Apple launched updates to the developer betas of iOS 16, iPadOS 16, macOS Ventura, and watchOS 9 this week (June 22), the place there’s been some bug fixes and refinements for the brand new options it introduced at WWDC.
Whereas Stage Supervisor in iPadOS 16 has seen some enhancements, by the use of making it simpler to resize home windows, and having the ability to conceal the dock, the Messages app is taking older software program variations into consideration when enhancing messages.
There will be two messages despatched – one being the unique, and the opposite the newly edited message.
There’s additionally the power to create backups over iCloud utilizing your mobile knowledge plan, however as different customers are awaiting the general public beta launch of iOS 16 (together with different platform releases), we suspect the wait will not be for much longer.
Evaluation: when might iOS 16 public beta arrive?
Beta releases from Apple normally arrive two-three weeks after a earlier model, whether or not that is a minor launch resembling iOS 15.6 (opens in new tab), or the tentpole releases of iOS 16.
On the time of writing, it has been two weeks since WWDC and when the primary developer betas arrived. We normally see the general public betas present up when beta 3 does. By then, there will be a bunch of suggestions given by builders who’ve been utilizing the sooner releases, and all that has been utilized to the options throughout the brand new software program.
For instance, WWDC 2021 was June 7, with the general public beta arriving three weeks later, sooner than Apple’s date of July. Whereas the iOS 14 public beta arrived on July 8, slightly below three weeks after WWDC 2020 was hosted remotely.
This is the reason we suspect the general public beta of iOS 16 and different updates will arrive across the week starting July 4. That method, they’re launched after the federal vacation break, and customers can get into how the brand new updates will profit them, albeit with warning.
Regardless, these are nonetheless early, in-development variations of what is going to be on the vast majority of iPhones by the point 2022 wraps up. So remember that you could be encounter bugs and different points in case you do determine to put in the general public betas…after they arrive.