Apple has already launched three small updates to iOS 17, however we’re nonetheless ready for the primary main replace, iOS 17.1. Due to a leak by a French regulatory company, we now know when it would arrive.

In response to Agence Nationale des Fréquences (ANFR), iOS 17.1 “shall be accessible to all customers no later than October 24.” The French company has been working with Apple in the course of the improvement of iOS 17.1 to satisfy the nation’s particular power transmission requirements. The ANFR ordered Apple to cease promoting the iPhone 12 final month after it detected excessive ranges of radio frequency radiation.

Apple has been testing iOS 17.1 for a number of weeks and is at present on the third beta. If iOS 17 releases on October 24, the ultimate launch candidate will arrive this week forward of its broad launch subsequent week.

The iOS 17.1 replace will accommodate the ANFR’s particular check protocol that “requires decreased energy when off-body on a static floor” in an effort to adjust to the company. For the remainder of the world, iOS 17.1 will carry Apple Music enhancements, AirDrop transfers over the Web, and double-tap for Apple Watch.

There are nonetheless a number of iOS 17 options ready to reach, together with Apple’s new Journal app. Apple says they’re coming later this yr, so it’s doubtless that the iOS 17.2 replace will arrive someday in early December.