You Can Download iOS 26 Developer Beta 5 on Your iPhone Right Now. Here's How

With more than a decade of experience, Nelson covers Apple and Google and writes about iPhone and Android features, privacy and security settings, and more.

The official iOS 26 public beta is out now for anyone to try, but it's not the latest version available. No, that's reserved exclusively for the developer beta, and Apple has just released the fifth version. It brings a few new design tweaks, bug fixes, smoother animations and more. It mostly seems like a polishing of the last version.

The biggest news in iOS 26 is Liquid Glass, Apple's new cohesive design language across all its devices, as well as two long anticipated phone features -- Call Screening picks up unknown numbers on your behalf, asks why callers are calling and shows a live transcript so you can ...