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iOS 27 Beta Available Today With These 12 New Features

Wish it would fix my HomePod. It randomly starts playing. Didn’t happen before iOS 26 but that could be a coincidence. Already reset it a few times. Nothing helps.
 
Spinarelo said:
All you mentioned are bugs. Nothing that will make your iPhone unusable. The person I responded to made it seem like so much suffering will befall those who install the beta. This is just hyperbole that is pushed every year by those who are tentative.
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Those are bugs that could cause real problems under critical circumstances. And a beta 2 doesn’t come out for 2-3 weeks after that.
The alternative is setting everything up from scratch, and most people don’t have the technical skills to do that and/or are cautious enough to create a backup first.

You’re assuming typical scenarios, I’m specifically talking about cases where these “bugs” actually matter. You give people a lot of credit but that’s not my experience here. Just less than 2 weeks ago there was a post asking about the process to revert to a prior version.

No one who doesn’t have the skills to find their way to a working phone without help should be installing a beta 1.
 
Artemiz said:
A first dev beta of a major revision will be “perfectly fine”? Couldn’t be further from the truth.
First betas break banking apps, have terrible battery life, and alarms not going off. Would you like me to continue with the list of all the bugs reported over the past few revisions?
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This is exactly, why it is called "Developer Beta". It is to be used on non productive devices to test the new OS.
There are bugs to eliminate and this happens best, if Apple does not do the tests on 3 devices "in house".
And believe me: They are listening and reacting to reports.

..I cannot confirm any of your experiences with any beta, I was testing btw.
 
Lounge vibes 05 said:
Why do you care?
Also what exactly is your suggestion?
It used to be very difficult to get the Betas pre-iOS 10 or so.
You had to have a paid Developer account and your device had to be registered with Apple…
And yet people still installed it on their primary devices, Youtubers still posted videos going through it, it really wasn’t the deterrent you think it would have been.
Personally, I say the more people the better.
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I care because of a glut of misinformation.

Many of these people simply shouldn't yet be using it - the public beta is for them

It annoys me to see ton of Youtube videos and social media posts demoing feature X/Y/Z and criticising it because it doesnt work as it's supposed to.... when it's Developer Beta 1.

I dont care less if they brick their phones or cause themselves issues - but when they present the software publicly as faulty then they just look stupid.
 
I still feel like I’m on beta with the current ios. I can’t even fathom how bad the new beta is going to be. My poor 16 pro will over heat if I just wake it up.
 
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For the first time in a long time, I’ll be skipping the betas and watching from the sidelines, at least for a little while.

Not much sense in jumping into the Dev Betas and the rollercoaster of instability when my base model 15 won’t see much change anyway.

Have fun, everyone!
 
Hopefully the ommisson of anything else about the operating system means attention to the monumental bug list is also happening. Not holding my breath on that thought.

And yes, Siri is still late and one wonders what else all of the other employees were doing in the non-Siri crowd. Buttons or icons does not seem like challenging work....

The door was left open to not have this completed this calendar year of 2026.

My wallet breathed a sigh of relief. No new shinny things......

Once 26.6 is released in July 2026, we will NOT upgrade until the same time next year as the Siri complexity will need at least the next 12 months to be worth anything. And hopefully the 27 series operating system works by then.
 
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More complex Liquid Glass. Wonder what the heck they were doing all year, but every icon and program has to be tweaked on all of the operating systems. And some of this still has to work all the way back to the iPhone 11 series of hardware which is pretty amazing in of itself.
 
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