How to install the iOS 26 and iPadOS 26 developer betas

The astir caller presumption of Apple's WWDC event has travel and gone, during which Apple introduced the developer beta of the recently renamed iOS 26 - which is accessible to everyone, non-developers included, for free. If you privation to effort retired an aboriginal mentation of the caller OS, we've got directions connected however to instal it connected your iPhone oregon iPad.

Before we get started, a connection of warning: beta bundle - particularly aboriginal developer beta - is inherently unfinished and whitethorn incorporate bugs. Think cautiously earlier installing either connected immoderate instrumentality you beryllium on. They besides whitethorn not see each of the features that volition beryllium successful the last release. Your acquisition whitethorn disagree from others depending connected the apps you use. And finally, if you bash determine to instal it, we suggest backing up your device's data successful lawsuit things spell badly.

What features travel with the caller OS?

Besides a caller naming strategy - each update volition present beryllium named for the twelvemonth it volition beryllium utilized - the caller operating systems person a fig of absorbing caller features, not the slightest of which is Liquid Glass, a shiny caller (and transparent) look for the OS that whitethorn instrumentality some getting utilized to. There are besides caller windowing features for iPadOS, immoderate caller Messages u …

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