

Let's hope it's today or tomorrow.

 

[dumastudetto]

I can't wait to benefit from the latest bug fixes and performance improvements at the same time as everyone else on every supported Apple device. Only Apple can do this.

 

[anthogag]

I am waiting for the 17s, Sonoma, and tvOS public betas.

 

[Aurizen]

Isn't 16.6 suppose to be coming soon?

 

[vertsix]

Will they finally fix the lock screen player GUI issue in landscape?

 

[Lounge vibes 05]

Earlier this month, Apple revealed that 81% of all active iPhones were running iOS 16, but that percentage has surely declined following the iOS 17 beta.

It absolutely has not.
There are still more people buying new iOS 16 running phones, or updating their old phones from older versions to 16, then there are that will run the beta.
Most people don't even actively update their phones, they're not going to run a beta. Most people just wait for the phone to update itself.

 

[Digital Dude]

Looking forward to another feeble attempt by Apple to fix the numerous bugs in iOS.
🙄

 

[Cruncher]

I am quite happy with iOS 16.5 and my iPhone 14 Pro Max. Also Battery Life is finally more than ok. Getting at around 9-10h SOT. I hope 16.5.1 fixes the remaining bugs and that`s it. I still don`t know what iOS 16.6 is for expect iMessage encrypting thin or whatever. Here in Europe no one cares about iMessage.

 

[liquid05]

I hope this fixes the recently introduced carplay bug. Audio plays out of my phone instead of my car until I unplug/plug again.

 

[MacBird]

I hope this fixes the recently introduced carplay bug. Audio plays out of my phone instead of my car until I unplug/plug again.

There are quite a few Car Play bugs that can only be fixed by unplugging/plugging back in.

 

[stphammond]

‪Build number 20F74 according to @Fame_G_Monster on Twitter, who’s been able to fetch the IPSW files after they’re uploaded to Apple’s servers before the software is officially released. Applies to both beta and public releases. This is why I should’ve at least waited until at least iOS 16.6 beta 3 to update my iPhone XR to those betas after already updating my iPhone 13/iPad Air 4 to iOS/iPadOS 17 betas. Of course, if I had another device to run iOS 16 versions, I wouldn’t regret updating my XR to 16.6 beta 2 immediately after updating my main devices to iOS/iPadOS 17 betas. It would be nice if that other device were an iPhone 8/X (more likely an iPhone 8 in my case), as that would allow me to run all future versions of iOS 16, even after iOS 17 releases, similar to how I can do it on iOS 15 on my iPhone 6s and iOS 12 on my iPad mini 2.

 

[MacBird]

Isn't 16.6 suppose to be coming soon?

Probably in a few weeks.

 

[Jimmy Bubbles]

This will be the update to make your battery crap; they want to drive upgrades in a few months! 😂

 

[Love-hate 🍏 relationship]

I can't wait to benefit from the latest bug fixes and performance improvements at the same time as everyone else on every supported Apple device. Only Apple can do this.

I can't lie, this very thing is purely magical

Don't all windows devices receive the updates at the same time though?

 

[Feek]

As long as mobile Safari is snappier, I'll be happy.

 

[dumastudetto]

I can't lie, this very thing is purely magical

Don't all windows devices receive the updates at the same time though?

No. Updates get held back on Windows devices quite often. "Major" updates are not made available for months on many devices. It didn't help that Microsoft fired a lot of their QA/testing teams some years ago to lean heavily on community feedback.

 

[orbital~debris]

Looking forward to another feeble attempt by Apple to fix the numerous bugs in iOS.
🙄

Which ones are still a problem in your usage? I'm not running into any on my iPhone 14 Pro.

 

[coolfactor]

Good, cuz my iPad is not charging via the Camera Connection Kit. Please fix that in this release, Apple.

 

[coolfactor]

Looking forward to another feeble attempt by Apple to fix the numerous bugs in iOS.
🙄

Please, enlighten us. We eagerly await your laundry list. 😎

 

[JosephAW]

Hopefully they fix the delayed of the default keyboard coming up. They broke it with 16.3
Maybe my iPhone 14 Pro is just not powerful enough to display keyboard in real time

 

[JosephAW]

It looks like Apple has a new tactic to get people to upgrade to iOS 17, they introduced a whole bunch of bugs with final release of iOS 16 and will only fix them in the next iOS version

 

[sentiblue]

I'm totally pissed off with the 16.5 update. All swipes now lag anywhere from 1-10 seconds. Sometimes it lags so long that I keep thinking the swipe didn't register. The swipe is so bad that swiping becomes a tap and I accidentally open up news articles from FB instead of just reviewing the headlines.

Same lag in non-swipe actions too. Tapping the reply area of text messages sometimes takes 10s to show the damn keyboard. This is straight up stupid!

 

[k27]

I can't wait to benefit from the latest bug fixes and performance improvements at the same time as everyone else on every supported Apple device. Only Apple can do this.

Apple clarifies security update policy: Only the latest OSes are fully patched

New document confirms what security researchers have observed for a few years.

arstechnica.com

Not for DesktopOS?!
Show me another serious Desktop or Server OS (serious Linux distribution, Windows or serious BSD distribution) with such a short support, where only the current version (= 1 year) gets full support.