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Keep in mind, this is being done in a seed release to developers. I don't have any inside information, but I'd expect it to be a while (i.e. iOS 11 and/or macOS
by gdavisson 10y ago
Keep in mind, this is being done in a seed release to developers. I don't have any inside information, but I'd expect it to be a while (i.e. iOS 11 and/or macOS 10.13 at the earliest) before APFS becomes the default format. My guess is that they're trying to get some broader experience with APFS from a group that's relatively small (compared to the deployed base) and relatively used to dealing with and reporting bugs. In short: it's a beta test.
- soneil 10y agoI would actually be very surprised if this doesn't land in 10.3 on release. It'd be very, very unusual for them to diverge (especially since converting apfs to hfs live doesn't work). On the other hand, iOS seems like the perfect place to go live first - all filesystem access is by apple, or via blessed APIs - it should present the fewest edge-cases.
- tinus_hn 10y agoAlso Apple has experience with backup-and-restore upgrades on iOS, which are impractical on the Mac. If I remember correctly iOS 7 also required a full restore.