{"id":48642,"date":"2025-07-24T15:38:51","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T19:38:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=48642"},"modified":"2025-07-25T11:56:57","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T15:56:57","slug":"appleos-26-public-betas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/24\/appleos-26-public-betas\/","title":{"rendered":"appleOS 26 Public Betas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2025\/07\/24\/apple-seeds-ios-26-public-beta\/\">Juli Clover<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2025\/07\/24\/apple-seeds-ios-26-public-beta\/\"><p>Apple is allowing members of its public beta testing program to download and install iOS 26 and iPadOS 26 starting today. You can sign up for the public betas on <a href=\"https:\/\/beta.apple.com\/\">Apple&rsquo;s beta website<\/a>. The first public beta features the same content as the fourth developer beta that came out earlier this week, though there is a new fourth beta available for developers as well.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/22\/macos-tahoe-26-developer-beta-4\/\">macOS Tahoe 26 Developer Beta 4<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/22\/ios-26-developer-beta-4\/\">iOS 26 Developer Beta 4<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/08\/ipados-26-developer-beta-3\/\">iPadOS 26 Developer Beta 3<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/30\/assorted-notes-on-liquid-glass\/\">Assorted Notes on Liquid Glass<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/16\/macos-15-sequoia-public-beta\/\">macOS 15 Sequoia Public Beta<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p id=\"appleos-26-public-betas-update-2025-07-25\">Update (<a href=\"#appleos-26-public-betas-update-2025-07-25\">2025-07-25<\/a>): See also: <a href=\"https:\/\/tidbits.com\/2025\/07\/24\/apple-opens-public-betas-for-macos-26-tahoe-ios-26-ipados-26-watchos-26-tvos-26-and-homepod-software-26\/\">TidBITS<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2025\/07\/public-betas-of-ios-26-macos-26-ipados-26-and-other-oses-now-available\/\">ArsTechnica<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/apple.slashdot.org\/story\/25\/07\/24\/205229\/apple-releases-public-betas-of-its-new-software-updates-with-liquid-glass\">Slashdot<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/pxlnv.com\/linklog\/public-beta-26\/\">Nick Heer<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@stroughtonsmith\/114909502704623627\">Steve Troughton-Smith<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@stroughtonsmith\/114909502704623627\">\n<p>As a user, the Public Beta builds are mostly fine. Very livable.<\/p>\n<p>As a developer, these builds are a train wreck, and beta 5 can&rsquo;t come soon enough<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/25\/ipados-26-developer-beta-4\/\">iPadOS 26 Developer Beta 4<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Juli Clover: Apple is allowing members of its public beta testing program to download and install iOS 26 and iPadOS 26 starting today. You can sign up for the public betas on Apple&rsquo;s beta website. The first public beta features the same content as the fourth developer beta that came out earlier this week, though [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2025-07-24T19:38:53Z","apple_news_api_id":"e7edeb46-0d3a-4d9f-94a5-59adf016d2cf","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2025-07-25T15:56:59Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAg==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/A5-3rRg06TZ-UpVmt8BbSzw","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[31,2741,2312,1814,2763,2313,30,2308,2742,1212,2314],"class_list":["post-48642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-ios","tag-ios-26","tag-ios-beta","tag-ipados","tag-ipados-26","tag-ipados-beta","tag-mac","tag-macos-beta","tag-macos-tahoe-26","tag-watchos","tag-watchos-beta"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48642"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48658,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48642\/revisions\/48658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}