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Title: iOS 12: Release date rumors, feature speculation, and more!
Post by: HCK on May 29, 2018, 04:05:21 pm
iOS 12: Release date rumors, feature speculation, and more!

iOS 12 is expected to be previewed at WWDC in June 2018. Here's everything you need to know!

The next new operating system for iPhone and iPad will be iOS 12. That means, right after iOS 11 was released, Apple's product marketing and software engineering teams began working to figure out what iOS 12 needed to be. Since Apple doesn't pre-announced new features before they go into beta, all we have to look forward to between now and WWDC 2018 in June are rumors and speculation.

Here they are.

May 28, 2018: Apple may unlock the iPhone's NFC chip, making it available for more than Apple Pay.

Apple launched NFC compatible devices in 2014 with the iPhone 6, and since then, the NFC chip has been restricted to only be used for Apple Pay transactions. A big reason for iOS and watchOS have had its NFC chip on lockdown is to protect users from unwanted device access, thus breaching privacy and security; however, that may soon be changing.

Apple Insider believes that Apple could reveal the ...

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