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Apple Reportedly Seeding iOS 7.0.3 Internally Ahead of Potential Launch Next Week

Tuesday October 1, 2013 9:35 am PDT by Eric Slivka
Apple has reportedly begun seeding iOS 7.0.3 to some of its own employees and carrier partners, with a potential launch coming as soon as next week, according to BGR.
According to our sources, Apple has seeded iOS 7.0.3 to employees and partners for final testing. We’re not sure exactly when the new software will be released to the public, but we believe it will be sometime next week. The build number of iOS 7.0.3 is 11B491.
The claimed build number appears to be somewhat at odds with Apple's usual numbering patterns over the past several years, which should see all iOS 7.0.x releases carrying 11Axxx build numbers before moving on to 11Bxxx builds for iOS 7.1.x. The company did, however, vary from this pattern in earlier iOS versions, incrementing the letter designation even for x.x.1 releases at times.

MacRumors has indeed been seeing visits from devices on Apple's networks running iOS 7.0.3, with the first visits coming on Friday, September 20 and increasing significantly last week.

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Visits to macrumors.com from iOS 7.0.3 devices running on Apple's networks

Apple just released iOS 7.0.2 to the public last Thursday, bringing several fixes for issues related to lock screen passcode bugs. iOS 7.0 was released to the public on September 18 with a special iOS 7.0.1 for Apple's new iPhone 5s and iPhone 5c models arriving that same day.

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Battlefield Fan
70 months ago
This better fix the iMessage issue
Rating: 24 Votes
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mattburley7
70 months ago
hopefully this one has actual bug fixes and improvements and not just a security fix.
Rating: 19 Votes
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troop231
70 months ago
Hope this makes the animations faster for opening folders and apps. Gets redundant and annoying fast!
Rating: 13 Votes
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litmag01
70 months ago
The graph looks like Homer Simpson laying on his side.
Rating: 12 Votes
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spaceballl
70 months ago
I'm just gonna say what everyone else is saying... I hope this fixes battery life!!!

but i do mean it... I really hope it does!
Rating: 10 Votes
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BornAgainApple
70 months ago
Please let this fix the battery drain. I can deal with the rest of the BS like Parallax and the home screen zoom.
Rating: 9 Votes
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Risco
70 months ago

So, does this finally fixed the icons? If not, no downgrades for me.


Have you got nothing better to do than troll?

In other news I expect quite a number of bug fix releases, more so than any other version of iOS.
Rating: 8 Votes
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TimeSquareDesi
70 months ago
Glad I am still on iOS 6. It's not that I'm afraid of change, I simply don't want to be a guinea pig for the early iOS 7 iterations. I will installed it when it's fully baked in a couple of months and when some of the more glaring issues have been resolved :)

an aside: i really dislike the white boarder around pictures now when you are looking through your camera roll...
Rating: 8 Votes
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BrockC
70 months ago
Hopefully this fixes the problem where my iPhone 5 is a baked potato
Rating: 6 Votes
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MacFather
70 months ago
I love sceumorphism, It Feels Like Home To Me, The Design of iOS 7 is too cold.
Rating: 6 Votes

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