Although what is on the agenda right now is iOS 11.3, iOS 12 is already on the horizon and in recent days enough news has begun to circulate of what we can expect to bring us the next great update what will our iPad y iPhone, so it is necessary to review what we are learning about her to prepare.
An update more focused on performance and stability than new
The main news we have had these days regarding what we can expect from iOS 12 It is one that may have disappointed many and it is that apparently in Cupertino they would have decided to postpone a good part of the novelties that they were going to introduce this year until 2019. Not all, it must be said, but those that are known to have been saved from burning (improvements for ARKit and its health app, for example), are already announced for iOS 11.3.
This is sure to disappoint many, but it must be said that it has its positive side and that is Apple would have decided to make this move so that he could focus on performance and stability improvements, which may not attract us so much attention, but it is essential to achieve a good user experience and is the basis of quality software.
It must also be recognized that iOS 11 He already left us a good portion of news and despite how much they have done to squeeze the maximum potential of our devices, the iPad Above all, it has encountered a relatively slow adoption rate, for which it is surely to blame that all these new functions have arrived accompanied by a rather long list of bugs and complaints regarding loss of autonomy. It also doesn't hurt, on the other hand, to give users time to familiarize themselves with all the changes introduced.
The news that could come with iOS 12
Although it will not leave us as many changes as its predecessor did, we can count that iOS 12 leave us some other novelty It is of some importance that it can be brought to the fore a bit at its launch and we already have some candidates. One of them could be a complete renovation of iBooks (which with the first beta of iOS 11.3, in fact, has already changed its name), and that would be in line with some recent additions in Cupertino and with their plans to attack Amazon again in the field of e-books.
Another that we can put in our pools are the improvements in the parental controls, because in fact this is something Apple has announced, although without specifying when it would arrive. It does not seem that it is in the plans for iOS 11.3 however, (with it the authorization via facial recognition for purchases in the App Store is included, but we hope that there is something of more depth pending) so it is reasonable to assume that it will be in iOS 12 when they arrive.
It seems like a pretty safe bet to also wait for news for him. Apple Pencil, especially considering that it could be renewed this year along with the iPad Pro 2018 and that there have been rumors even that those of the apple want to make it compatible with their next iPhone as well. There has already been a lot of information pointing out that, in general terms, they want to make it a useful tool for a wider audience, not only for artists, which implies providing it with more everyday functions, in the style of the S Pen.
When and who will iOS 12 arrive?
This is the part where it is easier to make predictions and that there have been no leaks so far, but because we do not need them either, since Apple has a calendar quite fixed regarding the launch of each new version of iOS and the only thing we hope to discover progressively are the exact dates for each of the great moments of it.
We can therefore hope that the official presentation of iOS 12 take place in the WWDC, which is their developer conference, which normally takes place in June. It will be then when we will know the main news. Shortly after, the first betas for developers will begin to arrive, with which we will already have all kinds of sizes. Finally, in the month of September, along with the new iPhones (and it seems that the new iPad Pro 2018) will be announced for all users with compatible devices.
And with this we come to a question in which there are still important unknowns, which is what devices is going to arrive. Considering that it is expected to focus on improving performance and stability and thinking above all about what has been lost there with iOS 11, it seems unfortunate that it will not reach all the models that this one did, but precisely remove From the list to the furthest behind in hardware I could make it simpler and it is true that in it there are some models that are already quite old (from 2013, no less) that are the main candidates to miss it (iPad Air, iPad mini 2 and iPhone 5s).