Currently, the latest official version of the iOS system is iOS 14.7.1, and Apple has closed the verification channel for the previous version, iOS 14.7.
As there is no news of iOS 14 Beta for the time being, there have been speculations that iOS 14.7.1 may become the elderly care system of iOS 14. After all, iOS 15 will become positive next month.
It now appears that the answer seems to be no.
Brendan Shanks found iOS 14.8 in Xcode 13, and MacRumors also found iOS 14.8 in the diagnostic analysis data, forming a supporting evidence.
The existence of iOS 14.8 is unusual. After all, iOS has never been updated to the “.8” stage in history. iOS 11 stopped at iOS 11.4, iOS 12 stopped at iOS 12.5, and iOS 13 stopped at iOS 13.7.
In addition, the media generally praised Apple’s decision to continue to develop the iOS 14.8 system, which fulfilled its previous promise of “not forcing users to upgrade to iOS 15, and continuously updating and optimizing iOS 14.”
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