Yearly, we’re launched to a brand new model of iOS (alongside Apple’s different working methods) on the Worldwide Builders Convention in June. It then marches by way of an prolonged beta-testing interval earlier than being launched in September.
However a number of the key options of iOS are sometimes deliberate to be launched in subsequent updates. With iOS 18, the important thing Apple Intelligence characteristic didn’t arrive till iOS 18.1, with extra AI options in iOS 18.2, with much more coming in iOS 18.4—almost half a yr after the preliminary iOS 18 rollout.
Whereas Apple hasn’t but introduced iOS 19, it has been laborious at work on the massive iPhone improve for fairly some time and a few rumors have began to leak out, and it’s beginning to appear to be iOS 18 is considerably of a preview of how iOS 19 will go. Based mostly on probably the most dependable leaks and rumors, right here’s what you may anticipate when it arrives later this yr.
iOS 19: Launch date
Apple sometimes launched the newest model of iOS to the general public on the Monday following the iPhone launch occasion. Listed here are the discharge dates for the latest variations of iOS:
- iOS 18: Monday, September 16, 2024
- iOS 17: Monday, September 18, 2023
- iOS 16: Monday, September 12, 2022
- iOS 15: Monday, September 20, 2021
Based mostly on latest historical past, we anticipate iOS 19 to launch to the general public on both Monday, September 15, or Monday, September 22.
iOS 19: Beta
Yearly, the brand new iOS is introduced at WWDC with a beta take a look at for builders launched instantly (or at most, a day later). It usually takes 4-6 weeks for the primary public beta to be launched, coinciding with the second or third construct for builders. Apple releases the developer beta instantly after the WWDC keynote, which is anticipated to be on Monday, June 9.
- iOS 18: Monday, June 10, 2024
- iOS 17: Monday, June 5, 2023
- iOS 16: Monday, June 6, 2022
- iOS 15: Monday, June 7, 2021
What follows is a string of beta releases, sometimes eight or so in complete, earlier than the software program releases in September. We anticipate the identical schedule this yr with iOS 19. You will get prepared for the beta by signing up for the iOS beta program now.
iOS 19: Compatibility
We anticipate iOS 19 to be appropriate with each iPhone that helps iOS 18. That features:
- iPhone 16
- iPhone 16 Plus
- iPhone 16 Professional
- iPhone 16 Professional Max
- iPhone 15
- iPhone 15 Plus
- iPhone 15 Professional
- iPhone 15 Professional Max
- iPhone 14
- iPhone 14 Plus
- iPhone 14 Professional
- iPhone 14 Professional Max
- iPhone 13
- iPhone 13 mini
- iPhone 13 Professional
- iPhone 13 Professional Max
- iPhone 12
- iPhone 12 mini
- iPhone 12 Professional
- iPhone 12 Professional Max
- iPhone 11
- iPhone 11 Professional
- iPhone 11 Professional Max
- iPhone XS
- iPhone XS Max
- iPhone XR
- iPhone SE (2nd technology)
In fact, it would additionally assist the brand new iPhone 17 fashions that can launch across the similar time, and the brand new iPhone SE 4 (which can be known as the iPhone 16E).
As at all times, some options received’t be obtainable on older fashions, as they lack the {hardware} sources for it. We do suppose the Apple Intelligence and Siri enhancements will probably be obtainable for all iPhone 16 and later fashions, although.
iOS 19: New options
Extra Apple Intelligence with an LLM Siri
Probably the most important rumored change in iOS 19 to date is what some are calling an LLM (massive language mannequin) replace” to Siri.
The concept is to make Siri really conversational, very similar to the superior voice mode on ChatGPT is at the moment, however with the added benefit of accessing all of the on-device information and historical past to your iPhone and Apple providers.
This is able to be mixed with an extra enlargement of App Intents, that are hooks for builders to permit Siri to work together with and carry out actions inside their apps. These App Intents are getting an enormous enhance in iOS 18.4 to go together with Siri’s “private context” replace, and iOS 19 is alleged to increase the idea even additional.
One caveat: This subsequent massive evolution for Siri isn’t anticipated to land till 2026, as a part of an replace to iOS 19. In different phrases, simply as iOS 18.4 is “the massive Siri replace” for iOS 18, we are able to anticipate iOS 19.4 (or one thing prefer it) to be “the massive Siri replace” for iOS 19.
House app upgrades
Whereas not particularly talked about in any of the present leaks or rumors, we discover it laborious to consider that Apple received’t have some important enhancements to the House app, HomeKit, and associated providers in iOS 19.
Why? Effectively, Apple is anticipated to launch a wave of latest good residence merchandise all through 2025 and 2026. A brand new good residence hub is first: it’s an reasonably priced 7-inch pill that runs its personal customized working system (code-named Pebble) that has an interface much like StandBy on iPhone. It can assist Apple Intelligence, FaceTime, and tie in with different Apple providers however isn’t anticipated to have an App Retailer.
After that, doubtless in 2026, Apple is alleged to be engaged on a brand new indoor good safety digicam and a sensible doorbell that may use Face ID to unlock your door the way in which it unlocks your telephone. Additional down the street, a sensible residence product with a movable display screen on a robotic arm has been rumored, all of which would require deep integration with the iPhone and House app.
It’s laborious to think about Apple pushing into first-party good residence merchandise this a lot with out updating the considerably ageing and clunky House interface or introducing new options to it.
