Did you obtain iOS 17.4.1 on your iPhone after it was launched final Wednesday, March 21? Full particulars right here, and my closing verdict of whether or not you need to improve to it, follows on Thursday, March 22. That can replicate a outstanding circumstance, probably unprecedented: it’s simply been quietly re-released. However you might not be capable of get it simply but.
Here is what occurred. Final week, iOS 17.4.1 was launched, and never on the standard launch days of Monday or Tuesday, however on Wednesday. The replace itself had been sudden, coming so quickly after iOS 17.4, however the late-in-the-week added to its curiosity.
Then, the character of the safety fixes within the replace, mentioned right here by fellow Forbes contributor Kate O’Flaherty, got here later than typical.
Now, in a hat-trick of surprises, Apple has simply new variations of iOS 17.4.1 and iPadOS 17.4.1, as mentioned by Joe Rossignol at MacRumors after being noticed by MacRumors contributor Aaron Perris.
The brand new construct quantity is 21E237, in opposition to the virtually equivalent earlier construct quantity, 21E236.
How totally different might it’s, you ask? In all probability not very is the reply, and it’s most certainly a revised bug repair. Nonetheless, in the event you thought that was the top of the thriller, suppose once more.
Proper now, you possibly can’t obtain it. Effectively, you possibly can, in the event you obtain what’s referred to as the IPSW file from Apple to replace or restore your iPhone or iPad by means of the Mac’s Finder app, as an illustration.
In different phrases, the standard approach to replace, over-the-air, by going to the Settings app, clicking Normal, then selecting Software program Replace and clicking Replace Now shouldn’t be accessible. Your iPhone will say it’s updated already.
Perris had a further remark, by the way in which, saying that the brand new software program doesn’t differ from the outdated by including references to approaching iPads—flummoxing these pundits who imagine the subsequent iPad Professional will launch in a matter of days (right here’s once I suppose it should).
So, what to do? If this had been one thing actually pressing, Apple would have finished it as a Speedy Safety Response, however it hasn’t. So, if and when it arrives as an replace you possibly can obtain over the air, that’s when to behave.
I’ll preserve my eye on this case, so please verify again.
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