{"id":311545,"date":"2026-03-03T21:41:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T21:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/311545\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T21:41:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T21:41:09","slug":"macos-and-ipados-26-3-1-software-releases-coming-before-new-ios-26-4-iphone-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/311545\/","title":{"rendered":"macOS and iPadOS 26.3.1 software releases coming before new iOS 26.4 iPhone update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t<img width=\"1600\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/ios-26-3-logo.jpg\" class=\"skip-lazy wp-post-image\" alt=\"\"  decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Apple confirms on its website that both iPadOS 26.3.1 and macOS 26.3.1 software releases are coming before the new iOS 26.4 iPhone update is released. This likely means that iOS 26.3.1 for iPhone is also confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>Apple\u2019s new Studio Display and Studio Display XDR require 26.3.1<\/p>\n<p>For the Mac and iPad, macOS 26.3 and iPadOS 26.3 are the latest software versions, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>However, Apple <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apple.com\/studio-display\/specs\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">says on the product page<\/a> for its new Apple Studio Display and Apple Studio Display XDR that OS versions 26.3.1 are required. Apple hasn\u2019t released either of these software updates yet.<\/p>\n<p>This confirms that Apple is planning an update to its 26.3 software before releasing the <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2026\/03\/02\/apple-releases-ios-26-4-beta-3-for-iphone-with-upcoming-features\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">upcoming 26.4 versions<\/a>. 9to5Mac previously <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2026\/02\/23\/ios-26-3-1-could-launch-soon-as-the-next-iphone-update\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reported<\/a> that iOS 26.3.1 was seen in testing.<\/p>\n<p>Apple has released one 26.3.1 software update so far, however, with<a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2026\/02\/26\/visionos-26-3-1-now-available-with-apple-tv-app-fix\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> a late Friday release of visionOS 26.3.1<\/a> that addressed a video playback issue.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/zollotech\/status\/2028843193677013025\" rel=\"nofollow\">H\/T Aaron Zollo!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/google.com\/preferences\/source?q=https:\/\/9to5mac.com\" aria-label=\"Add 9to5Mac as a preferred source on Google\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"google-preferred-source-badge-dark\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1767635228_26_google-preferred-source-badge-dark.png\" alt=\"Add 9to5Mac as a preferred source on Google\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"google-preferred-source-badge-light\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1767635229_987_google-preferred-source-badge-light.png\" alt=\"Add 9to5Mac as a preferred source on Google\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"disclaimer-affiliate\">FTC: We use income earning auto affiliate links. <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/about\/#affiliate\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">More.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/benqurl.biz\/3WZyqpL\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1033835\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1772574069_425_native-banner_750_150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"150\"\/><\/a>\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Apple confirms on its website that both iPadOS 26.3.1 and macOS 26.3.1 software releases are coming before the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":223853,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[342,111,139,69,145],"class_list":["post-311545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mobile","tag-mobile","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311545\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}