Historically, beta 2 has been 14 days or more for x.0 releases. For iOS 15.0, beta 2 was 20 days. I'd say the we're looking at Monday, 07/07.
Source: https://www.thinkybits.com/blog/iOS-versions/
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iOS 26 Speculation Thread
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Historically, beta 2 has been 14 days or more for x.0 releases. For iOS 15.0, beta 2 was 20 days. I'd say the we're looking at Monday, 07/07.
Source: https://www.thinkybits.com/blog/iOS-versions/
Just to keep us on our toes, I predict RC1 Monday. Followed by seven other RCs. 
Hmm no, don’t think so.
DB3 will most likely be the Public Beta 1 and we will see a release next week.
Happy to be wrong in that case but let’s see.
No. Look forward to Monday/Tuesday next week.
Just don't see this happening. I don't expect anything before Monday morning, 10am-ish PDT.
I don’t buy it, it’s not like Apple was suddenly asked to come up with a new iOS a few weeks ago. Their schedule is solid and, apart from Craig’s uptalk, there is nothing to indicate that iOS 26 is fundamentally more different than any generations before it. Liquid Glass, ok, so what? Do they need extra three months to figure out just the right level of transparency? 😋 I mean the design team might not have been equally aligned on everything, which is clearly visible from early iOS 26 betas, but they are still tweaking it.
Gruber is now riding a negative wave against Apple, saying that “something is rotten at Cupertino”, and it works for him, but I do not believe that Apple will drastically change their traditional main beta release schedule just to please a few geeks over here.
For sure it won’t be as drastic as in Grubers words but I would definitely expect some further refinements of the design and for sure further under the hood improvements over the next betas.
DB3 next week and PB1 might come a week after, just to make sure there are no show-stoppers for less technically savvy users.
Sure, but this would be the case anyway as betas progress, with betas 1-4 tweaking things quite a bit, with the rest of them going into fine-tuning.
I don’t buy it, it’s not like Apple was suddenly asked to come up with a new iOS a few weeks ago. Their schedule is solid and, apart from Craig’s uptalk, there is nothing to indicate that iOS 26 is fundamentally more different than any generations before it. Liquid Glass, ok, so what? Do they need extra three months to figure out just the right level of transparency?I mean the design team might not have been equally aligned on everything, which is clearly visible from early iOS 26 betas, but they are still tweaking it.
Gruber is now riding a negative wave against Apple, saying that “something is rotten at Cupertino”, and it works for him, but I do not believe that Apple will drastically change their traditional main beta release schedule just to please a few geeks over here.
I mean the design team might not have been equally aligned on everything, which is clearly visible from early iOS 26 betas, but they are still tweaking it.The “something” that is rotten in Cupertino is and always has been Tim Cook.
