Get your iPhones quick : Apple is secretly working on a new Io 17.1.2 update , ground on results in a news show land site ’s visitor data .
MacRumorsreported Monday that it had distinguish visit from browsers head for the hills iOS 17.1.2 , which has not yet been released to the public or even beta testers . The only plausible stopping point – other than an improbable case of sophisticated spoofing – is that Apple ’s intragroup team are test the coming update by visit sites on the public web .
The last time this happened ( as latterly asiOS 17.1.1 ) Macworld was able-bodied to double the results using our own web analytics , but that ’s not the typesetter’s case this time around . Nobody pass Io 17.1.2 has inflict Macworld .
When Apple launches a major update for the iPhone , iPad , or Mac , the company put out a beta examination reading before the prescribed launch . That elbow room , substance abuser and software developers likewise can strain it out and spot any bugs . This includes the big one-year X.0 updates , such as iOS 17.0 this summer , and even X.X update such as iOS 17.2 , which is already in genus Beta .
Given that it seems to be in intimate testing , it would be sensible to expect the 17.1.2 update to roll out to the public within a matter of days . This case is slenderly dissimilar , as most of Apple ’s corporate employees get the week of Thanksgiving as a vacation , and this update is therefore probable to be held back until next week . As MacRumors notes , last class ’s iOS 16.1.2 was released on November 30 , almost a week after Thanksgiving . That would put iOS 17.2 on pace for a mid - December release .
As for the actual substance of the update … that remains a mystery . X.X.X full point updates generally occupy themselves with bug mending and security updates rather than new features , but we do n’t yet know which ones will be address this time .
