Bloomberg reported that Apple has paused the development of iOS 18 for a short while, as the team working on the operating system update has encountered numerous bugs. The staff took an unusual week-long development break to also address various bugs in macOS 15, watchOS 11, and tvOS 18.
According to the report, Apple's software chief, Craig Federighi, is pushing company employees to focus on fixing errors rather than rolling out new features. Bloomberg's Mark Gurman says that this effort has been ongoing for several years, explaining why there have been so many delayed features in recent software launches.
In the past few weeks, iPhone users have reported problems such as overheating issues, widgets not working as intended, and even the phone randomly shutting down at midnight.
For Apple Watch users, certain things became largely unusable in recent weeks, and watchOS 10.1 excessively drained the Apple Watch's battery. While Federighi is right to focus on fixing bugs in iOS 18, there is much work to be done in current software updates.
So far, we've heard that Apple plans to launch productive artificial intelligence features with iOS 18. According to Haitong International Securities analyst Jeff Pu, this new system could finally add productive AI features to the iPhone by late 2024. It is also speculated that Apple will build hundreds of AI servers in 2023 and even more in 2024. Combining cloud-based AI and on-device data processing, Apple will offer its productive AI to iPhone and iPad users by late 2024, meaning it will be part of the iOS 18 cycle.
