iOS 16
Sign in to savesixteenth major release of iOS, a mobile operating system developed by Apple Inc.
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It sits within the topics 2022 software, Ios and Mobile operating systems.
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Key facts
- Developer
- Apple
- General availability
- September 12, 2022 ; 3 years ago ( 2022-09-12 )
- Latest release
- 16.7.2 (iPhone XS and later) (October 25, 2023 ; 2 years ago ( 2023-10-25 ) ) [ ± ] , 16.7.16 (iPhone 8, iPhone 8 Plus, and iPhone X only) (May 11, 2026 ; 31 days ago ( 2026-05-11 ) ) [ ± ]
- Available in
- 41 languages
- Kernel type
- Hybrid ( XNU )
- License
- Proprietary software with open-source components
- Preceded by
- iOS 15
- Succeeded by
- iOS 17
- Official website
- iOS 16 at the Wayback Machine (archived August 2, 2023)
- Tagline
- Personal is powerful.
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- software version
- Series
- Unix
- Followed by
- iOS 17
- Follows
- iOS 15
- Based on
- iOS 15
- Developer
- Apple Inc.
- Platform
- iPhone 8
- Official website
- www.apple.com/ios/ios-16-preview
Show 10 more facts
- hashtag
- iOS16
- user manual URL
- support.apple.com/guide/iphone/welcome/16.0/ios/16.0
- Commons category
- IOS 16
- used by
- iPhone
- announcement date
- 2022-06-06
- update method
- over-the-air update
- GUI toolkit or framework
- Cocoa Touch
- derivative work
- iPadOS 16
- software version identifier
- 16.7.15
- publication date
- 2022-09-12
Sources (8)
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Encyclopedic overview
iOS 16 is the sixteenth major release of Apple's iOS mobile operating system for the iPhone. It is the successor of iOS 15, and was announced at the company's Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) on June 6, 2022, alongside iPadOS 16, and released on September 12, 2022. It was succeeded by iOS 17 on September 18, 2023.
It is the first iOS release since iPhone OS 1 to be exclusive to iPhones, as it drops support for the seventh-generation iPod Touch. The iPhone 7 and 7 Plus, iPhone 6s and 6s Plus, and first-generation iPhone SE would also be dropped. It is also the final iOS release to support the iPhone 8 and 8 Plus and iPhone X, as iOS 17 dropped support for these iPhones in 2023.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “iOS 16” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.