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iOS 7.0.3

Full article
Public release
Recorded milestones
1
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Public release
Oct 23, 2013

Release notes

Overview

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iOS 7.0.3 introduced iCloud Keychain and Safari password generation, restored web and Wikipedia results in Spotlight, and repaired iMessage sending and activation along with several stability, sensor, speech, accessibility, and device-supervision problems.[1]

It also refined Touch ID behavior at the lock screen and closed three documented physical-access paths involving the passcode view, emergency dialing, and the Phone app’s Contacts pane.[2][3]

Source ledger

References

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  1. About iOS 7 Updates

    Apple Support · Apple · 2013-09-18T00:00:00.000Z · iOS 7.0.3

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  2. About iOS 7 Updates

    Apple Support · Apple · 2013-09-18T00:00:00.000Z · iOS 7.0.3 — Touch ID and Lock screen

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  3. About the security content of iOS 7.0.3

    Apple Support · 2026-07-30 · Passcode Lock and Phone entries

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  4. About the security content of iOS 7.0.3

    Apple Support · 2026-07-30 · iOS 7.0.3 security content

Documented & observed

Changes in this version

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Release changes

Changed in this release

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bugFix · fixed

System, sensor, and voice reliability

documentedconfirmed

Apple addressed crashes or instability around iWork apps, corrected a calibration error in motion sensing, and fixed a fallback to lower-quality synthesized speech.

Recorded at Public

  1. [1] About iOS 7 Updates · iOS 7.0.3 — iWork, accelerometer, Siri, and VoiceOver fixes

feature · introduced

iCloud Keychain and password generation

documentedconfirmed

Users gained an Apple-managed credential store shared among approved devices plus an integrated generator for harder-to-guess website passwords.

Recorded at Public

  1. [1] About iOS 7 Updates · iOS 7.0.3 — iCloud Keychain and Password Generator

security · fixed

Lock-screen and Phone protections

documentedconfirmed

Apple prevented arbitrary dialing during a lock-screen restart, restored enforcement of incorrect-passcode delays after returning from Phone, and blocked the Phone app’s Contacts pane while locked.

Recorded at Public

  1. [1] About iOS 7 Updates · iOS 7.0.3 — Lock screen passcode fix
  2. [2] About the security content of iOS 7.0.3 · Passcode Lock — CVE-2013-5144 and CVE-2013-5162; Phone — CVE-2013-5164

bugFix · fixed

iMessage sending and activation reliability

documentedconfirmed

The maintenance work covered both account activation and message delivery paths for affected iMessage users.

Recorded at Public

  1. [1] About iOS 7 Updates · iOS 7.0.3 — iMessage fixes

enhancement · changed

Accessibility and supervised-device behavior

documentedconfirmed

Motion reduction expanded to cover animation as well as movement, VoiceOver input sensitivity was adjusted, Bold Text reached dial-pad text, and updates no longer removed supervision from affected devices.

Recorded at Public

  1. [1] About iOS 7 Updates · iOS 7.0.3 — Reduce Motion, VoiceOver, Bold Text, and supervised devices

behavior · changed

Touch ID lock-screen timing

documentedconfirmed

This presentation change kept the legacy unlock prompt from appearing immediately when a user was authenticating with Touch ID.

Recorded at Public

  1. [1] About iOS 7 Updates · iOS 7.0.3 — Touch ID lock screen

enhancement · changed

Spotlight web and reference search restored

documentedconfirmed

The update restored external web and reference lookup choices that were absent from the initial iOS 7 release.

Recorded at Public

  1. [1] About iOS 7 Updates · iOS 7.0.3 — Spotlight search

Milestones

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  1. Public release

    Public

    Full articleEditorially verified

    iOS 7.0.3 added iCloud Keychain and password generation, restored Spotlight web search, improved reliability and accessibility, and tightened lock-screen handling.

    Availability
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    Sources
    12 linked
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