Did you obtain iOS 17.4.1 to your iPhone after it was launched final Wednesday, March 21? Full particulars right here, and my remaining verdict of whether or not you must improve to it, follows on Thursday, March 22. That may replicate a outstanding circumstance, probably unprecedented: it’s simply been quietly re-released. However you could not have the ability to get it simply but.
A brand new model of iOS 17.4.1 has been revealed.
David Phelan
This 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 common.
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 or not it’s, you ask? Most likely not very is the reply, and it’s most definitely a revised bug repair. Nevertheless, for those who thought that was the tip of the thriller, suppose once more.
Proper now, you possibly can’t obtain it. Effectively, you possibly can, for those who obtain what’s known as the IPSW file from Apple to replace or restore your iPhone or iPad by way of the Mac’s Finder app, as an illustration.
In different phrases, the standard method to replace, over-the-air, by going to the Settings app, clicking Normal, then selecting Software program Replace and clicking Replace Now isn’t out there. Your iPhone will say it’s updated already.
Perris had a further remark, by the best way, saying that the brand new software program doesn’t differ from the outdated by including references to imminent iPads—flummoxing these pundits who imagine the subsequent iPad Professional will launch in a matter of days (right here’s after I suppose it can).
So, what to do? If this had been one thing actually pressing, Apple would have accomplished it as a Speedy Safety Response, but it surely 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 maintain my eye on this example, so please test again.
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