How Apple Plans to Root Out Bugs, Revamp iPhone Software

The company is shaking up its development program to focus more on key features and push back others to the following year.

How Apple Plans to Root Out iPhone Software Bugs

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Apple's annual software upgrade this fall will offer users plenty of new features: enabling a single set of apps to work across iPhones, iPads and Macs, a Digital Health tool to show parents how much time their children have been staring at their screen and improvements to Animojis, those cartoon characters controlled by the iPhone X's facial recognition sensor.

But just as important this year will be what Apple doesn't introduce: redesigned home screens for the iPhone, iPad and CarPlay, and a revamped Photos app that can suggest which images to view.