Microsoft's planned OneDrive cutoff leaves four older iPhone and iPad models on frozen builds
Microsoft plans to stop updating OneDrive on iOS 18 and iPadOS 18, an App Store notice says, though no cutoff date has been set. Teams with iPhones and iPads that cannot move to iOS 26 need a plan for photo uploads and file access before the last compatible build ships.
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- Evidence58
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- Hype gap+8
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- Confidence62
Apple's second 27.2 public betas are the same builds developers got a day earlier as beta 3. Testers can use what is visible now, but the Apple TV 4K and HomePod features in the code stay hidden until Apple announces them.
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- Evidence72
- Adoption
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- Hype gap+5
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- Confidence70
Apple seeded the third iOS 27.2 developer beta on October 5, 18 days before the iPhone Duo goes on sale with a Duo-only iOS 27.1. App teams now have to cover shipping iOS 27, the 27.2 beta other iPhones will get, and a 27.1 they can test in Xcode's Duo simulator.
Reality
- Evidence72
- Adoption
- Not scored
- Hype gap+8
- Incentives25
- Confidence70
Apple released beta 3 of iPadOS, watchOS, tvOS and visionOS 27.2 two weeks after beta 2, with new iOS and macOS builds alongside. The Health changes can be tested now, while Apple has not said what tvOS and visionOS add, and those changes may wait on rumored hardware.
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- Evidence70
- Adoption
- Not scored
- Hype gap0
- Incentives20
- Confidence72
Apple's iOS 27.0.1 stops the iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max restarting when Face ID fails, two weeks after iOS 27 shipped. The notes do not mention the setup error or the Require Attention trouble owners also reported, so those owners will only find out by installing it.
Perspective Coverage
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- Builder 19%
- Operator
- Operator 71%
- Investor
- Investor 10%
Reality
- Evidence72
- Adoption
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- Hype gap+20
- Incentives
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- Confidence70
MacStories puts iOS 27's hundreds of small app fixes ahead of the Siri chatbot
A three-month test of iOS 27 finds Siri AI's answers behind the frontier labs and its app hooks ahead of anything else on iOS. Teams planning against the assistant have two different bets to price.
Reality
- Evidence40
- Adoption
- Not scored
- Hype gap+15
- Incentives40
- Confidence55