iOS 16.3.1 is rolling out today to iPhone users, alongside iPadOS 16.3.1 for iPad. These updates include fixes for iCloud performance, Siri and Find My, and Crash Detection optimizations for iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Pro models. Head below for the full release notes.
You can update your iPhone to iOS 16.3.1 by heading to the Settings app, choosing General, then choosing Software Update. The build number for today’s update is 20D67. It’s available for any iPhone capable of running iOS 16, which includes the iPhone 8 and newer.
“This update provides important bug fixes and security updates for your iPhone,” Apple says.
Top comment by Mike Wolf
What Apple needs to do is biennial OS release cycles. This way they can methodically work on optimizing and dogfooding the operating system, run it past security researchers, flush out any vulnerabilities and bugs, and fully bake the overall experience before the public ever sees it. Strict quality control shouldn’t be a foreign concept.
All Apple ever seems to be doing is playing catch-up and fixing the performance issues and patching the bugs they just introduced from a previous update. People shouldn’t have to be apprehensive about a software update because it might affect battery life or hardware performance. Those things shouldn’t be happening in the first place and is indicative of a larger problem. The very fact that people feel compelled to perform benchmark testing and battery life monitoring after every update just proves it, especially when that testing occasionally does reveal a degradation.
Here are the full release notes for iOS 16.3.1:
- iCloud settings may be unresponsive or incorrectly display if apps are using iCloud
- Siri requests for Find My may not work
- Crash Detection optimizations on iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Pro models
Alongside iOS 16.3.1, Apple is also rolling out the following updates for its other platforms today:
- HomePod Software Version 16.3.2
- iPadOS 16.3.1
- tvOS 16.3.2
- watchOS 9.3.1
- macOS Ventura 13.2.1
Have you found any other changes in today’s update? Let us know in the comments section below or on Twitter @9to5Mac.
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