If you ask, you’ll get an answer, even from an Apple executive like Craig Federighi, senior vice president of software development. It now indirectly reveals a real insider tip to iPhone users: If you don’t want to wait any longer for software updates, you have to take action yourself and not rely on Apple’s automatic system.
With the iPhone: Apple intentionally takes more time with automatic updates
If you want, you can activate the so-called automatic system updates for the iPhone within iOS, then the latest update will be loaded and installed automatically. However, this feature obviously has a small timing problem. Quite a few users complain that it can sometimes take weeks for these automatic updates to reach users. How does this happen? A Reddit user also wanted to know this and wrote an email to Craig Federighi (source: Reddit).
To his surprise, he got a direct answer from the head of software development at Apple. As it turns out, are Such delays by the iPhone manufacturer are intentional and have a good reason. Federighi writes (translated):
Mateusz,
We gradually roll out new iOS updates, first making them available to those who explicitly look for them in Settings, and then starting rolling them out to devices 1-4 weeks later (after receiving feedback on the update), at which the automatic update is activated.
I hope it helps!
craig
Another tip, did you know? This is how the iPhone recognizes songs without an extra app:
Useful tip: If you don’t want to wait, you have to import software updates manually yourself
So Apple would first like to wait for user feedback in order to be able to make improvements or withdraw updates at short notice – both of these have certainly happened in the past. Means then in the end for impatient contemporaries: If you want the latest iPhone update immediately and don’t want to wait any longer for automatic updates, you have to search for and install the updates manually – Federighi’s insider tip, if you will. And where can you find these updates?
Another insider tip:
We open them settings on the iPhone, select the point “General” and then find the right entry on the second page on the following page “Software update”. The update is then hidden behind it – ready for download and installation.