Update February 29, 2024: As expected in the article, the iOS 17.4 RC beta iswell released on February 28.
One of Apple's biggest updates is expected to arrive in the coming days. According to the latest information from @aaronp613 on X, the iOS 17.4 update release candidate is expected to be released tomorrow by Apple. This latest beta should allow the Apple brand to ensure the proper functioning of the update before launching it to the general public later in the week.
With this update, Apple must indeed change a lot of things in its operating system. The most important changes should only concern the European market, the arrivalof a new law on the old continent (DMA)being the reason for these sudden changes in Apple's practices for years.
Among these changes, the most notable are the arrival of third-party application download platforms. The App Store, which has so far only known a monopoly, will soon have competition. In addition to this size change, the DMA requires Apple to facilitate access to third-party browsers instead of Safari.
Also in the sights of European justice,iMessage finally managed to make its caseand Apple's instant messaging application should not be particularly affected by the arrival of this new update.
iOS 17.4: release next week?
Europe has given until March 6 to comply with the new European laws. Given Apple's glaring lack of enthusiasm in this matter, the Cupertino company is unlikely to make any effort and publish its update just a few hours before the deadline.
We should therefore expect a release of iOS 17.4 in the first days of March. This leaves a short week for this candidate version to be distributed to the beta testers' iPhones in order to ensure that everything is in order in the code of the new version of iOS.
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