iOS is a mobile operating system developed by Apple that was originally released in 2007 for the iPhone, iPod Touch, and Apple TV. It is derived from OS X and shares the Darwin foundation. iOS apps are mainly designed using Objective C and Swift programming languages. iOS has four abstraction layers: Cocoa Touch for graphical user interfaces, a Media layer for multimedia, Core Services for fundamental system interfaces, and Core OS for low-level system functions like memory, threads, and networking.