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iOS 7.1 Public

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iOS 7.1 introduced CarPlay, expanded Siri, media, calendar, and accessibility controls, improved performance and reliability, and delivered extensive security repairs.

Date
Mar 10, 2014
Availability
available
Revision
No

Release notes

What changed

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

CarPlay was the defining new platform feature, projecting selected Phone, Music, Maps, Messages, and compatible audio-app experiences into supported vehicles with Siri and the vehicle’s own controls.[1][2]

The same release refined Siri listening and voices, iTunes Radio, Calendar, visual accessibility, Camera, Keychain, FaceTime notifications, Touch ID, and iPhone 4 performance, while Apple’s security bulletin records fixes across local, network, content, and browser attack surfaces.[3][4]

Source ledger

References

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  1. Apple Rolls Out CarPlay Giving Drivers a Smarter, Safer & More Fun Way to Use iPhone in the Car

    Apple Newsroom · 2014-03-03T00:00:00Z · CarPlay functions, controls, compatibility, and availability

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  2. About iOS 7 Updates

    Apple Support · Apple · 2013-09-18T00:00:00.000Z · iOS 7.1 — CarPlay

    Back to text ↑
  3. About iOS 7 Updates

    Apple Support · Apple · 2013-09-18T00:00:00.000Z · iOS 7.1 — Siri through continued user interface refinements

    Back to text ↑
  4. About the security content of iOS 7.1

    Apple Support · 2026-07-30 · iOS 7.1 security content

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  5. Apple Rolls Out CarPlay Giving Drivers a Smarter, Safer & More Fun Way to Use iPhone in the Car

    Apple Newsroom · 2014-03-03T00:00:00Z · CarPlay availability as an iOS 7 update

  6. Apple Rolls Out CarPlay Giving Drivers a Smarter, Safer & More Fun Way to Use iPhone in the Car

    Apple Newsroom · 2014-03-03T00:00:00Z · CarPlay capabilities, controls, compatible iPhones, and availability

  7. About the security content of iOS 7.1

    Apple Support · 2026-07-30 · FaceTime — CVE-2014-1274; IOKit HID Event — CVE-2014-1276; Settings - Accounts — CVE-2014-2019; Springboard — CVE-2014-1285

  8. About the security content of iOS 7.1

    Apple Support · 2026-07-30 · ImageIO, Kernel, and Office Viewer entries

  9. Apple security updates (2014)

    Apple Support · Apple · 2023-08-10T00:00:00.000Z · iOS 7.1 — 10 Mar 2014

  10. About iOS 7 Updates

    Apple Support · Apple · 2013-09-18T00:00:00.000Z · iOS 7.1 — Accessibility

  11. About iOS 7 Updates

    Apple Support · Apple · 2013-09-18T00:00:00.000Z · iOS 7.1 — Calendar

  12. About iOS 7 Updates

    Apple Support · Apple · 2013-09-18T00:00:00.000Z · iOS 7.1 — Camera, iCloud Keychain, and FaceTime

  13. About iOS 7 Updates

    Apple Support · Apple · 2013-09-18T00:00:00.000Z · iOS 7.1 — iTunes Radio

  14. About iOS 7 Updates

    Apple Support · Apple · 2013-09-18T00:00:00.000Z · iOS 7.1 — Siri

  15. About iOS 7 Updates

    Apple Support · Apple · 2013-09-18T00:00:00.000Z · iOS 7.1 — Touch ID through continued user interface refinements

  16. About iOS 7 Updates

    Apple Support · Apple · 2013-09-18T00:00:00.000Z · iOS 7.1

  17. About the security content of iOS 7.1

    Apple Support · 2026-07-30 · iTunes Store — CVE-2013-3948; Safari — CVE-2013-5227

Release changes

Changed in this release

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

enhancement · changed

Siri listening control and voices

documentedconfirmed

Holding the Home button let a user determine exactly when Siri listened, and additional male and female voices arrived for Mandarin Chinese, UK English, Australian English, and Japanese.

  1. [1] About iOS 7 Updates · iOS 7.1 — Siri

enhancement · changed

Accessibility display and motion controls

documentedconfirmed

Bold styling extended to the keyboard, calculator, and icons; motion reduction reached Weather, Messages, and multitasking; and additional visual contrast controls became available.

  1. [1] About iOS 7 Updates · iOS 7.1 — Accessibility

enhancement · changed

iTunes Radio discovery and purchasing

documentedconfirmed

A search field supported station creation from an artist or song, albums could be bought directly from the playback view, and users could subscribe to iTunes Match for ad-free listening.

  1. [1] About iOS 7 Updates · iOS 7.1 — iTunes Radio

security · fixed

Device-boundary protections

documentedconfirmed

Apple blocked a failed lock-screen FaceTime call from exposing contacts, restricted IOKit monitoring of actions in other apps, required improved Find My iPhone state handling, and hardened activation error handling.

  1. [1] About the security content of iOS 7.1 · FaceTime — CVE-2014-1274; IOKit HID Event — CVE-2014-1276; Settings - Accounts — CVE-2014-2019; Springboard — CVE-2014-1285

enhancement · changed

Camera, Keychain, and FaceTime refinements

documentedconfirmed

A new Camera setting could enable HDR automatically on iPhone 5s, more countries and regions received iCloud Keychain, and answering a FaceTime call elsewhere cleared the corresponding notification.

  1. [1] About iOS 7 Updates · iOS 7.1 — Camera, iCloud Keychain, and FaceTime

enhancement · changed

Calendar month events and holidays

documentedconfirmed

The month presentation gained visible events, while holiday calendars were added automatically for many countries and regions.

  1. [1] About iOS 7 Updates · iOS 7.1 — Calendar

security · fixed

Content parsing and kernel security

documentedconfirmed

Representative repairs added validation or safer memory handling for JPEG2000, TIFF, JPEG, and Word content and fixed an out-of-bounds kernel memory access path.

  1. [1] About the security content of iOS 7.1 · ImageIO, Kernel, and Office Viewer entries

bugFix · fixed

Touch ID, performance, and reliability improvements

documentedconfirmed

Apple improved Touch ID matching and iPhone 4 performance, repaired an occasional home-screen crash and Mail unread counts above 10,000, and continued general interface refinements.

  1. [1] About iOS 7 Updates · iOS 7.1 — Touch ID through continued user interface refinements

security · fixed

Store and Safari transport protections

documentedconfirmed

Enterprise App Download added SSL use and redirect prompts to reduce spoofed delivery, while Safari tracked frame origins more carefully before autofilling site credentials.

  1. [1] About the security content of iOS 7.1 · iTunes Store — CVE-2013-3948; Safari — CVE-2013-5227