Rumor: iOS 9 mainly contains optimizations and no major new features

Apple will focus iOS 9 mainly on improvements in the stability and speed of the mobile operating system, while there are not many important new features. That is what the generally well-established 9to5 Mac claims, based on anonymous sources.

With that, iOS 9 would have the same function as OS X Snow Leopard in 2009, which Apple also recommended as an update that would mainly improve the stability and speed of the system, notes 9to5 Mac. The site has shown in the past that it often has good sources of developments within the Cupertino company. In recent years, Apple has added many new features to iOS, including Apple Pay, Healthkit, and Homekit in iOS 8 and the new, flatter interface and Touch ID in iOS 7.

In addition to the focus on optimizations, Apple also wants to address the size of updates with iOS 9. Users with devices that have a storage capacity of 8GB or 16GB often have to remove apps or data if they want to install an update.

Apple has released a new version of its mobile operating system every year since 2007. In recent years, Apple presented the new iOS for iPhones and iPads at its WWDC developer conference, which invariably takes place in June.

Meanwhile, the company has offered the first version of iOS 8.3 to developers. The fact that developers can already run 8.3 is striking, because Apple has not even released version 8.2 for consumers yet.