Final October we informed you that Apple was engaged on a system that may permit it to put in software program updates on a number of iPhone items even when they’re powered off, sitting of their retail containers inside an Apple Retailer. The expertise would permit these buying a brand new iPhone from Apple’s brick-and-mortar storefront to have that gadget come out of the field working the most recent model of iOS with out having Apple Retailer workers spend time manually updating every unit.
Final yr, the expertise would have been helpful since iOS 17.0.1 was launched earlier than the iPhone 15 line was accessible for buy. To replace iPhone items inside never-opened retail containers, a stack of those iPhone containers is positioned on a proprietary Apple-developed pad and every unit within the stack is wirelessly turned on, receives the iOS replace, downloads and installs the replace, and shuts down. The packaging shouldn’t be disturbed and the boxed iPhone items will run the most recent model of iOS when booted up for the primary time after being bought. Apple calls this method “Presto.”
By this coming summer time, Apple will be capable of set up iOS updates on iPhone items inside never-opened containers
Based on Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman in his newest Energy On e-newsletter, “Presto” employs MagSafe wi-fi charging and different wi-fi applied sciences to assist it full its activity. Gurman says that the pad resembles “a steel cubby for sneakers.” Whereas “Presto” was examined at sure Apple Shops across the finish of final yr, Gurman says that Apple will now roll out the expertise at Apple Shops throughout the U.S. in April. The plan is to have “Presto” accessible in all American Apple Shops this summer time.
We nonetheless do not know whether or not Apple will preserve this expertise for itself or whether or not it should permit its provider companions (equivalent to Verizon, T-Cellular, and AT&T) to replace their iPhone stock utilizing “Presto.” We are also at midnight about when Apple plans on permitting abroad Apple Shops to make use of the in-box updating system.
Final October we informed you that Apple was engaged on a system that may permit it to put in software program updates on a number of iPhone items even when they’re powered off, sitting of their retail containers inside an Apple Retailer. The expertise would permit these buying a brand new iPhone from Apple’s brick-and-mortar storefront to have that gadget come out of the field working the most recent model of iOS with out having Apple Retailer workers spend time manually updating every unit.
Final yr, the expertise would have been helpful since iOS 17.0.1 was launched earlier than the iPhone 15 line was accessible for buy. To replace iPhone items inside never-opened retail containers, a stack of those iPhone containers is positioned on a proprietary Apple-developed pad and every unit within the stack is wirelessly turned on, receives the iOS replace, downloads and installs the replace, and shuts down. The packaging shouldn’t be disturbed and the boxed iPhone items will run the most recent model of iOS when booted up for the primary time after being bought. Apple calls this method “Presto.”
By this coming summer time, Apple will be capable of set up iOS updates on iPhone items inside never-opened containers
Based on Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman in his newest Energy On e-newsletter, “Presto” employs MagSafe wi-fi charging and different wi-fi applied sciences to assist it full its activity. Gurman says that the pad resembles “a steel cubby for sneakers.” Whereas “Presto” was examined at sure Apple Shops across the finish of final yr, Gurman says that Apple will now roll out the expertise at Apple Shops throughout the U.S. in April. The plan is to have “Presto” accessible in all American Apple Shops this summer time.
We nonetheless do not know whether or not Apple will preserve this expertise for itself or whether or not it should permit its provider companions (equivalent to Verizon, T-Cellular, and AT&T) to replace their iPhone stock utilizing “Presto.” We are also at midnight about when Apple plans on permitting abroad Apple Shops to make use of the in-box updating system.
