Final October we informed you that Apple was engaged on a system that will enable it to put in software program updates on a number of iPhone items even when they’re powered off, sitting of their retail bins inside an Apple Retailer. The expertise would enable these buying a brand new iPhone from Apple’s brick-and-mortar storefront to have that gadget come out of the field operating the newest model of iOS with out having Apple Retailer staff spend time manually updating every unit.
Final yr, the expertise would have been helpful since iOS 17.0.1 was launched earlier than the iPhone 15 line was obtainable for buy. To replace iPhone items inside never-opened retail bins, a stack of those iPhone bins is positioned on a proprietary Apple-developed pad and every unit within the stack is wirelessly turned on, receives the iOS replace, downloads and installs the replace, and shuts down. The packaging isn’t disturbed and the boxed iPhone items will run the newest model of iOS when booted up for the primary time after being bought. Apple calls this technique “Presto.”
By this coming summer season, Apple will be capable to set up iOS updates on iPhone items inside never-opened bins
In line with Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman in his latest Power On newsletter, “Presto” employs MagSafe wi-fi charging and different wi-fi applied sciences to assist it full its process. Gurman says that the pad resembles “a metallic cubby for sneakers.” Whereas “Presto” was examined at sure Apple Shops across the finish of final yr, Gurman says that Apple will now roll out the expertise at Apple Shops throughout the U.S. in April. The plan is to have “Presto” obtainable in all American Apple Shops this summer season.
We nonetheless do not know whether or not Apple will hold this expertise for itself or whether or not it can enable its service companions (equivalent to Verizon, T-Cellular, and AT&T) to replace their iPhone stock utilizing “Presto.” We are also at the hours of darkness about when Apple plans on permitting abroad Apple Shops to make use of the in-box updating system.
