Apple's bug-squashing week was part of its efforts to minimize errors

Apple's week-long pause on development for its next generation of operating systems and to debug code instead was necessary to ensure iOS 18, macOS 15 and other releases have the best chance of bug-free releases, reckons a report.In late October, Apple software head Craig Federighi implemented a week-long pause on the development of its next operating systems round, including iOS 18, iPadOS 18, macOS 15, watchOS 11, and tvOS 18. The pause was used to fix bugs and improve the performance of the elements that Apple's software team has produced, and was quickly lifted with normal development resuming right after.Mark Gurman, writing for the Bloomberg 'Power On' newsletter on Sunday, points out that this isn't the first time Apple has done this sort of thing, as bugs have been a problem for the company in the past. Read more...