Not flagging security patches is a tremendous problem. Why be a guinea pig if you don’t have to, right? That said, this can be dealt with by delaying things a day or two, not for a month. It wouldn't necessarily be a bad IT policy to deliberately not install the latest updates and to wait to see whether a new update causes things to blow up. Apple updates have a history of doing bad things to iOS devices. The users who are willing to wait are the ones that would have never chosen auto-updates.īy the way, auto-updates themselves are not necessarily the safest route. This raises so many questions and some very serious concerns for IT and security admins whose users work with iPhones and iPads for business.įirst, doesn’t this directly contradict the implied intent of auto-update? Users select this option so that they are best protected. In short, despite activating auto-update, users may wind up waiting a month for a security patch unless they dig into settings every day on the off chance there’s an update to be found.
And then 1-4 weeks later - after we’ve received feedback on the update - ramp up to devices with auto-update enabled.” In a Reddit conversation with user Mateusz Buda - it was first reported by Forbes - Federighi said: “We incrementally rollout new iOS updates by first making them available for those that explicitly seek them out in Settings.
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