{"id":21023,"date":"2025-07-24T19:49:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T19:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/21023\/"},"modified":"2025-07-24T19:49:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T19:49:10","slug":"apple-releases-first-ios-26-and-ipados-26-public-betas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/21023\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple Releases First iOS 26 and iPadOS 26 Public Betas"},"content":{"rendered":"

Apple is allowing members of its public beta testing program to download and install iOS 26<\/a> and iPadOS 26<\/a> starting today. You can sign up for the public betas on Apple’s beta website<\/a>. The first public beta features the same content as the fourth developer beta that came out earlier this week, though there is a new fourth beta available for developers as well. <\/p>\n

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Beta testers that have registered on Apple’s website can download the \u200ciOS 26\u200c and \u200ciPadOS 26\u200c updates by opening the Settings app, going to the General section, tapping on Software Update, and choosing the \u200ciOS 26\u200c or \u200ciPadOS 26\u200c Public Beta options.<\/p>\n

\u200ciOS 26\u200c and \u200ciPadOS 26\u200c feature Apple’s Liquid Glass design, with a visual aesthetic that focuses on transparency. Icons, menu buttons, navigation bars, and more reflect and refract light with subtle animations. There are pop-out menus in some areas, tab bars shrink down, and everything has a more rounded look.<\/p>\n

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There are new Apple Intelligence<\/a> features like Visual Intelligence<\/a> for screenshots, updated order tracking in the Wallet app, new features in Reminders, and Live Translation for the Messages, Phone, and FaceTime<\/a> apps. Image Playground<\/a> has ChatGPT style options, and Genmoji<\/a> supports mixing two or more emoji characters to make something new.<\/p>\n

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2D photos have a more 3D look with a Spatial Scene feature, and Safari has updated navigation. In the Phone app, there are new Call Screening and Hold Assist features that will save you time, while the Messages app supports customizable backgrounds and polls. Apple Music<\/a> has a DJ-like AutoMix feature, CarPlay<\/a> has an overhauled interface, there’s a new Apple Games app, and Preview has come to the iPhone<\/a> for the first time.<\/p>\n

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For more on all of the new features in the updates, we have a dedicated iOS 26 roundup<\/a> and a separate iPadOS 26 roundup<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Apple is allowing members of its public beta testing program to download and install iOS 26 and iPadOS…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17752,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[87,7083,2306,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-21023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mobile","tag-featured","tag-ios-26","tag-mobile","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21023\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}