{"id":491202,"date":"2026-06-23T08:03:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T08:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/491202\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T08:03:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T08:03:10","slug":"second-developer-betas-of-ios-27-macos-27-are-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/491202\/","title":{"rendered":"Second developer betas of iOS 27, macOS 27 are out"},"content":{"rendered":"

The second round of developer betas for iOS 27<\/a>, macOS 27, and the rest of Apple’s upcoming operating systems has been issued. You may still want to hold off on installing them. <\/p>\n

The march to the fall milestone operating system release is well underway, with Apple continuing to test out its work on them all. After the expected post-WWDC<\/a> first beta round, Apple’s now moved to its second. <\/p>\n

The first developer builds of iOS 27, iPadOS 27<\/a>, macOS 27<\/a>, tvOS 27<\/a>, visionOS 27<\/a>, and watchOS 27<\/a> were made available on June 8<\/a>. <\/p>\n

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

iOS 27 beta 2 is 24A5370h, replacing 24A5355q
\niPadOS 27 beta 2 is 24A5370h, replacing 24A5355q
\nmacOS 27 beta 2 is 26A5368g, replacing 26A5353q
\ntvOS 27 beta 2 is 24J5305f, replacing 24J5289o
\nvisionOS 27 beta 2 is 24M5306i, replacing 24M5291pHomePod Software 27 beta 2 is 24J5305f<\/p>\n

At the time of publication, the second watchOS 27 developer beta has yet to surface. This may still change in the short term. <\/p>\n

The main changes to the collection include tweaks to Liquid Glass, the long-awaited overhaul of Siri<\/a>, child-protective features, and many other smaller changes. This time around, it seems to be more of a shoring-up release, focusing on performance and making everything more robust instead of major features, aside from Siri AI. <\/p>\n

At your own risk<\/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, and 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 the final public release later in 2026. It’s not intended to be used everyday by consumers. <\/p>\n

When it comes to the WWDC developer betas, unless you have a vested interest in using them, such as app development, don’t install the early betas. <\/p>\n

Members of the public keen to try out iOS 27 on their iPhone<\/a> should wait until the inevitable public beta. At the very least, wait for a few build cycles to pass so that the big showstopper issues are fixed. <\/p>\n

We have experienced when things have gone wrong, and heard countless stories from others when the same happened to them. <\/p>\n

Don’t be like us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The second round of developer betas for iOS 27, macOS 27, and the rest of Apple’s upcoming operating…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":491203,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[342,111,139,69,145],"class_list":["post-491202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mobile","tag-mobile","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=491202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491202\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/491203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}