{"id":44293,"date":"2024-07-31T11:38:04","date_gmt":"2024-07-31T15:38:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=44293"},"modified":"2026-02-17T13:47:58","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T18:47:58","slug":"ios-17-6-and-ipados-17-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/31\/ios-17-6-and-ipados-17-6\/","title":{"rendered":"iOS 17.6 and iPadOS 17.6"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2024\/07\/29\/apple-releases-ios-17-6\/\">Juli Clover<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/support.apple.com\/en-us\/118723#a176\">release notes<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/support.apple.com\/en-us\/HT214117\">security<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/developer.apple.com\/documentation\/ios-ipados-release-notes\/ios-ipados-17_6-release-notes\">developer<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2024\/07\/29\/apple-releases-ios-17-6\/\">\n<p>There are no notable features in the iOS 17.6 and iPadOS 17.6 updates, with Apple adding unspecified bug fixes and security updates. Nothing new was discovered during the beta testing process.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@ridogi\/112878944403925344\">Eric deRuiter<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@ridogi\/112878944403925344\">\n<p>Updating to iOS 17.6 now prompts to enable Stolen Device Protection on the first boot. This will lead to some people getting locked out of their phones and requiring an erase and restore because the drawback to enabling it is not made clear to the user.<\/p>\n<p>Presumably it will prompt at each future update as well, just as I have to decline to enable Siri at every single update.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/20\/ios-17-5-1-and-ipados-17-5-1\/\">iOS 17.5.1 and iPadOS 17.5.1<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/26\/janky-apple-id-security\/\">Janky Apple ID Security<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/15\/stolen-device-protection-in-ios-17-3\/\">Stolen Device Protection in iOS 17.3<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Juli Clover (release notes, security, developer): There are no notable features in the iOS 17.6 and iPadOS 17.6 updates, with Apple adding unspecified bug fixes and security updates. Nothing new was discovered during the beta testing process. Eric deRuiter: Updating to iOS 17.6 now prompts to enable Stolen Device Protection on the first boot. This [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2024-07-31T15:38:07Z","apple_news_api_id":"00fa9787-4258-43f4-b153-156affa4aa6d","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2024-07-31T15:38:07Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AAPqXh0JYQ_SxUxVq_6SqbQ","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[707,1572,31,2321,2304,1814,2322,2305,48,2885],"class_list":["post-44293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-apple-id","tag-face-id","tag-ios","tag-ios-17","tag-ios-release","tag-ipados","tag-ipados-17","tag-ipados-release","tag-security","tag-stolen-device-protection"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44293"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44294,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44293\/revisions\/44294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}