2022 tablet operating system by Apple Inc.
Operating system
iPadOS 16 iPadOS 16 home screen
Developer Apple Inc. Written in C , C++ , Objective-C , Swift , assembly language OS family Unix-like , based on Darwin (BSD ), iOS Source model Closed with open-source componentsGeneral availability October 24, 2022; 20 months ago (2022-10-24 ) Latest release 16.7.8 (20H343)[1] (May 13, 2024; 44 days ago (2024-05-13 ) ) [±] Marketing target Tablet computers Available in 40 languages[2] [3] [4] [5] Update method OTA , software update through iTunes , Apple Configurator , or FinderPackage manager App Store Platforms Kernel typeHybrid (XNU )Default user interface Cocoa Touch (multi-touch , GUI )License Proprietary software with open-source componentsPreceded by iPadOS 15 Succeeded by iPadOS 17 Official website iPadOS 16 at the Wayback Machine (archived November 22, 2022)Tagline Incredibly capable. Unmistakably iPad. Receiving security updates for iPads that do not support iPadOS 17. Widespread third-party app support. Drops support for all A8 and A8X chips, including the iPad Air 2, and the iPad Mini 4. iOS 16
iPadOS 16 is the fourth major release of the iPadOS operating system developed by Apple for its iPad line of tablet computers . The successor to iPadOS 15 , it was announced at the company's Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) on June 6, 2022, along with iOS 16 , macOS Ventura , watchOS 9 , and tvOS 16 .[6] [7] It received numerous new features, improving multitasking and many other aspects of the operating system, most notably on iPads with Apple's M1 SoC and later.
The public beta of iPadOS 16 was released on July 11, 2022. The public version of iPadOS 16 was released on October 24, 2022[8] as iPadOS 16.1.[9]
iPadOS 16 is the final version of iPadOS that supports the first-generation iPad Pro and iPads without Apple Pencil compatibility, especially the fifth-generation iPad .
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