Apple's latest developer beta adds AI-generated Apple Music playlists, early testing for encrypted RCS messaging and a new setting to tone down iOS 26's brighter visual effects.

Apple has released an iOS 26.4 beta that fixes keyboard bugs, but some issues remain.

Apple today seeded the release candidate version of upcoming iOS 26.4 and iPadOS 26.4 updates to developers and public beta testers, with the software coming a week after Apple provided the fourth ...

Just a week after Apple seeded iOS 26.4 beta 2, the company today has released beta 3 of iOS 26.4 and iPadOS 26.4 to developers of Apple Developer Program portal.

iOS 26.4 beta 3: Apple has released a revised version of iOS 26.4 beta 3 for developers, just three days after the initial ...

The final version of iOS 26 will drop next month. But you can try an early version of the software on an iPhone right now. As Managing Editor, I lead CNET's mobile team, covering news and reviews on ...

With iOS 26 public beta now available, Apple enters the second half of the iOS 26 test phase with developer beta 5. While the company was able to greatly improve the general stability in previous ...

OS 26.3.1(a) arrives as a background security update with a WebKit navigation API input-validation fix, with no new features expected.

The official iOS 26 public beta is out now for anyone to try but it's not the latest version available. No, that's reserved exclusively for the developer beta, and Apple has just released the fifth ...