If you’re brave—or have a secondary device lying around—you can help test Apple’s exciting new operating software before release in the fall.
Update 07/16/21: iOS 15 public Beta 3 has been released with several new tweaks. Every year, Apple releases major updates for its iPhone and iPad operating systems in the fall. For months before that, it releases beta test versions for developers and the public. They’re often incomplete and buggy, but it can be exciting to try out everything before it gets pushed out to a billion devices in the fall. We highly recommend you do not run this beta on a critical device. Yes, you can downgrade back to iOS or iPadOS 14, but it’s not a fast and easy process, and you may lose some of the information that you haven’t backed up or saved in the cloud. We also recommend you backup your iPhone or iPad before you get started. If you want to know all about the new features coming to your iPhone and iPad this fall, check out our iOS 15 and iPadOS 15 guides. Besides, beta testing is a good way to help find bugs and problems and results in a more stable release this fall. Just use the Feedback app to submit bug reports. If you’re interested in running the iOS 15 or iPadOS 15 beta, here’s how you get it. [ For more tips, tricks, news, features, and updates, check out our iOS 15 superguide.] Apple is fine-tuning the Safari redesign with a new search design and a secondary way to reload a web page (by long-pressing the URL bar). It’s still fundamentally the same, though. There’s a splash screen on the App Store to highlight new features like in-app events and the App Store widget. The Focus settings are tweaked and updated. There are new Shortcuts options to play Background Sounds. The Music widget has been slightly redesigned. The Reset option in Settings > General now says Transfer or Reset iPhone and can guide you through transferring to a new iPhone even if you don’t have enough iCloud storage.
