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

The official iOS 26 public beta is out now for anyone to try. But Apple's seventh and latest version is reserved exclusively for developers. This latest developer beta version is supposed to be more ...

Apple today seeded the third betas of upcoming iOS 26.4 and iPadOS 26.4 updates to developers for testing purposes, with the software coming a week after Apple provided the beta to developers.

Apple on Monday seeded the first betas of its upcoming iOS 26.4 and iPadOS 26.4 updates to developers for testing.

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.

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Running the latest iOS 26 developer beta or public beta? You’re probably looking at the version of iOS 26 that will be released in September. For starters, iOS 26 ...

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