iOS 17.6.1 & iPad 17.6.1 Released with Bug Fixes

Another day, another round of system software updates, such is the life of a modern Apple device user in this particular era of the two thousand and twenty fourth summer on planet Earth, Anno Domini. As the globe rotates to register a new day, you will be excited to learn that iOS 17.6.1 and ipadOS 17.6.1 are available with bug fixes for iPhone and iPad. No new features are included, but some bugs have been fixed, and nobody likes bugs (no offense to our billions of entomologist readers).

Indeed, the release of iOS 17.6.1 & iPad 17.6.1 comes barely a week after iOS 17.6 and ipadOS 17.6 was liberated from the Software Update Industrial Complex, so you’ll get the wonderful opportunity to download and install some garden fresh, organic, free-range, packed with essential vitamins and nutrients, gluten free, dairy free, soy-free, every possible diet friendly, all-inclusive, and very equitable, System. Software. Updates! Again!

Now, I know what you’re thinking, you’re thinking, “but Jamie, I have a Mac, I have an older iPhone, I have an older iPad, I want software updates too!” And maybe you’re even getting yourself worked up, in a tizzy over the mere concept of not installing more system software updates on those devices. But don’t be disappointed if you have a Mac or older iPhone or iPad either though, because you better believe there are piping hot software updates for those devices too. Coming in with the beauty of two toots from a tuba, MacOS Sonoma 14.6.1 has arrived, alongside MacOS Ventura 13.6.9. And if you’ve got an older iPhone or iPad, and you’re jonesing for an update, the software update dealers at the good old Cupertino apple orchard are serving you up with the freshest batch of iOS 16.7.10 and iPadOS 16.7.10.

How to Update to iOS 17.6.1 & iPadOS 17.6.1

Look, backing up is annoying, but if you don’t backup you might lose your stuff if your software update goes totally haywire. It’s rare, but it does happen. So backup your device. Then settle into your most comfortable position and get updating:

1. Open the “Settings” app on your amazing iPhone or iPad
2. Go to “General” like a general store, it has lots of stuff, and then go on yonder to “Software Update”
3. Select that “Update Now” button however you want, and you’ll start downloading and updating to iOS 17.6.1 or iPadOS 17.6.1

Not only will you install software updates to your iOS or iPadOS device this way, but it will even restart to finish the installation. Yes! Who doesn’t love a good device restart? I know I do!

Now if you’re a tech wizard, and you aren’t befuddled by the concept of using IPSW files to manually install updates, you can do that too. Why the heck not? Maybe you’re on salary and bored out of your mind at work, why not get paid by your employer to install these delicious tasty morsels of iOS and iPadOS software updates using firmware files like a fabled hero would do, and you are absolutely in that category at this point in your update experience. If you’re even imagining using IPSW, then you’re practically Beowulf, no wait you’re Hercules, no that’s not even sufficient, you’re the ultimate mythical deity, you are Jupiter, you are Zeus himself, The Supreme Software Update Zeus!

iOS 17.6.1 IPSW Download Links

The Apple update CDN delivers iOS 17.6.1 IPSW for you Masters Of Firmware:

• UPDATING

iPadOS 17.6.1 IPSW Download Links

iPadOS 17.6.1 IPSW is here:

• Updating….

iOS 17.6.1 Release Notes

Release notes are everyone’s favorite reading, who needs a good book when you can be enthralled in the modern classics of software update release notes. Shakespear is jealous at the prose presented by our tech rulers:

This update provides important bug fixes and is recommended for all users.

I hope you’re as excited about these system software updates as I am!