How to Install iOS 26 Public Beta 6 on Your iPhone

[archvile]

If you’re already on the beta please do update, you will be able to get off the beta when the RC comes out on the day of the iPhone event

How does this work exactly? What happens when the general release is out, assuming it is different build from RC, will I be able to install the general release and then do I have to un-enroll everything from the beta?

Edit - nevermind, I just realized that even if the General release is a different build, I would still get it even if I am unenrolled. I just want to make sure I unenroll in time so I don’t get picked up into the 26.1 beta cycle.

What’s the easiest way to unenroll everything?

 

[AusMness]

How does this work exactly? What happens when the general release is out, assuming it is different build from RC, will I be able to install the general release and then do I have to un-enroll everything from the beta?

Edit - nevermind, I just realized that even if the General release is a different build, I would still get it even if I am unenrolled. I just want to make sure I unenroll in time so I don’t get picked up into the 26.1 beta cycle.

What’s the easiest way to unenroll everything?

If you’re on Beta 8 / Public beta 5 right now, you should treat Beta 9 / Public beta 6 like any other minor update you should install at earliest convenience.
When the RC releases on the day of the iPhone event, there’s a ~95% chance that it’ll have the same build as the public release which comes out the week after. Install that, and then disable beta updates. If the public release build is the same, you won’t have to do anything. If it’s a new build, just install that.

 

[AusMness]

Your phone would go through the same strain of upgrading from 18 to 26 either way though; I would be worried if running the beta for a week would be that hard on the phone at this point?

In going from 18 to 26 beta then to 26 stable, you’re essentially forcing that process to happen twice vs normally just once if going from 18 stable to 26 stable.

 

[archvile]

If you’re on Beta 8 / Public beta 5 right now, you should treat Beta 9 / Public beta 6 like any other minor update you should install at earliest convenience.
When the RC releases on the day of the iPhone event, there’s a ~95% chance that it’ll have the same build as the public release which comes out the week after. Install that, and then disable beta updates. If the public release build is the same, you won’t have to do anything. If it’s a new build, just install that.

Do you know if there is an easy one-click “unenroll from the beta program” for all of the device classes?

I put iOS 26 on everything they offered it for, even the AirPods, so would I need to go on each device and unenroll?

I just don’t want the Beta Updates button hanging around with the on/off toggle, unless that will go away after the RC is installed.