iOS 15.1 includes two big features and a bunch of smaller ones. It’s also coming soon.
Your iPhone will have only recently got iOS 15, but already iOS 15.1 is on the horizon and rapidly approaching. Despite this just being a 0.1 update, it also looks set to bring some significant features and improvements to the iOS experience. These include the headline SharePlay feature, plus multiple camera improvements and more besides. Below we’ll run you through exactly what we’re expecting from it – which we have a good idea of thanks to betas. You’ll also find information on the release date and compatibility of iOS 15.1. There’s no official news on when iOS 15.1 could launch, but the fourth beta is already available, suggesting that a finished release will land imminently. Perhaps Apple could launch it on October 18, as it’s holding an event then, though that’s not expected to be anything iPhone related so we wouldn’t count on it. A leak covered by Apple Insider meanwhile suggested that it could land on October 25 — but this appears to be fake. For reference, most – but not all – updates to iOS 14 landed around a month apart from each other, so given that iOS 15 launched on September 20, assuming the updates for this follow a similar pattern we’re likely to get iOS 15.1 any time now. As for compatibility, if your phone can get iOS 15 then it can also get iOS 15.1. In fact, any model from the iPhone 6S onwards can. Thanks to the various betas we’re fairly confident of what we’ll see in iOS 15.
