{"id":756503,"date":"2026-06-23T19:55:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T19:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/756503\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T19:55:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T19:55:13","slug":"watchos-27-developer-beta-2-now-available","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/756503\/","title":{"rendered":"watchOS 27 developer beta 2 now available"},"content":{"rendered":"

Arriving one day after the rest of the second wave of developer betas, watchOS 27 beta 2 is finally available for most of the compatible Apple Watch<\/a> lineup. <\/p>\n

On Monday, Apple released the second round<\/a> of developer betas for iOS 27, macOS 27<\/a>, and the rest of the lineup. That is, except for watchOS 27<\/a>. <\/p>\n

That has changed, as Apple has rolled out the second developer beta of watchOS 27 on Tuesday. The reason behind the delay isn’t known. <\/p>\n

This beta is currently not available for the Apple Watch Ultra 3<\/a>. It does, however, seem to be available for the rest of the lineup. <\/p>\n

The build number is 24R5305g, up from the first beta’s 24R5289n. <\/p>\n

Beware the early betas<\/p>\n

While AppleInsider and Apple itself usually recommend that people trying out beta software should do so on secondary, spare hardware instead of their mission-critical or daily driver devices, it’s a warning that matters more this time around. <\/p>\n

That is because this is Apple’s early developer betas for an operating system that is still actively under development. Therefore, there’s a higher chance of buggy, broken, and potentially harmful elements. <\/p>\n

It’s a build intended to help developers learn about the operating system changes before its release later in 2026. It’s not intended to be used by the average user. <\/p>\n

When it comes to the WWDC<\/a> developer betas, unless you have a vested interest in using them, such as app development, don’t install the early betas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Arriving one day after the rest of the second wave of developer betas, watchOS 27 beta 2 is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":723761,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[49,48,195,61],"class_list":["post-756503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-gadgets","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-gadgets","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=756503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756503\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/723761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=756503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=756503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=756503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}