What day and time will you be able to download iOS 16.5?

• iOS 16.5 should arrive for everyone very soon
• Just like iPadOS 16.5 and macOS 13.4
• Rollout time shouldn't be a surprise

May 18 update: iOS 16.5 is availableas announced there, with the update procedure described in this same article.

Apple released an RC beta version of iOS 16.5 last Tuesday, May 9. Generally, and you know this if you follow us regularly, when a beta goes into RC version, it means that the final version is not very far away. And as the Californian firm has followed a rhythm of one new beta per week since the first test version of iOS 16.5, we caneasily target the date you can all benefit from it.

Let's see what the most likely hypothesis is on this subject. Note that these predictions apply both to iOS 61.5 and to the other expected updates: iPadOS 16.5, watchOS 9.5, tvOS 16.5 and macOS Ventura 13.4.

Banking on the fact that iOS 16.5 is currently experiencing its last test version, with the RC published on May 9, we can imagine that the final versionwould arrive the week of May 15(which wasconfirmed by Apple elsewhere).

What day exactly? This is where everything gets tricky. Because generally, Apple releases new versions of OS on Tuesday or Wednesday. But it also happens, more rarely, that Monday is chosen by the Cupertino company to deploy updates. And in fact, the latest evolution of iOS, iOS 16.4,arrived on a Monday, on March 27, 2023 precisely.

All the same, in our opinion, the most likely hypothesis remains that of Tuesday, followed very closely by that of Monday. Wednesday seems the least plausible to us.

You will therefore be able todefinitely download iOS 16.5 on Tuesday May 16, 2023. But be ready today, May 15, in case Apple rushes, as it did with iOS 16.4.

What time to download iOS 16.5?

As for the release day, the two hypotheses, that of Monday and that of Tuesday, are the same, as for the moment, uncertainty has no place. Indeed, for a good number of years now, and with rare exceptions,Apple rolled out its updates at 10 a.m. local time(California). This is equivalent to 7 p.m. French time.

You will therefore normally be able to download iOS 16.5 and other new OSfrom today May 15 at 7 p.m., or tomorrow Tuesday May 16 at the same time. Unless, as can sometimes happen, the Californian firm's servers are saturated. A phenomenon which results, for some, in the impossibility of seeing the update proposed on their machine from the first moments of availability.

What changes for iOS 16.5?

Find herethe list of all the new features concerning iOS 16.5, but also iPadOS 16.5, watchOS 9.5 and tvOS 16.5. For macOS Ventura 13.4,it's over there.

Editor-in-chief for iPhon.fr. Pierre is like Indiana Jones, looking for the lost iOS trick. Also a long-time Mac user, Apple devices hold no secrets for him. Contact: pierre[a]iphon.fr.