To beta or not to beta? If you're a user of Apple devices, tis the season of temptation as the company has made available unfinished versions of its next generation of operating systems for all of its ...

Yesterday Apple debuted the first developer betas for iPadOS 26.3, tvOS 26.3, and more. Now today, the first public betas are rolling out.

If you've been itching to poke around Apple's next big iPhone update, today's your day. Apple just opened the first iOS 26 public beta (July 23) to anyone in its free Beta Software Program, letting ...

iOS 26 has the potential to be a pretty cool upgrade, complete with a Liquid Glass design, live translations, and updates to CarPlay and Messages, which we heard about in early June at WWDC 2025. It ...

As promised, Apple has just released the first public beta versions for the next-generation versions of iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and most of its other operating systems. The headlining feature of all the ...

Apple has made available the sixth public beta of iOS 26, bringing a more stable version of the software to a wider audience following lengthy testing by developers. Keep reading to learn how to ...

Yesterday Apple shipped developer beta 3 for its various 26.2 software updates, and despite skipping a public beta for most platforms last week, public beta 2 has now arrived for watchOS 26.2 and more ...

Want to live dangerously, get a glimpse of the future, and help Apple find bugs? You can now install public betas of nearly all Apple’s v.26 operating systems ...

Apple's tvOS 26 beta removing HomeKit branding and adding "Apple Home" shouldn't be a surprise, since Apple has been on that road for two years. HomeKit is now over ten years old, having been ...

Apple today released public new beta firmware that's designed for the AirPods Pro 2, AirPods Pro 3, and AirPods 4. The firmware is now available for Apple's public beta testing group, and it has a ...

The first public beta versions of iOS 26, iPadOS 26, macOS Tahoe, and watchOS 26 are now available. And if you’re a keen enthusiast of all things Apple—which is likely, given the name of the website ...

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