There's less than a week to go before Apple's huge iPhone 17 event, and this is what you can expect to see in the final iOS 26 developer beta stage.

On June 9, 2025, Apple announced iOS 26. The company jumped from iOS 18 to iOS 26 as a way to unify all of its software platforms. Despite iOS 26 launching in 2025, Apple is using 2026 as the number because it’ll launch for everyone in September.

Apple today provided developers with the ninth betas of iOS 26 and iPadOS 26 for testing purposes, with the updates coming a week after Apple

The developer betas continue as the OS updates prepare to launch, with new ninth builds of iOS 26, iPadOS 26, macOS 26 Tahoe, watchOS 26, tvOS 26, and visionOS 26 now available.

A little after 6 pm ET on Wednesday, the system started blinking red for iOS developer Clay Jones. Like many devs, Jones uses a Google product called Crashlytics to keep tabs on when his app stops working. Out of nowhere, it registered tens of thousands of ...

Unless you're an app developer, you'll probably want to wait for the iOS 17 public beta in July. 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.

In an explosive report published today, developer security firm Snyk claims it found malicious code inside a popular iOS SDK used by more than 1,200 iOS applications, all collectively downloaded more than 300 million times per month. According to Snyk ...