Apple iOS 16 Leak Is Disappointing News For Millions Of iPhone Users

With what is likely to be the last release of Apple’s iOS 15 iPhone software, iOS 15.5 now live, Apple’s attention, and ours, will turn to the next big thing: iOS 16.

We know the timetable: unveiling at WWDC, first developer release days or even hours later, public beta a few weeks after that and general release in September.

Well, we know the date of the unveil is Monday, June 6, so that’s where we start from.

But Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman has tweeted that this year, the first public beta will be late. That’s not good news for those Apple fans who aren’t developers but still want to try the new software as soon as possible.

Gurman says the usual process is that the public beta lands alongside the second dev beta. But that this year it’s scheduled to appear alongside the third dev beta instead, which will likely be in July.

Gurman has also said that there will be fresh Apple apps and new ways of interacting with the system. In which case, getting the wrinkles out sooner rather than later will be even more important.