Apple postpones development of iOS 18, macOS 15, and watchOS 11 due to issues – Apple

Apple has adopted an annual upgrade cycle for its flagship software platform, and with this pace have come concerns about bugs and stability of the platform. According to New report By Mark Gurman, Bloomberg Reporter Craig Federighi, Apple’s senior vice president of software engineering, has temporarily halted development of iOS 18 and macOS 15 to meet quality goals.

The purpose of the shutdown was to give developers time to address a number of bugs that surfaced early in the development process, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. Apple’s main goal is to fix issues that affect app performance to ensure that its users get a consistent experience from day one. Once these important issues are fixed, work can continue to add new features that were added to iOS 18, watchOS 11, and macOS 15.

According to Gorman, the week-long “pause” began last week after senior management identified a troubling number of “leaks,” that is, bugs that had not been found during internal testing. A week-long hiatus may not seem like a long time, but it represents a significant milestone for a company of Apple’s size and reach. “It’s a problem of 10,000 people writing code and causing problems in the operating system,” one of Gorman’s unnamed sources said.

Apple has reportedly completed work on the M1 version of iOS 18 / iPadOS 18 (codenamed Crystal) and macOS 15 (Glow). M1 marks the first major milestone in the development of Apple’s software platform. Stopped development refers to M2 releases of the above operating systems.

Within a couple of months, Apple released several updates to iOS 17 to fix the bugs that customers were encountering. iOS 17.1 solved the iPhone 15’s screen burn-in and keyboard responsiveness issues, among other things, while version 17.1.1 released today fixes the issue with wireless chargers in BMWs and the iPhone 15. Owners of the new iPhones also encountered the iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Pro A strange bug puts phones in an update loop when trying to transfer data from an old iPhone.