It’s definitely worth checking out some of the threads about their sound performance - some people absolutely hated them and returned them immediately, while others love the sound and think they’re MORE balanced than the APP2. It’s wild!
Yes. Installing a new iOS beta will often start the indexing process all over again. Whenever major changes are made to search infrastructures, databases, or AI models (like Apple Intelligence), the system requires a complete rebuild of the index to work properly.
Perhaps I’m misremembering, but haven’t there been cycles in the past where beta 2 was out 3 weeks after beta 1, then betas 3-5 or so are every two weeks, and any after that are every week?
Yep. It's also possible that indexing efficiency and speed will be refined over the beta cycle as well
I asked ios 27 Siri for Beta 2 date & siri says on 23
That only happened once with iOS 10. Every other major release saw a beta roughly after 2 weeks of the original release (anywhere between 14 and 17 days after beta 1). iOS 18 and 26 took 14 days, so going by the previous schedule, beta 2 could release today.
Yea let’s see
My guess is that, if we do see that message appear again, it will quickly disappear for those like you and me.
Yes. It might take less time though. They are also apparently doing a big index as part of 26.6, so when people upgrade it will be smoother than the beta cycle. All that said, I would recommend keeping your development device lean so it indexes quickly and don't sync it to iCloud. Do not have every text, email, note, and picture on a test device. Keep those for your personal devices. I never even saw the index message on my 17PM.
The estimated schedule for iOS 27 beta releases I listed are based on the release dates of iOS 26 beta releases.
Beta 2 is available now.
