{"id":354730,"date":"2025-12-17T20:20:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T20:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/354730\/"},"modified":"2025-12-17T20:20:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T20:20:09","slug":"ios-26-3-public-beta-now-available-heres-whats-new","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/354730\/","title":{"rendered":"iOS 26.3 public beta now available, here\u2019s what\u2019s new"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t<img width=\"1600\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/iOS-26.3-public-beta.jpg\" class=\"skip-lazy wp-post-image\" alt=\"iOS 26.3 public beta\"  decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p>iOS 26.3 is now available in public beta, arriving not long after the <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2025\/12\/15\/apple-releases-first-ios-26-3-beta-for-iphone\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">first developer beta<\/a> debuted. Here\u2019s what\u2019s new.<\/p>\n<p>iOS 26.3 adds new wallpapers and settings for notification forwarding, more<\/p>\n<p>Today\u2019s first public beta of iOS 26.3 is likely the last beta we\u2019ll get from Apple before the company takes a holiday break.<\/p>\n<p>Understandably then, the release is light on new features and changes. A larger update would no doubt introduce more bugs that users would have to live with for an extended period during the holidays, so it\u2019s pretty standard for pre-holiday betas to be light on changes.<\/p>\n<p>That said, there are three noteworthy additions in iOS 26.3 so far:<\/p>\n<p>New <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2025\/12\/16\/ios-26-3-adds-new-iphone-wallpaper-section-expands-gallery\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Weather wallpapers<\/a> inside a dedicated Weather section<\/p>\n<p>A setting for <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2025\/12\/15\/ios-26-3-beta-notification-forwarding\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">notification forwarding<\/a> (an EU feature)<\/p>\n<p>And a setting for <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2025\/12\/08\/apple-and-google-team-up-to-make-iphone-and-android-switching-easier\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">transferring to Android<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/ios-26-3-wallpapers-weather-astronomy.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1032698\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>These are the only changes we\u2019ve discovered so far. However, there may be more new features available that early testers have yet to find.<\/p>\n<p>The next iOS 26.3 beta isn\u2019t expected to arrive until early 2026. But when it does, it may contain several additional new features that haven\u2019t yet been revealed.<\/p>\n<p>Have you installed the iOS 26.3 beta? 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