Unlikely, as historically Beta 4 for major releases was still going for two weeks, so my guess is PB2 (based on DB4v2) and 17.6 this coming week, then DB5 next week (5 August) and weekly betas from then on:
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Unlikely, as historically Beta 4 for major releases was still going for two weeks, so my guess is PB2 (based on DB4v2) and 17.6 this coming week, then DB5 next week (5 August) and weekly betas from then on:
How stable it will be…..?
I would love to test Apple Intelligence on my daily driver 15 PM, but I am afraid that it won’t run well…
As well it might not available in Europe…?
If not and it is available, but only in US-English, it’s no problem for me…
Or do you think it will be the same build like dev beta 4 but plus Apple Intelligence?
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They could treat this as two different testing cycles to accelerate AI testing while allowing the usual advancement of Sept public releases of iOS/IPadOS 18.0/MacOS 15.0, and dev's can optionally get hands on experience with AI at a earlier point of time, with 18.1 seeds. If 17.6 is wrapping up very soon, with a lot of us using 18.0, certainly a 18.0 and 18.1 at the same time is not unlikely.
yeah that’s what i’m thinking
developer beta 18.0 becomes 18.1 more or less; public stays on 18.0…or maybe 18.1 supersedes everything, but i doubt that happening
Could be 18.1 is for iPhone 15s only?
Next week seems a little early, with 17.6 RC, 18 beta 4 for PB testers. With the expected 18.0 beta 5 expected the following week.
That seems like it would be a mess. I mean it makes sense if they are the only ones that can get AI but I feel like being in beta you want as many eyes on it as possible, so only releasing it for the 15's seems strange (especially since there is a lot outside of AI new in IOS 18 still needed to be fixed).
For AI it have to be all three seeds (iOS/IPadOS/MacOS). Why limit the amount of devices severely with AI because of just a iOS seed?
That’s what I am thinking too - for iPhone 15 Pro and M1+ iPads only, the rest will stay on iOS 18.0.
Apple will probably release it for all three seeds, but it will be restricted by the hardware specs.
You mention iOS 18 but you are talking about iOS/IPadOS 18. Then there's the problem of not catering to all the AS Macs out there. Any AS Mac qualifies.
You mention iOS 18 but you are talking about iOS/IPadOS 18. Then there's the problem of not catering to all the AS Macs out there. Any AS Mac qualifies.
They will get it to the Macs too, the ones that will be able to support it, that is.
DB4 isn’t very stable thou still plenty of bugs
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The article says end of July 18.0 will end with betas.