iOS 17.5: These 2 new products should arrive before summer

Update of May 14, 2024:iOS 17.5 has been available since May 13, 2024.

Apple has not yet publishedThe slightest beta concerning iOS 17.5,But two features are already among the rumors around this update. According to initial information at our disposal, iOS 17.5 should accept that iPhone users in Europe download applications directly from websites. This feature should beThe great novelty of iOS 17.5, allowing Apple to comply once and for allto European DMA.

The App Store has a new competitor, the web

Has Apple opened Pandora's box? The Cupertino firm has just communicated on the distribution of applications from the web. It will be possible for eligible developers, thus freeing themselves from the rules and commissions of the App Store.

Apple has announced that this feature would be available "in the spring". For many analysts, close to the apple brand, iOS 17.5 should be used to introduce this option in all the iPhone in Europe.

For the time being, this privileged access should be limited to the most popular developers. According to Apple's criteria, a developer cannot be eligible if he has not previously been part of the Apple program for two consecutive years. The application must also have had some success. It will have to exceed one million downloads in the last calendar year.

Recovery contact

The other great novelty that should make his arrival with iOS 17.5 concerns a very distinct part of the iPhone. Here is a question of the Apple identifier and the recovery contacts of the latter. For the moment, only the analystNicolas Alvarezmentioned this modification, without giving a lot of details.

He specified in a message on social networks that the revisions operated by Apple would not necessarily be visible for the user.

Apple should launch iOS 17.5 before the end of May. The update will be the last change in iOS 17 beforeWWDC and the presentation of iOS 18. This new version of the iPhone operating system is expected as an upheaval for the apple brand.

In statements, journalist Mark Gurman announced that IOS 18 would be one of the most important updates in Apple's history, if notthe most important of all. What make us dream by waiting until June 10 and the opening of WWDC in Cupertino.