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Heinzja

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Still very happy with my iPad Pro 10.5" (on 17-7-8) and saw that beta 26 was offered in Updates. As mentioned, I am very happy as it is, and the iPad Pro works brilliantly, but what will happened afterwards, when the ipados26 is out... Does the beta expire? Did anyone try this before

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Strange that iPadOS 26 is offered as Beta for this device. Thought offering iPadOS 18 was a misstake and this sounds even weirder
 
Apparently if you have beta updates enabled it just shows everyone the latest version for some reason, regardless of device compatibility. Ignore that, it is not compatible and it will never be.
 
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I can select the iOS 26 dev beta on my old xS and the Tahoe Dev Beta on my 2018 MacBook Pro, but I'm not offered the actual downloads.
 
Still very happy with my iPad Pro 10.5" (on 17-7-8) and saw that beta 26 was offered in Updates. As mentioned, I am very happy as it is, and the iPad Pro works brilliantly, but what will happened afterwards, when the ipados26 is out... Does the beta expire? Did anyone try this before

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It's normal but, you cannot install it. Despite having many iPads I still use my 10.5, it's the oldest pro that I don't consider slow. I installed Stage Manager on it (it's a very simple hack) so it has even more now. Hope it will last me another couple of years.
 
It's normal but, you cannot install it. Despite having many iPads I still use my 10.5, it's the oldest pro that I don't consider slow. I installed Stage Manager on it (it's a very simple hack) so it has even more now. Hope it will last me another couple of years.

Question, how did you enable Stage Manager? Does it require jailbreak?
 
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