Apple just released iOS 16.3, the latest version of iOS 16, which itself was introduced in June last year and released in the fall with the iPhone 14 family. This year, iOS 17 will be released together with the iPhone 15 series, very probably in September, and today a new report is already talking about it.
According to this source, who has been reliable in the past when it comes to Apple-related things, iOS 17 will not introduce any major visual overhauls. In fact, you should pretty much expect it to look identical to iOS 16. Instead, the focus with the next release will be to increase stability and efficiency, and support Apple’s Reality Pro AR/VR headset.
To that end, iOS 17 will introduce a new dedicated headset app. This will presumably be a similar concept to the Watch app, but with “significantly more features.” The Home app looks set for a revamp, with “major changes” underway, along with minor “changes” to Where’s It.
Also, the Music app will reportedly see some changes related to navigation within it. The Mail app will be simplified “a little” and Reminders and Files will be improved, although we are not told how. Apparently, you should also expect minor changes to the Fitness and Wallet apps, the latter of which could be related to Apple Pay Later.
It seems that iOS 17 is designed to run on six devices with a dynamic island, of which two are already available iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 14 Pro Max. So it seems that all four upcoming iPhone 15 models will feature Dynamic Island, finally abandoning the notch.
According to other parts of the iOS 17 code, all four upcoming iPhones will have a USB-C port, but only two will support USB 3.2 speeds, presumably Pro and Pro Max. Non-Pro phones will be stuck with similar speeds as they get currently via Lightning.
Finally, the iPhone 15 Pro Max is said to feature “more advanced” image-processing software than the iPhone 15 Pro and a better cooling system (probably made possible, at least in part, by the fact that the phone is physically larger).
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