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Apple Reportedly Delays Two New iPhone Features Until iOS 27

eveluvsrainbows said:
Can we stop reporting on every single little thing Gurman says? He's not as reputable as MacRumors and other sites make him out to be, and every single little rumour that circulates needs to stop being reported on. He doesn't know everything, and he definitely doesn't know what Apple is doing. He doesn't work for Apple, and he could be getting fed false information.

We won't know until the actual keynote on Monday as to what will actually be in iOS 26. We don't even know if its guaranteed that Apple will be moving to a new versioning scheme or not. It could still end up being iOS 19 for all we know.

Treating Gurman as an accurate news source is insane. Bloomberg, particularly Gurman, gets a billion things wrong. We should only report on actual news, and actual feature announcements. Therefore we should only rely on Apple and user reports as an accurate source for information rather than cover every little thing Gurman says and pass it off as accurate or newsworthy. Or, if a rumour is to be reported on, it should only be reported on if multiple sources corroborate the rumour. Publishing articles based on rumours from a single source is just silly in my opinion. I get its called Mac"Rumors" but rumours also take the fun out of OS release coverage. I'd be happier if rumours were just not reported on in the first place and release announcements were still held under suspense like they used to be.
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Comes to a rumors site... Whines about too many "rumors."
 
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contacos said:
Why does it require an OS Update to update a single app anyway? The whole thing is ridiculous. Just provide a calendar update from the app store when it's ready? Google changed this forever ago.
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Because apple claims their users are too stupid to update the apps so then the versions don't line up. It has, and always will be a cop-out on apple's part.
 
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So correct me if I’m wrong, but wasn’t it Gurman in the first place to talk about these changes? And now he’s back paddling…
Typical…
 
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I'm guessing that we'll get the new UI rollout to only about half of Apple's apps. Why? Because Cook has no understanding of Tech and again has overpromised in order to cover up Apple's absolute failure at AI.
 
IMO major OS updates should be only released if there's a change in one of the core APIs and frameworks or a new, previously unseen hw/functionality will need to be supported.
and system apps - much like third party ones - will have their own compatibility requirements and will be updated/released as soon a certain feature becomes available, just like the third party ones.

now, do I personally want an annual major OS release? nope, not at all. I am immune to those numbers, codenames, mascots. give me a stable, well tested, well engineered base. I don't mind seeing two digit numbers in the version number for the minor release or the revision part. a larger major version number doesn't guarantee anything good, I prefer to be impressed by the smoothness and reliability of the OS rather than an ever increasing number. hope I am not alone with this.
 
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Calle68 said:
American people are interested in things like sleep health, knowing when your mother land at LA, pilates, NFA scores, making 4k of family that simply the entire world don't give a ****. Focus on real people needs!
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What American people are you referring to?
 
you know apple isn't the same anymore when macrumors is actively critical of it.

i remember just a few years ago how blindly users here made excuses for apple. happy to see this change in the community. sad to see this change in apple.
 
With the press leaning so heavily into the year version numbers, it would be really funny if that rumor turns out to be false and we get a normal version number increment this year. I'm loosing hope that it is though.
 
BB1970 said:
I'm not a developer so I have no idea how much time and resources are needed for app development. But... I do know that apple is a trillion dollar company. So it legit amazes me that enough coders and such aren't hired and used to push features on time. I don’t want half baked apps either, but then again, you'd think that with all that cash on hand, they could release all the features on schedule.
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We don’t know the schedule. We only know what the rumors suggest.

As far as Apple being a trillion dollar company, two doctors can’t deliver a baby in half the time of one doctor.
 
AssassuN said:
they'll tell you you're wrong and say that's not how software development works. but you put more bodies to anything, and it'll get done faster.

we have to stop excusing trillion dollar companies.
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That's not how software development works. That's not the way most things work. There's a limit to how parallel you can be in solving most problems. The more complex the problem, the harder this can be. You need to build the first floor before you build the second, for example.

It's also a major source of bugs-- a lot of bugs happen because two developers didn't communicate on how their parts of the code were meant to interact. The number of interactions grow much much faster than the number of developers.
 
AssassuN said:
they'll tell you you're wrong and say that's not how software development works. but you put more bodies to anything, and it'll get done faster.

we have to stop excusing trillion dollar companies.
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It’s not too different from trades - take a massive electrical install for example.

If you throw 100 electricians that are average at best, and 50 electricians that know what they’re doing, the 50 will outperform the 100 ten times out of ten.

And it’s not easy to find developers of that caliber - they’re usually happily working somewhere else like Google, Tesla or OpenAI
 
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MacRumors said:


iOS 26 is rumored to feature a glassy design, new Games and Preview apps, and more, but two other enhancements have reportedly been delayed until next year.

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In his list of WWDC 2025 expectations today, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman today said that Apple has postponed the launch of revamped Calendar and Health apps until iOS 27 or later, as it needs more time to develop these planned changes.

Gurman did not reveal any specific changes planned for the Calendar app, but Apple's acquisition of Mayday Labs in April 2024 could hint at the company's plans.

Mayday Labs had developed an AI-powered calendar, task manager, and scheduling assistant for the iPhone, iPad, and Mac. The all-in-one app used AI to automatically schedule your events and tasks at ideal times, and it could learn your scheduling preferences and daily patterns over time to further optimize your calendar.

Mayday's website said its app worked best when you used it with others. For example, it could automatically schedule a meeting at a time where both you and a co-worker were available. It also offered automatic rescheduling for flexibility.

The app was shut down shortly after the acquisition.

It would be reasonable to assume that some of Mayday's features and technologies could be added to Apple's Calendar app across the iPhone, iPad, and Mac, under the Apple Intelligence umbrella. But, it appears that will have to wait for iOS 27.

As for the Health app, Gurman has previously reported that it will get a new AI-powered health coaching feature that offers personalized health recommendations. He initially expected the revamp to be part of iOS 19.4 (now iOS 26.4), but it now appears that it will not be ready until at least iOS 27 as well. That update will arrive next year.

Article Link: Apple Reportedly Delays Two New iPhone Features Until iOS 27
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How complicated can it be to update a Calendar app ? 🤷🏻‍♂️ Corporate bureaucracy at its worse.
 
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BB1970 said:
I'm not a developer so I have no idea how much time and resources are needed for app development. But... I do know that apple is a trillion dollar company. So it legit amazes me that enough coders and such aren't hired and used to push features on time. I don’t want half baked apps either, but then again, you'd think that with all that cash on hand, they could release all the features on schedule.
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Software is the classic example of how you can not simply add workers and get s faster result. It is kind of like trying to get nine women to make a baby in one month. Some things need to be done serially and you need time to iterate and review, and rework.

With software, it is the quality, not the quantity of workers. OK, an exception is testing. you CAN put a ton of people on that and find problems fast. But then you have to assign bugs to engineers and track the fixes and fold them all together, this is a bottleneck that is hard to speed up.

What you want is a smaller number of smarter workers. In software, in any small group of about 6 people you will find the best is twice as productive as the average. There is a large diversity of productivity
 
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All I want are better Fitness and Health apps. Maybe even combine them or at least do something with all the tonnes of data they hoard. Instead, we get new Genmoji’s. Once my AWU 2 contract ends, I’m getting a Garmin.
 
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ikramerica said:
Maybe devote fewer resources to new themed watch faces every theme month and more to what matters?
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Because those art designers would be easily repurposed to LLM deployment?

No, the biggest impact is all the government regulatory action happening right now which is forcing major changes to current code on an extremely tight schedule and disrupting the roadmap everyone thought they were on.
 
These articles are just depressing at this point. I'll wait for the keynote, and I still love my Apple products, but I am expecting these products and systems will be nearly the same for the next 2-3 years. I'll believe evolutionary/revolutionary changes when I see them.
 
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