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Some statistics for you on beta 4:

  • Average length: 14.71 days
  • Median length: 14 days
  • Shortest length: 8 days
  • Longest length: 37 days
  • # of times beta 5 was released the following week after beta 4 release: 3 times out of 14 releases (21.4% of the time)
    • In other words, 78.6% of the time, beta 4 lasted 12 days or longer.
Additionally, those three times that beta 5 released in the week after beta 4, beta 4 lasted 8 days each time. Since beta 4 first came out last Wednesday, if history repeats itself, it would be released this Thursday at the earliest with the public beta coming out the next day on Friday. A Friday release seems unlikely, so either Apple could release both developer and public beta tomorrow, or Apple will go with the more probable solution: releasing it next week.

Source: Thinky Bits + math
You are the MVP, I won't even check anymore today with this information
 
Something going on?


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I’m guessing even if they had planned on a week to week after the last, this one was so bad, they’re now dealing with the swarm of bugs currently attacking the beta picnic.
I think the same event occurred in iOS 15. When it was released to the public it was full with bugs.
 
I’m guessing even if they had planned on a week to week after the last, this one was so bad, they’re now dealing with the swarm of bugs currently attacking the beta picnic.

For the fifty gazillionth time: it does not work that way. Unless there is a truly horrific bug, they stick to their schedule. For all we know, these bugs were all known or even planned for.
 
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