Apple Studio Display Runs Full Version of iOS 15.4

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The Apple Studio Display runs a full version of iOS 15.4, Daring Fireball‘s John Gruber has highlighted.



In System Information, under “Graphics/Displays,” the Studio Display’s software can be seen, showing that it runs “Version 15.4 (Build 19E241).” This is the exact same build number as iOS 15.4 and iPadOS 15.4, indicating that the Studio Display runs the full version of iOS.

The Studio Display contains an A13 Bionic chip, the same chip from the iPhone 11 lineup, 2020 iPhone SE, ninth-generation iPad, to support its 12-megapixel Ultra Wide front-facing camera with Center Stage and six-speaker sound system with Spatial Audio. While the presence of the A13 chip indicated that the display likely ran a variant of existing Apple software, in much the same way that the HomePod and HomePod mini run a version of tvOS, the device’s exact software was unknown until now.

The Studio Display’s firmware in System Information (via Daring Fireball).

Yesterday, the first reviews of the Studio Display were released, with a common complaint among reviewers being that the built-in webcam’s image quality ranges anywhere from an “old BlackBerry” to downright “awful” in their hands-on testing. In his detailed review of the Studio Display, Gruber said that the camera is “crushingly disappointing” and “astonishingly poor,” with the image being “terrible” and Center Stage being “glitchy.”

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