This year’s Worldwide Developers Conference started from June 5, and Apple unveiled the next major operating system for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch – iOS 11 at WWDC 2017 keynote. With a number of new features, iOS 11 will absolutely deliver users better experience with their iOS devices than ever before, especially for those iPad users.
Notably, there are many exclusive features will come into iPad in iOS 11, including:
Of course, iOS 11 also brings many great new updates for iPhone (most of them are also available on iPad). Here are the main features:
In addition the features mentioned above, there are also many minor iOS 11 new features like QR scanning with Camera app, screen recording, animated album in Photos and more.
iOS 11 is compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch with 64-bit processors. That is to say, iPhone 5, iPhone 5c and iPad 4 won’t be able to install iOS 11. And here are iOS 11 supported devices:
Currently, the first iOS beta is available to developers, and the version beta for public testers is expected to be released in late June or early July.
You can follow this tutorial: How to Download and Install iOS 11 Beta to update your device to iOS 11 beta. But please note that iOS 11 beta can be buggy and you’d better backup your iOS device before updating.
Apple released iOS 10 on September 13 last year. So far, what we can confirm is that Apple will launch iOS 11 in this fall, along with iPhone 8 and iPhone X. Considering the release date of new iOS version over the past 5 years, iOS 11 may be released between September 15 ~20.
[Updated: Apple has disclosed the the release time of iOS 11 final version, you can refer to this post to know the release time for Australia, India, UK, USA and China.]
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