Each year Apple releases a major update for iOS, the operating system on your iPhone. The current version, released last year, is iOS 16, and it doesn’t take a genius to predict that 2023 will see the launch of iOS 17. This free software update will bring a raft of interface tweaks, bug fixes, and new features. It’s like getting a new iPhone without paying a penny.
In this article, we discuss everything you need to know about iOS 17. We cover its release schedule and when you can expect the beta and final versions to come out; how to get it when it does; the models of iPhone that are likely to be able to run iOS; and the features we expect and hope to be added in the new OS.
RELEASE DATE
iOS 17 will be announced and demonstrated at WWDC 2023 in June, and then rolled out to iPhones across the world in autumn 2023, almost certainly in mid-September. (The last time an iOS update was released outside September was iOS 5 back in October 2011.) It’s likely to follow closely on the heels of the iPhone 15 launch event. There was a gap of five days between the iPhone and iOS update in 2022, and six days in 2021. Over the past several years, the release of the new version of iOS has been fairly consistent:
iOS 16: 12 September, 2022.
iOS 15: 20 September, 2021.
iOS 14: 16 September, 2020.
iOS 13: 19 September, 2019.
iOS 12: 17 September, 2018.
Before this happens, a series of beta versions of iOS 17 will be released to testers, beginning with the first developer beta likely released on the first day of WWDC 2023.
