I was setting up my wife’s new iphone yesterday and afterwards I noticed that on Software Update she has the 2 options available - Customer and Developer beta. She has never had a beta or a configuration profile on her devices nor associated with her Apple ID. After seeing this I went to her iPad Pro and saw the same on it. Both are now on 16.4.1. Those options are on my devices but I received an invitation to the AppleSeed beta program ages ago and have used the configuration profiles until 16.4/.1. I was assuming that only those who had done so or used the public betas would have these options on their devices. Apparently I was mistaken. Do all devices on 16.4.1 or later now have beta options under Software Update?
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No, participating in the public beta will get you that one, simply being part of the appleseed will allow installs from their server. The second choice of a developer beta is a bug that comes and goes. If you install the current iOS 16.5 beta 3 it should install from either, after it reboots you likely see you have a OFF and public beta showing only.
My wife has never participated in any beta, public or otherwise, and she has the options - Customer and Developer. Which is what I have, never been part of the public version. On Appleseed we were told to use the Customer option which is what I do now when ready to install the latest beta which I have with 16.5. Both Customer and Developer options are still available On my devices. But I don’t understand why those options appear on my wife’s devices unless they’re now on everyone’s.No, participating in the public beta will get you that one, simply being part of the appleseed will allow installs from their server. The second choice of a developer beta is a bug that comes and goes. If you install the current iOS 16.5 beta 3 it should install from either, after it reboots you likely see you have a OFF and public beta showing only.
These are linked to Apple ID now rather then a Developer/Customer/Public Beta profile like before. Did you use your own Apple ID anytime with her devices?
Never. That’s what I believed, that it was tied to the Apple ID you’re logged in with on the device. But apparently not. It should not appear on hers since she is logged in with an ID that’s never been associated with a beta.
So everything is separate. But perhaps it's how you bought the devices using a common credit care associated with a common address and both names maybe? BTW this isn't a problem really (bug), but just an example of this system oddity of switching to Apple ID that creates this. I was also thinking it might have to do with your ISP/LAN that it somehow this bug thinks is across both sets of devices (yours/hers).
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I’ve just warned her to leave that setting alone. I am curious what would happen if she did check one on and then ran an update check again.