Apple seeds beta of iOS 7 for testing and evaluation purposes

Oct 1, 2013 16:25 GMT  ·  By

Apple today seeded an iOS 7.0.3 beta (carrying the build number 11B491) to employees and testing partners, according to people familiar with the matter.

Sources close to BGR are reporting that “Apple has seeded iOS 7.0.3 to employees and partners for final testing.”

This iOS 7.0.3 beta carries the build number 11B491, and is likely to include bug fixes for some widely reported vulnerabilities including the lock screen, Siri Home-screen access, and the Touch ID sensor on the iPhone 5s.

As an incremental update to the main iOS 7.0 software, this update isn’t expected to deliver any new features, and is said to be the predecessor of iOS 7.1, which will be released at a later date.

iOS 7.0.3 doesn’t have a solid release date yet, but we can expect the update to pop up on our iPhones in a matter of days.