{"id":900439,"date":"2026-09-21T19:46:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T19:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/900439\/"},"modified":"2026-09-21T19:46:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T19:46:09","slug":"second-developer-betas-of-ios-27-2-macos-27-2-are-out-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/900439\/","title":{"rendered":"Second developer betas of iOS 27.2, macOS 27.2 are out now"},"content":{"rendered":"

Apple is now on the second round of its developer betas for iOS 27.2<\/a>, iPadOS 27.2, tvOS 27.2, visionOS 27.2, watchOS 27.2, and macOS 27.2. <\/p>\n

The second post-milestone release developer beta is here. After the first developer builds of iOS 27.2, iPadOS 27.2, macOS 27.2 Golden Gate, watchOS 27.2, visionOS 27.,2 and tvOS 27.2 landed on September 16<\/a>, Apple is now on the second round of the generation. <\/p>\n

Normally, you would expect that the first updates will be for the 27.1 versions, as a point-1 release usually follows the milestone ones. However, since the iOS 27.1 build is made with iPhone Duo elements in mind, that version is being skipped for the non-foldable iPhone models, hence 27.2. <\/p>\n

The second 27.2 builds are: <\/p>\n

iOS 27.2 beta 2 is 24B5089g, replacing24B5084k
\niPadOS 27.2 beta 2 is 24B5089g, replacing 24B5084k
\nmacOS 27.2 beta 2 is 26B5091g, replacing 26B5086k
\ntvOS 27.2 beta 2 is 24K5093g, replacing 24K5088l
\nwatchOS 27.2 beta 2 is 24S5091f, replacing 24S5086l
\nvisionOS 27.2 beta 2 is 24N5093f, replacing 24N5088l

\nHomePod Software 27.2 beta 2 is 24K5093g<\/p>\n

There’s also a pair of macOS release candidates for earlier generations: <\/p>\n

macOS 26.7.1 RC 3 is 25G313macOS 15.8.1 RC 2 is 24H212<\/p>\n

The first round<\/a> introduced a few changes to iOS 27.2, including a redesigned Health app, which works alongside the Apple Watch Ultra 4 and Apple Watch Series 12. <\/p>\n

FaceTime gained dual capture support, Siri AI added localization for multiple languages, and Apple TV profiles from tvOS 26.2 came over to the iPhone. <\/p>\n

At your own risk<\/p>\n

AppleInsider regularly warns readers that people trying out beta software should do so on secondary, spare hardware instead of their mission-critical or daily driver devices. This is for a good reason. <\/p>\n

There’s a higher chance of buggy, broken, and potentially harmful elements being distributed in early betas. Even though the first releases are out, it doesn’t lessen the risk of issues in betas for later-released updates. <\/p>\n

Members of the public should seek out the public betas<\/a> instead of the developer versions. They are much safer alternatives if you want to try out prerelease software. <\/p>\n

Find any changes in the new builds? Reach out to us on X at @AppleInsider<\/a> or @Andrew_OSU<\/a>, or send Andrew an email at [email\u00a0protected]<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Apple is now on the second round of its developer betas for iOS 27.2, iPadOS 27.2, tvOS 27.2,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":900440,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[64,63,203,105],"class_list":["post-900439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mobile","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-mobile","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=900439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900439\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/900440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=900439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=900439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=900439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}