We are only a few hours or days away from having the final, public version of iOS 16.5 among us. Many thought this would be the last iOS 16 update before the first iOS 17 betas arrived. . It means that Apple is internally testing iOS 16.6 and will release the first developer beta soon of this software which would probably be the l ast before the first betas of iOS 17 which will be released from June 5, the date on which WWDC23 begins.
Apple is already testing the first beta of iOS 16.6 internally
In the next few hours, we will probably have the new iOS update among us: iOS 16.5. But that is not the question that concerns us today, but the news around iOS 16.6.
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The predictions are that the first betas of iOS 16.6 arrive at the end of the week or the beginning of next week. This would strongly correlate with the schedules Apple has always had with betas once updates are released globally. It also wouldn’t be surprising if this beta arrives on the same day as iOS 16.5 is released, but we won’t be able to find out until then.
What’s new in iOS 16.6? We don’t expect this to be a big update or the arrival of new features. On second thought: we are less than a month away from knowing the main new features of iOS 17, so wasting bullets to launch new features in software that is going to be “late” is not worth it. However, with Apple, we can never take it for granted and we’ll have to wait and see the release notes coming to developers soon.
