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The next iOS 15 update is expected to be revealed on June 7 at Apple’s annual WWDC dev-centric summit at an online keynote. As is tradition, we are certain that most all new features of iOS to be demoed on stage, but the most intriguing ones would likely be unraveled as soon as the first developer beta of iOS 15 arrives on the day of the announcement.
Now, what’s to expect about the new version of Apple’s OS? Given that iOS 14 was a pretty important update for iOS that overhauled a slew of things, most importantly the interface by adding widgets to the home screen, we don’t really believe that iOS 15 will add that much to that visual overhaul. This doesn’t mean you should curb your enthusiasm though, there’s plenty of spicy talk regarding iOS 15!
This year’s June 7 WWDC developer summit will be an online-only event, says Apple, and will “offer unique insight into the future of iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, and tvOS.” Aside from releasing a beta, this early reveal of iOS also gives plenty of headroom to app developers to prepare their apps for the upcoming changes and get up to speed on all the new features.
As far as the final launch of the official version of iOS 15, it will undoubtedly take place alongside the release of the iPhone 13 (iPhone 12S) series. Traditionally, iPhones are released in late September/early October, so expect the next version of iOS along those lines.
Word on the street is iOS 15 will open up the operating system to even more customization by allowing users to change even more of the default apps. iOS 14 kickstarted this trend by letting Safari and Mail be changed and an alternative be used instead. The latest iOS 14.5 beta lets you change your default music platform of choice as well, substituting Apple Music for Spotify, for example. This opening of iOS will likely persist in iOS 15 as well.
iOS 14 introduced widgets, which are a great new addition to Apple’s OS, but in their current state, widgets are simply not as useful on iOS as they are on Android because they aren’t interactive. iOS 15 is rumored to be introducing interactive widgets that the user will be able to interact with, i.e. change volume, enable specific toggles, and so on. More sizes are also reportedly coming to widgets in iOS 15: currently, we have small, medium, and large, but a bunch of new in-between sizes could arrive. This will make the widget support on iOS 15 much more useful and more customizable.
The Settings menu is a staple of iOS that houses all of the possible device settings you might want to tinker with. It’s been largely kept the same for the past years, scoring tons of new features and menus that have gradually made it less and less intuitive. A redesign could help Apple solve that problem and make things a bit more intuitive once again.<
One of the big rumors about the iPhone 13 is that it would score a always-on display similar to the one found on the Apple Watch, which can scale down the refresh rate all the way down to 1Hz and waste just a minuscule amount of battery. The always-on display will certainly be hardware-dependent and won’t arrive on old iPhones, but iOS will also have to change to accommodate the new feature. Rumor is the lock screen will be updated so as to display notifications in a more friendly manner to suit the always-on display.
iOS updates tend to drop support for older iPhones. This wasn’t the case with iOS 14, which was supported on the same devices on which iOS 13 was available, but this won’t be reiterated by Apple’s next iOS version.
The iOS 15 update support will be dropped for the last iPhones with a headphone jack, the iPhone 6s and 6s Plus, as well as the original iPhone SE as only devices with an A10 or newer chipset will still remain supported.
Here’s what iPhones will most likely get iOS 15:
The latest iOS 14.5 beta pumped up the privacy of the iOS even further by automatically redirecting safe browsing data through Apple’s own servers and acting as a proxy of sorts, protecting you from the prying eyes of the advertising monstrosities prying for your data (looking at you, Google). Supposedly, we can expect similar privacy features to be part of iOS 15 as well.
