{"id":22889,"date":"2011-05-07T18:05:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-07T17:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/?p=22889"},"modified":"2026-09-02T00:41:38","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T23:41:38","slug":"over-the-air-ota-updates-for-ios-devices-concept","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/07\/over-the-air-ota-updates-for-ios-devices-concept\/","title":{"rendered":"Over-The-Air (OTA) Updates For iOS Devices \u2013 [CONCEPT]"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Following rumors surfacing earlier this week, which suggested that Apple may already be in talks with U.S network Verizon over the offering of&nbsp;over-the-air updates to iOS devices in a future version of its software using either&nbsp;<strong>Wi-Fi<\/strong>&nbsp;or&nbsp;<strong>3G<\/strong>, iFans member&nbsp;<em>Appman<\/em>&nbsp;today offers up a would-be  concept of how he believes this system might work in the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"377\" height=\"311\" src=\"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/img_0714.jpeg\" class=\"wp-image-22888\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/img_0714.jpeg 377w, https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/img_0714-300x247.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 377px) 100vw, 377px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Based around Apple\u2019s existing push notifications system,&nbsp;<em>Appman suggests<\/em> that users would be alerted to new updates just as they are now with breaking news, game updates and other information. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I was wondering earlier today, if Apple did implement the over-the-air updates, what they would look like. So, I made these mockups in Photoshop on what how I think Apple may use their OTA updates along with a new lockscreen notification mockup.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The user would then initiate download of the software OTA, with a progress bar indicating exactly how much of the software was left to download to the device.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following rumors surfacing earlier this week, which suggested that Apple may already be in talks with U.S network Verizon over the offering of&nbsp;over-the-air updates to iOS devices in a future version of its software using either&nbsp;Wi-Fi&nbsp;or&nbsp;3G, iFans member&nbsp;Appman&nbsp;today offers up a would-be concept of how he believes this system might work in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2786,174,3525,16],"tags":[1006,3375,2703,3527,3526,2551],"class_list":["post-22889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple-blog","category-blog","category-concept","category-iphone","tag-concepts","tag-ios","tag-lockscreen","tag-mockups","tag-over-the-air","tag-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22889"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22890,"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22889\/revisions\/22890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}