Apple iPadOS

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iPadOS is a mobile operating system created by Apple for its iPad line of devices. It is a rebranded variant of iOS, and introduced in 2019 as iPadOS 13.

Release Released Active Support Security Support Latest
26 4 months and 2 weeks ago
(15 Sep 2025)
Yes Yes 26.2.1
(26 Jan 2026)
18 1 year and 4 months ago
(16 Sep 2024)
Yes Yes 18.7.4
(26 Jan 2026)
17 2 years and 4 months ago
(18 Sep 2023)
Yes Yes 17.7.10
(20 Aug 2025)
16 3 years ago
(24 Oct 2022)
Ended 2 years and 4 months ago
(18 Sep 2023)
Ended 10 months ago
(31 Mar 2025)
16.7.13
(26 Jan 2026)
15 4 years ago
(20 Sep 2021)
Ended 3 years ago
(24 Oct 2022)
Ended 10 months ago
(31 Mar 2025)
15.8.6
(26 Jan 2026)
14 5 years ago
(16 Sep 2020)
Ended 4 years ago
(20 Sep 2021)
Ended 4 years ago
(01 Oct 2021)
14.8.1
(26 Oct 2021)
13 6 years ago
(24 Sep 2019)
Ended 5 years ago
(16 Sep 2020)
Ended 5 years ago
(16 Sep 2020)
13.6
(15 Jul 2020)
12 7 years ago
(17 Sep 2018)
Ended 6 years ago
(24 Sep 2019)
Ended 6 years ago
(24 Sep 2019)
12.5.8
(26 Jan 2026)

Major versions of iPadOS are released annually.

Support information for iPad devices is available at /ipad.

A detailed overview of iPadOS versions can be found on Wikipedia.

You should be running one of the supported release numbers listed above in the rightmost column.


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