iOS 26 beta 1 for iPhone is now available for developers. Apple announced the next major software update for iPhone today as part of its WWDC 2025 keynote event. iOS 26 follows iOS 18 as each Apple operating system replaces the incremental version number with a reference to the year ahead.
The update is available as an over-the-air software update in the Settings app on devices with the developer beta software option enabled.
iOS 26 is defined by a major redesign, replacing the look introduced in iOS 7 with a new design language called Liquid Glass. The software update will be available on iPhone 11 and later this fall. For now, Apple has started publicly testing iOS 26 through its beta program, starting with developers. This allows app makers to prepare their software to take advantage of the latest features and designs when iOS 26 is finalized in the fall.
As a reminder, iOS 26 beta 1 is a pre-release version of the iPhone operating system. That means that many announced features and changes will be missing, unstable, or incomplete. There is also a high likelihood that third-party apps will break in weird ways when running iOS 26 beta 1. For that reason, Apple encourages users to only run iOS 26 beta 1 on hardware dedicated to testing developer beta software.
Apple also runs a public beta program that is geared toward early adopters who want to test drive the new software and provide feedback before the software update is finalized. Those releases tend to be more stable, but the same warnings about pre-release softw
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