Apple Launches Public Betas of iOS 9 and OS X El Capitan

[MacRumors]

Just a day after releasing a new set of developer builds for iOS 9 and OS X El Capitan, Apple today launched its public beta program for both upcoming operating systems. Apple had announced at WWDC last month that it would launch the public betas in July, and a new support document published yesterday regarding changes to two-factor authentication hinted a launch was imminent.

iOS and Mac users interested in trying out the public betas can sign up on Apple's beta software program page.

We'll be looking for any changes specific to the public beta versions, but they are almost certainly essentially identical to the developer seeds released yesterday.

iOS 9 is the first major version of Apple's mobile operating system to see a public beta release, as the company did not initiate the program for iOS until iOS 8.3 earlier this year. OS X users may already be familiar with the public beta process, as a similar program was in place for OS X Yosemite last year.

Article Link: Apple Launches Public Betas of iOS 9 and OS X El Capitan

 

[bushido]

same as beta3? that is so not ready for prime ... battery wise alone

(speaking of iOS)

 

[ChinaRye]

Very tempted to do this, but fear I may regret it once I do. I think I will sit on the sidelines for a bit.

 

[CooKieMoNs7eR]

Just make it fast and stable thats it.

 

[curtoise]

WatchESPN app is working on the latest beta? last time I've tried in beta 1 or 2 was not working at all, just crashing immediately after opening.

 

[sniffies]

Is the battery life better in public betas?

I'll stick to dev betas since they always come out a day or two earlier.

Oh and btw, performance-wise, beta 3 is horrendous on both iOS and Mac OS, much worse than beta 2.

 

[BillyBobBongo]

same as beta3? that is so not ready for prime ... battery wise alone

Indeed, I was unable to charge my iPhone 4s past 81%. I'm back on 8.4 now, as I was only curious about getting my content in to the News App. There was no way I was willing to use iOS 9 on a daily basis.

 

[smithrh]

Kudos to MacRumors for not posting this until the site was actually live.

I had read about the public beta being available on a few other sites and I wasted about an hour hitting "refresh"...

 

[rctlr]

Registered but no invitation to Download.

 

[Richdmoore]

I am not sure if I should do the beta or not. I am hopeful that it fixes a Bluetooth issue with my bad elf GPS pro+.....

 

[AnTaR3s]

Anyone else getting an empty page when clicking on the public beta download button?

 

[Tyler23]

Is anyone running the iOS 9 beta on their phone and using an Apple Watch on stock watchOS 1.01? If so, is everything working fine?

 

[TMRJIJ]

Back up on iTunes/Time Machine first, guys. Remember it's a 'Beta.'

 

[penajmz]

Wonder what the differences are and if battery is better on this compared to beta 3..

 

[bushido]

Is anyone running the iOS 9 beta on their phone and using an Apple Watch on stock watchOS 1.01? If so, is everything working fine?

works great on mine, no issue

 

[jadAce]

PSA: IT IS A BETA. THINGS WILL NOT WORK. THAT IS ALRIGHT.

 

[smithrh]

Don't forget the option to install on a new partition (for El Cap)...

Probably the safest way to go.

 

[zOne31]

Will be trying El Capitan but not sure about iOS 9.

 

[Skika]

I only get yosemite and ios8.4 betas... Anyone else?

 

[WordMasterRice]

PSA: IT IS A BETA. THINGS WILL NOT WORK. THAT IS ALRIGHT.

PSA IT's OK TO TALK ABOUT BETA ISSUES AND LOOK FOR WORKAROUNDS.

 

[BreuerEditor]

Installing on external hard drive now....

 

[LordVic]

Can anyone give some update on what sort of resource footprint El-Capitan uses, especially in compared to Yosemite?

whats the memory pressure on first boot? CPU utilization at idle? doing simple tasks? and the like?

 

[Littleodie914]

Exercise caution. Java apps have some issues. (At least they do on DP 3.)

Eclipse, for example, will not successfully launch. This is okay. It's a beta. Don't install this on your personal/work machine unless you know what you're doing.

https://forums.developer.apple.com/message/22377

 

[powaking]

Unable to make an archive backup of my iTunes backup in itunes as instructed on their site (Win7). Anyone have any ideas?

 

[anshuvorty]

Is it possible to download the public beta ipsw and then install it via iTunes? My wifi OTA is going to take horrendously long, but via wired it will be faster.