They're wrong. Next week. 😉This according to 9 to 5 Mac…
iOS 18 public beta release date - 9to5Mac
This guide covers when to expect the iOS 18 public beta release date in July following the June developer beta launch.9to5mac.com
- If Apple’s trend holds, that puts the iOS 18 public beta release during the week of July 15
Isn‘t Public Beta usually lagging a week behind the Developer ones early on?
The last two years yes they did seed beta 3 seeds and do the PB seed a week later after providing an update seed at the same time to devs.
There are different terms you agree to on the developer license you get, which essentially tells you to not cry when your phone smokes and dies (and recommended to only install on developer devices).
There really is hardly any differences deployment issues between dev and PB tester. It not like you can swear that PB seeds are much safer then dev seeds. The only thing that is factual is that as a beta cycle progresses there will be times for both devs and PB testers that issues can crop up. To use 10.16 Catalina as an example Apple failed to notice an increased chance of a kernel panic that was caused by a couple of conditions. But the days of kernel crashes and memory leaks are in a distance past with my several years of experience. You still can encounter a application or a app to unexpectedly quit, but then its works after you restart it. I wouldn't say there really is anything different between installing a dev beta and a PB beta when it comes to taking precautions like backing up before using anything beta. As long as you keep a way to fall back to another version of the OS, you won't have anything ruining your usages of beta testing. Also make sure you don't use software that seems to always present usage issues/failures because it's poorly supported. 😉
From what we’ve seen so far, I think it will! 👍🏻
It should, Apple is not after flashing stuff that plagiarizes other people content, instead just to makes our lives better.
That doesn’t mean it will actually work properly, though. Computing history is littered with the debris of highly touted features that didn’t live up to their billing. The most recent example of this is Windows CoPilot Recall, which never even got rolled out after a much heralded introduction.
I noticed the second time watching through that part of the keynote that they said it would be available in beta this summer. It seems like it will still officially be in beta when it’s released in fall as well, which creates confusion about when it will be available in beta.
On that note what Mark Gurman said in his newsletter today is putting a dampening spell on most readers I'm sure.
So it starts testing in January thru March as a guess.
Its would be available as a preview this summer, then would be beta after iOS 18 gets released is what I read.
Did they say Siri specifically or Apple Intelligence? I can see them releasing other AI features this summer and others such as Siri waiting until next year.
I don’t think this is news. I think it’s been pretty clear since WWDC that the Siri features would be the last to arrive. Gurman just needed something to say in his last newsletter before his vacation.
I think we’ll see most of the other features during the summer betas (pre-iOS 18 release). Perhaps some will slip to the 18.1 or (more likely) the 18.2 betas. Then the Siri features in 18.3 with betas beginning in January.
I think it was about Apple Intelligence. I don’t know about Siri. 👍🏻
Apple Mail stuff will come in 18.1 or 18.2. We may see the other stuff (mainly the writing and priority notifications stuff) in beta 3. I would not bet against it.
