Apple’s Craig Federighi Responds To Reddit User About Slow Auto-Updates

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Apple's Craig Federighi has confirmed that iPhone users wanting quick updates should manually update their devices rather than waiting for automatic updates. Apple releases major iOS updates once every year, with relatively minor updates being released multiple times every year. However, those updates often take weeks to reach all users, resulting in annoyance and frustration.

Updates are a contentious issue for all software, including operating systems like iOS, Android, Windows and macOS. While some people like auto-updates because they are easy and hassle-free, others like to have complete control over their own devices and would rather download updates manually in their own time. Either way, most people generally want their updates as soon as possible, so waiting for it weeks on end might be a frustrating experience.

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While manually updating iPhones is faster to get all the new features and bug fixes, many people simply let the auto-update feature in their device take care of the heavy lifting. However, folks relying on auto-updates for their iPhones and iPads have often complained that their updates are delayed by weeks, although Apple has never explained the reason behind that. However, that has changed, with the company's senior VP of software engineering Craig Federighi saying that delayed auto-updates are very intentional. Replying to Redditor u/Kechoopix's email about the slow auto-updates, Federighi is believed to have said that users wanting immediate updates should manually update their device rather than wait for the auto-update to kick in.

Federighi further said that Apple rolls out its iOS updates incrementally by first making them