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iOS 7.0.3 Public

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

Date
Oct 23, 2013
Availability
available
Revision
No

Release notes

What changed

Original editorial synthesis. Linked references appear with the claims they support and in the source ledger.

The release’s main new capability was credential management: approved devices could synchronize account names, passwords, and payment-card details through iCloud Keychain, while Safari could suggest stronger unique passwords.[1]

A wider maintenance pass restored Spotlight web sources, repaired iMessage activation and sending, improved motion and VoiceOver behavior, preserved supervised-device status, and corrected three lock-screen or Phone-state weaknesses documented by Apple.[2][3]

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References

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  1. About iOS 7 Updates

    Apple Support · Apple · 2013-09-18T00:00:00.000Z · iOS 7.0.3 — iCloud Keychain and Password Generator

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  2. About iOS 7 Updates

    Apple Support · Apple · 2013-09-18T00:00:00.000Z · iOS 7.0.3 — Spotlight through supervised devices

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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 iOS 7 Updates

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

  5. About iOS 7 Updates

    Apple Support · Apple · 2013-09-18T00:00:00.000Z · iOS 7.0.3 — iWork, accelerometer, Siri, and VoiceOver fixes

  6. About iOS 7 Updates

    Apple Support · Apple · 2013-09-18T00:00:00.000Z · iOS 7.0.3 — Lock screen passcode fix

  7. About iOS 7 Updates

    Apple Support · Apple · 2013-09-18T00:00:00.000Z · iOS 7.0.3 — Reduce Motion, VoiceOver, Bold Text, and supervised devices

  8. About iOS 7 Updates

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

  9. About iOS 7 Updates

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

  10. About the security content of iOS 7.0.3

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

  11. About iOS 7 Updates

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

  12. About the security content of iOS 7.0.3

    Apple Support · 2026-07-30 · Passcode Lock — CVE-2013-5144 and CVE-2013-5162; Phone — CVE-2013-5164

Release changes

Changed in this release

Features, fixes, removals, and regressions first observed in this release record.

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.

  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.

  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.

  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.

  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.

  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.

  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.

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