Apple’s iPadOS 16.1 update will ship after iOS 16 launches for iPhones - The Verge

Apple has confirmed rumors that iPadOS 16 won’t be releasing alongside iOS 16 for the iPhone. The company says the update for the iPad will be coming "this fall" as version 16.1.

Apple has confirmed that iPadOS 16.0 won’t be getting a public release and that the tablet-centered OS won’t be coming out until after iOS starts hitting phones. In a statement to TechCrunch, attributed only to “the company,” it said: “we have the flexibility to deliver iPadOS on its own schedule. This Fall, iPadOS will ship after iOS, as version 16.1 in a free software update.”

Despite Apple traditionally releasing iPadOS and iOS together, it’s always felt like this decoupling was a possibility ever since Apple split out the iPad’s operating system as a separate entity in 2019. (And indeed, the first version of iPadOS released as 13.1, less than a week after iOS 13’s messy initial rollout.) Still, it’s a pretty big change of pace for Apple — while the company has made a habit of delaying individual features from its mobile OSes, it’s a different thing entirely to push back the OS itself, skipping the initial version.

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This news, which confirms a report that Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman released earlier this month, comes alongside the first beta release of iPadOS 16.1. Currently, Apple’s developer site doesn’t seem to have any release notes for the 16.1 beta. The company is also releasing a new iOS 16 build for iPhone developers, but it’s for 16.0, not 16.1.

Apple didn’t immediately respond to The Verge’s request for comment on why iPadOS will be released later, skipping the initial version. However, many people on the beta for the upcoming OS have noted that its flagship feature, the Stage Manager multitasking system, feels very underbaked. When my colleague David Pierce previewed the OS, he said he hated Stage Manager, and prominent iPad user Federico Viticci recently tweeted a plea to Apple to delay the feature, reporting that he experienced crashes “every few minutes” and “UI glitches everywhere” while using it. He also said that he considers some parts of the feature’s design to be “fundamentally misguided.”

https://www.theverge.com/2022/8/23/23318437/ipados-16-delay-release-after-ios-stage-manager


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