iOS (officialy iPhone OS) is a mobile operating system that was both created and developed by Apple Inc. exclusively for its own hardware. It is the operating system that powers lots of the company’s mobile devices, including both the iPhone and iPod Touch; the term conjointly enclosed the versions running on iPads till the name iPadOS was introduced with version thirteen in 2019.
It’s the world’s second-most wide put in mobile software system, next behind googles android. it’s the idea for 3 different operational systems created by Apple: iPadOS, tvOS, and watchOS. iOS is proprietary operating system or software, though few elements of it are absolutely open source underneath the Apple Public source License and different licenses.
Basic info about iSO
Basic info are given in the table below :
| Developer | Apple Inc. |
| Written in | C, C++, Objective-C, Swift, assembly language |
| OS family | Unix-like, based on Darwin (BSD), iOS |
| Working state | Current |
| Source model | Closed, with open-source components |
| Initial release | June 29, 2007; 13 years ago |
| Latest release | 14.5.1 (18E212) (May 3, 2021; 13 days ago) [±] |
| Latest preview | 14.6 beta 3 (18F5065a) (May 10, 2021; 6 days ago) [±] |
| Marketing target | Smartphones, tablet computers, portable media players |
| Available in | 40 languages |
| Update procss | OTA (since iOS 5), the Finder (from macOS Catalina onwards) or the iTunes (Windows and macOS pre-Catalina) |
| Platforms | ARMv8-A (iPhone OS 7 and later) ARMv7-A (iPhone OS 3 – iOS 10.3.4) ARMv6 (iPhone OS 1 – iOS 4.2.1) |
| Kernel type | Hybrid (XNU) |
| Default user interface | Cocoa Touch (multi-touch, GUI) |
| License | Proprietary software except for open-source components |
| Official website | www.apple.com/ios/ |
