What is iOS? - Explained

iOS, one of the operating systems which has been developed by Apple Inc and which has been used widely as the second largely used mobile operating system or OS in the world as of 2018 December. (Android does have larger market share than iOS).

What is iOS?

iOS is an operating system which uses to manage as the bridging layer of the hardware and the software which ever the way that the use requires. iOS is a product of Apple Inc for the products of Apple Inc's. iOS is developed for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch by Apple Inc.

iOS was the very first operating system which was embedded into a touch guided mobile phone which was released to the general market by a manufacture and the world was amused with that.

Versions of iOS?

The first release of iOS was released back in 9th of January 2007 with the first ever iPhone keynote speech. From then there were several releases which releases out by Apple Inc.

iOS Type	Version	Released Date	Main Article
iPhone OS 1	1.0	29th June 2007	Click to Read from here
	1.0.1	31st July 2007	Click to Read from here
	1.0.2	21st August 2007	Click to Read from here
	1.1	14th September 2007	Click to Read from here
	1.1.1	27th September 2007	Click to Read from here
	1.1.2	12th November 2007	Click to Read from here
	1.1.3	15th January 2008	Click to Read from here
	1.1.4	26th February 2008	Click to Read from here
	1.1.5	15th July 2008	Click to Read from here
iPhone OS 2	2.0	11th July 2008	Click to Read from here
	2.0.1	4th August 2008	Click to Read from here
	2.0.2	18th August 2008	Click to Read from here
	2.1	9th September 2008	Click to Read from here
	2.1.1	12th September 2008	Click to Read from here
	2.2	21st November 2008	Click to Read from here
	2.2.1	27th January 2009	Click to Read from here
iPhone OS 3	3.0	17th June 2009	Click to Read from here
	3.0.1	31st July 2009	Click to Read from here
	3.1/ 3.1.1	9th September 2009	Click to Read from here
	3.1.2	8th October 2009	Click to Read from here
	3.1.3	2nd February 2010	Click to Read from here
	3.2	3rd April 2010	Click to Read from here
	3.2.1	15th June 2010	Click to Read from here
	3.2.2	11th August 2010	Click to Read from here
iOS 4	4.0	21st June 2010	Click to Read from here
	4.0.1	15th July 2010	Click to Read from here
	4.0.2	11th August 2010	Click to Read from here
	4.1	8th September 2010	Click to Read from here
	4.2.1	22nd November 2010	Click to Read from here
	4.2.5	11th January 2011	Click to Read from here
	4.2.6	31st January 2011	Click to Read from here
	4.2.7	14th April 2011	Click to Read from here
	4.2.8	4th May 2011	Click to Read from here
	4.2.9	15th July 2011	Click to Read from here
	4.2.10	25th July 2011	Click to Read from here
	4.3	9th March 2011	Click to Read from here
	4.3.1	25th March 2011	Click to Read from here
	4.3.2	14th April 2011	Click to Read from here
	4.3.3	4th April 2011	Click to Read from here
	4.3.4	15th July 2011	Click to Read from here
	4.3.5	25th July 2011	Click to Read from here
iOS 5	5.0	12th October 2011	Click to Read from here
	5.0.1	10th November 2011	Click to Read from here
		12th December 2011	Click to Read from here
	5.1	7th March 2012	Click to Read from here
	5.1.1	7th May 2012	Click to Read from here
		25th May 2012	Click to Read from here
iOS 6	6.0	19th September 2012	Click to Read from here
	6.0.1	1st November 2012	Click to Read from here
	6.0.2	18th December 2012	Click to Read from here
	6.1	28th January 2013	Click to Read from here
	6.1.1	6th Februry 2013	Click to Read from here
	6.1.2	19th February 2013	Click to Read from here
	6.1.3	19th March 2013	Click to Read from here
	6.1.4	2nd May 2013	Click to Read from here
	6.1.5	14th November 2013	Click to Read from here
	6.1.6	21st February 2014	Click to Read from here
iOS 7	7.0	18th September 2013	Click to Read from here
	7.0.1	19th September 2013	Click to Read from here
	7.0.2	26th September 2013	Click to Read from here
	7.0.3	22nd October 2013	Click to Read from here
	7.0.4	14th November 2013	Click to Read from here
	7.0.5	29th January 2014	Click to Read from here
	7.0.6	21st February 2014	Click to Read from here
	7.1	10th March 2014	Click to Read from here
	7.1.1	22nd April 2014	Click to Read from here
	7.1.2	30th June 2014	Click to Read from here
iOS 8	8.0	17th September 2014	Click to Read from here
	8.0.1	24th September 2014	Click to Read from here
	8.0.2	25th September 2014	Click to Read from here
	8.1	20th October 2014	Click to Read from here
	8.1.1	17th November 2014	Click to Read from here
	8.1.2	9th December 2014	Click to Read from here
	8.1.3	27th January 2015	Click to Read from here
	8.2	9th March 2015	Click to Read from here
	8.3	8th April 2015	Click to Read from here
	8.4	30th June 2015	Click to Read from here
	8.4.1	14th August 2015	Click to Read from here
iOS 9	9.0	16th September 2015	Click to Read from here
	9.0.1	23rd September 2015	Click to Read from here
		24th September 2015	Click to Read from here
	9.0.2	30th September 2015	Click to Read from here
	9.1	21st October 2015	Click to Read from here
	9.2	8th December 2015	Click to Read from here
	9.2.1	19th January 2016	Click to Read from here
		18th February 2016	Click to Read from here
	9.3	21st March 2016	Click to Read from here
		25th March 2016	Click to Read from here
		28th March 2016	Click to Read from here
	9.3.1	31st March 2016	Click to Read from here
	9.3.2	16th March 2016	Click to Read from here
		2nd June 2016	Click to Read from here
	9.3.3	18th June 2016	Click to Read from here
	9.3.4	4th August 2016	Click to Read from here
	9.3.5	25th August 2016	Click to Read from here
iOS 10	10.0	13th September 2016	Click to Read from here
	10.0.2	23rd September 2016	Click to Read from here
	10.0.3	17th October 2016	Click to Read from here
	10.1	24th October 2016	Click to Read from here
	10.1.1	31st October 2016	Click to Read from here
		9th November 2016	Click to Read from here
	10.2	12th December 2016	Click to Read from here
	10.2.1	23rd January 2017	Click to Read from here
	10.3	27th March 2017	Click to Read from here
	10.3.1	3rd April 2017	Click to Read from here
	10.3.2	15th May 2017	Click to Read from here
	10.3.3	19th July 2017	Click to Read from here
iOS 11	11.0	19th September 2017	Click to Read from here
	11.0.1	26th September 2017	Click to Read from here
		3rd November 2017	Click to Read from here
	11.0.2	3rd October 2017	Click to Read from here
	11.0.3	11th October 2017	Click to Read from here
	11.1	31st October 2017	Click to Read from here
	11.1.1	9th November 2017	Click to Read from here
	11.1.2	16th November 2017	Click to Read from here
	11.2	2nd December 2017	Click to Read from here
	11.2.1	13th December 2017	Click to Read from here
	11.2.2	8th January 2018	Click to Read from here
	11.2.5	23rd January 2018	Click to Read from here
	11.2.6	19th February 2018	Click to Read from here
	11.3	29th March 2018	Click to Read from here
	11.3.1	24th April 2018	Click to Read from here
	11.4	29th May 2018	Click to Read from here
	11.4.1	9th July 2018	Click to Read from here
iOS 12	12.1	30th October 2018	Click to Read from here
		7th November 2018	Click to Read from here
	12.1.1	5th December 2018	Click to Read from here
	12.1.2	17th December 2018	Click to Read from here
	12.1.3 Beta	19th December 2018	Click to Read from here

Apple iOS is user friendly and secured to compared with any other mobile operating systems which are available in the market for the moment. iOS coordinates well with the hardware and the third party applications which can be installed in the device to create a rich user experience for the users.