{"id":709433,"date":"2026-06-17T11:39:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T11:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/709433\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T11:39:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T11:39:10","slug":"apple-releases-second-developer-betas-of-ios-26-6-and-ipados-26-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/709433\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple releases second developer betas of iOS 26.6 and iPadOS 26.6"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apple is working on iOS 27, but this doesn\u2019t mean that work on the current iOS 26 version has stopped. In fact, iOS 26.5 came out a month ago, which was followed by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gsmarena.com\/apple_releases_ios_2651_and_macos_2651-news-73080.php\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">26.5.1<\/a> to fix a charging issue. Now there is iOS 26.6 on the way too.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, Apple is seeding the second developer beta for iOS 26.6 (build number 23G5043d), iPadOS (23G5043d), watchOS (23U5040d) and macOS (25G5043d). The <a href=\"https:\/\/developer.apple.com\/documentation\/ios-ipados-release-notes\/ios-ipados-26_6-release-notes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">release notes<\/a> don\u2019t mention any new features, so this appears to be just a round of polish.<\/p>\n<p>iOS 26.6 developer beta 1 included a security upgrade for Apple Maps. Also, it added a warning in the Contacts app for users that have somehow managed to hit the maximum number of blocked listings \u2013 the max is 20,000, which sounds like it should have been enough, but apparently not.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"inline-image\" width=\"728\" height=\"512\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1781696350_618_gsmarena_001.jpg\" alt=\"Apple releases second developer betas of iOS 26.6 and iPadOS 26.6\"\/><\/p>\n<p>If your iPhone runs iOS 26, it can run iOS 27 \u2013 no devices lost compatibility. Of course, the older devices might not have full support for all the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gsmarena.com\/siri_ai_is_official_for_ios_27_ipados_27_macos_27_watchos_27_and_visionos_27-news-73181.php\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Siri AI<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gsmarena.com\/apple_unveils_nextgeneration_apple_intelligence_here_are_the_features-news-73183.php\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Apple Intelligence<\/a> features. In case you missed it, here\u2019s the list of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gsmarena.com\/heres_whats_new_in_ios_27_and_ipados_27-news-73182.php\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">all new features in iOS 27<\/a>.&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;\n<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, iOS 26.6 (and the related iPad, Mac and Apple Watch OSes) will come out before iOS 27 is ready for prime time. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gsmarena.com\/apple_seeds_first_ios_265_beta_to_developers-news-72174.php\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">first iOS 26.5 beta<\/a> came out on March 31 and the stable release was on May 11, so expect stable iOS 26.6 in a month or two.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-source\"><a href=\"https:\/\/developer.apple.com\/news\/releases\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Source<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/appleinsider.com\/articles\/26\/06\/15\/second-developer-betas-for-ios-266-macos-266-have-arrived\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Via<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Apple is working on iOS 27, but this doesn\u2019t mean that work on the current iOS 26 version&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":709434,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[165,74],"class_list":["post-709433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mobile","tag-mobile","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=709433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709433\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/709434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=709433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=709433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=709433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}