If you want to give the upcoming iPhone and iPad software a try, you can sign up for the public beta now.
Apple announced iOS 14 and iPadOS 14 during WWDC in late June, and now, a couple of weeks after the first beta was made available to developers, the iPhone maker is opening the public betas.
Installing the public beta on your iPhone or iPad will give you access to all of the new features — like home screen widgets on the iPhone, the iPad’s new search tool, and an improved Messages app — before the official release this fall.
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You can sign up for the beta, which will walk you through downloading and installing the beta, by visiting Apple’s Beta Software Program. The site currently states the iOS 14 beta is coming soon, but it should be live momentarily.
Just be forewarned, you’ll be using early builds of iOS 14 and iPadOS 14, and while Apple does a good job at removing bugs and issues with every beta update, each release has the potential of introducing issues. For example, an app that works just fine on the first public beta may be broken by a change Apple makes in the second beta, only to be fixed in the next release.
In other words, create a backup of your device before installing the beta.
