Apple is reportedly giving engineers more time to explore and build new features for iOS 28 before bringing that work together. The adjustment is said to cover iPadOS 28 and macOS 28 as well, although Apple has not confirmed the internal development changes.
The reported work comes less than two months after iOS 27 arrived for Canadian users on September 14. That release brought Siri AI, additional Apple Intelligence features and other changes across Apple’s devices.
According to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, the first development milestone allocated six weeks to feature development and experimentation, followed by two weeks for integration. He says Apple’s usual approach divides those stages evenly, with four weeks for each.
If accurate, that keeps the overall milestone at eight weeks while giving engineers 50 per cent more time for the development portion. Integration, when separate pieces of work are combined into the larger software build, would have a shorter dedicated window.
Gurman says the next milestone is scheduled to begin Monday, November 9, when Apple will start finalizing which features make it into the updates. The report does not identify a final feature lineup.
The details appear in Gurman’s latest Power On newsletter, alongside his report that Apple CEO John Ternus is pushing for more ambitious AI plans.
For now, the scheduling change is an unconfirmed account of the first milestone. It does not establish that later stages will follow the same split, that overall testing will be reduced, or that any particular new feature will reach users.
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