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

The iOS 26 developer beta is now available to download, but it's not ready to be your daily driver. Before you install it, you should know what you're getting yourself into. Blake has over a decade of ...

Update February 23: The second beta of iOS 26.4 is out now for developers. It expands the testing environment for RCS encryption to include iPhone-to-Android messages.

Apple today seeded the first betas of upcoming iOS 26.4 and iPadOS 26.4 updates to developers for testing purposes, with the software coming less than a week after Apple released iOS 26.3 and iPadOS ...

The official iOS 26 public beta is out now for anyone to try but it's not the latest version available. No, that's reserved exclusively for the developer beta, and Apple has just released the fifth ...