There had been suggestions that it could be as soon as Tuesday, January 16, but that seems fanciful now. My suspicion is it is closer to the first of those options, but the fact that it took almost a week for the revised beta to appear could indicate Apple took the opportunity to add more wide-ranging changes.Īll of which means there’s no certainty as to when the final general release will be, but I believe it will still be this month.
In other words, is iOS 17.3 beta 3 just beta 2 with the boot loop problems overcome, or has Apple added further changes to keep it on track? The question that remains unanswered, however, is whether the previous week’s issues will have derailed Apple’s schedule for when the general release of iOS 17.3 will take place. That was cancelled when the issues with the developer beta arose. This is called iOS 17.3 public beta 3, even though technically it’s the second version, as there was no pubic beta 2. The next day, January 10, Apple released the public beta. As predicted, it’s been re-numbered, so developers have access to iOS 17.3 beta 3.