Apple has released a new update for its iPhone and iPad that includes features to help keep your device up to date with the latest security patches. Automatic updates are a great way to keep your device up-to-date with the latest security patches, and they can also help prevent potential vulnerabilities from becoming public. To configure automatic updates on your iPhone or iPad, you first need to create an Apple account and then sign in. From here, you can select which devices you want to automatic update for: your iPhone or iPad, or all of your devices in the family. You can also choose whether you want to have updates delivered through iTunes or through iCloud. Once you have selected which devices you want to automatic update for, you next need to decide how often you want updates delivered: daily, weekly, monthly, or never. You can also choose whether you want updates delivered on certain days of the week: weekday mornings, weekday afternoons, weekend mornings, weekends afternoons, or any other day of the week. Next, you need to decide how long it will take for each update to be delivered: minutes or hours? You can also choose whether you want updates delivered automatically when your device is turned on: always (recommended), when there is a new version of an app available (recommended), or only when there are specific conditions met (optional). Finally, decide if you want Apple’s push notifications sent when new updates are available: yes (recommended), no (optional), or both (optional). Once all of these settings have been set up on your iPhone or iPad, it’s time to start installing the new update! To install an update manually from within iTunes or iCloud on your iPhone or iPad, follow these steps: 1) open iTunes and click on the Update button at the top left corner of the screen 2) select which device(s) will be updated 3) click on Install 4) wait until installation is complete
Previously, Apple offered a single Automatic Updates toggle (which wasn’t enabled by default). If you opted-in, your iPhone or iPad would download the latest update in the background, and it would install it overnight if your device was plugged in and charging (after notifying you about it).
But what if you just wanted to download the updates but didn’t want to install them right away? You’d have to dismiss the prompts and reminders for updates on an almost daily basis. And as you might expect, this got quite annoying.
Apple has bifurcated this feature into two different parts. There’s now a second toggle just for downloading and saving the update for later.
Open the “Settings” app on your iPhone or iPad and then go to the “General” section.
Here, choose the “Software Update” option.
Now, tap the “Customize Automatic Updates” option.
First, tap the toggle next to the “Download iOS/iPadOS Updates” option.
Once you do this, a new toggle called “Install iOS/iPadOS Updates” will appear. If you want to automatically install iOS or iPadOS updates overnight, tap the toggle to enable the feature.
Even if you do enable the “Install iOS/iPadOS Updates” feature, you’ll still get a notification before the updates are installed overnight (just like you used to before iOS 13.6).
Now, you can have the best of both worlds. New iOS and iPadOS updates will always be downloaded and ready to go. You can just go to the “Software Update” section and install them whenever you’re ready (without waiting to download them first).
If you don’t want to enable automatic updates, you can still update your iPhone or iPad whenever you want.
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