Apple's latest developer beta adds AI-generated Apple Music playlists, early testing for encrypted RCS messaging and a new ...

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 ...

Amid the chaos and excitement of an Apple event, one or two interesting announcements will generally fall through the cracks and go unreported. Sure enough, one WWDC25 news item affecting the AirPods ...

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 ...

Apple is set to release iOS 26 Developer Beta 2 on June 23, 2024, with the public beta following in July. This update aims to refine the features introduced in Beta 1 while addressing critical bugs ...

Apple today provided developers with iOS 26 beta 8, which means that beta testing is likely coming to an end. Apple typically only seeds eight developer betas of an iOS update before the software gets ...

Apple has taken a small step toward securing cross-platform messaging, with early RCS encryption support now appearing in the iOS 26.4 beta. Just don't expect to get that much testing done right now.

After a month of beta testing, Apple is expected to release iOS 26 public beta either on Monday or within the next few days. If the company sticks to its usual pattern, the public test version arrives ...

With the HyperOS 3 beta release around the corner, Xiaomi users may be wondering how to sign up for early access to the software. The brand allows limited users to test early builds once they are ...

Macworld After Apple released iOS 26.3 last week, we were anticipating the first beta release of iOS 26.4 with bated breath. That’s because rumors for the better part of a year have pointed to this ...

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