iOS 17 will bring fewer improvements than originally expected

The next version of Apple’s operating system for iPhone and iPad, iOS 17 (and iPadOS 17) It will bring a number of smaller changes than what was originally proposed to Cupertino. Guilty? Neither more nor less than the next Virtual/Augmented Reality device which will arrive at the end of the year.

Apple has spent years working on its Mixed Reality (Augmented and Virtual) glasses and the operating system that will accompany them, currently called xrOS (unofficial). Now that its launch seems imminent, scheduled for the end of this year, Mark Gurman assures that all attention is paid to the development of these glasses

and its operating system, and therefore the improvements planned in the company’s roadmap for iOS 17 have been reduced.

In his new weekly newsletter, Power On (link), Mark Gurman says that iOS 17, currently internally called “Dawn”, may end up with “fewer major changes than originally anticipated” as Apple focuses more on xrOS, like we tell you, the operating system that the company’s mixed reality glasses will wear. Moreover, this reduction in changes It will also affect macOS 14, the operating system for Mac computers.

and which currently goes by the internal name “Sunburst”.

At this point it is important to remember that Apple’s latest release of iPhone and iPad software hasn’t been without its issues

, causing iPadOS to lag behind iOS for the first time in history. Stage Manager, present exclusively on iPadOS and macOS, had serious malfunctions that led to the release of both operating systems much later than iOS. So it’s no surprise that with a launch as big as Apple’s Mixed Reality Glasses, they want to be careful and not make big mistakes in updating the rest of the devices.