iOS 26 beta is available to download on your iPhone now. Here's how to get it

Apple this week unveiled some big changes to its iPhone operating system when it announced iOS 26 at WWDC 2025. Instead of launching iOS 19 consecutively to the current iOS 18, Apple is rebranding its OS versions to match the year when users will use them the most. In this case, iOS 26 will officially launch this fall, though most updates will occur in 2026.

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The iOS 26 general release will be in a few months, but users can already download a developer beta. If you'd like to wait for the public beta, you'll be able to install it as soon as next month. Before you download a beta version of an operating system, you should have some housekeeping ...