Boston, September 18
An operating system (OS) is system software that manages computer hardware (parts), software resources (software programs), and provides common services for computer devices.
Think of it like this – your computer is a machine that only understands the binary code. But you don’t know how to type in binary language (this language that the machine understands is also called machine language). So, someone writes a program that allows normal human beings to interact with their machines. This basic software is called Operating System because it allows us to operate our devices.
Apple released the latest version of its iOS operating system, iOS 14, on September 16.
iOS 14 release was announced at the company’s Worldwide Developers Conference on June 22, 2020, as the successor(successor is someone who comes after) to iOS 13.
It is one of Apple’s biggest iOS updates to date, introducing Home screen design changes, major new features, updates for existing apps, Siri improvements, and many other tweaks that streamline the iOS interface.
With each new iOS upgrade comes a slew of new security improvements called “patches” that will help protect Apple devices from hackers, malware, and memory corruption flaws.
For the first time, this upgrade addresses some major changes to software without any changes to the hardware and without releasing a new device. Most of the times when software is upgraded the hardware components also need to be changed. But Apple released its software update independent of hardware so all the devices that run on iOS 13 can be upgraded to iOS 14.