Apple has made a change to its development process for iOS 28 and macOS 28, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. In his Power On newsletter, he said Apple separates development of each year's new operating systems into three major stages. Typically, each stage consists of four weeks of coding followed by a four-week convergence period.
This time around, the first stage of development for iOS 28 and the other updates apparently consisted of six weeks of coding and two weeks of feature convergence. This change gives Apple's software engineers more time to come up with new features. Employees say they like the change, indicating that it creates more time for coming up with ideas and exploring them before needing to lock things in.
Gurman did not reveal any specific features planned for iOS 28. The update should be available in beta in June and released in September next year.
Source: MacRumors · Summarized by HeadlinesBriefing