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Get the iOS 18 developer beta for free
Download it now for a sneak peek at upcoming iPhone features.
You don’t need to be a registered Apple developer to download the iOS 18 developer beta right now for free.
Say what?
Yes, you read that right. Apple changed the way it deploys betas. Now anyone can get access to developer betas, not just coders. It’s a great way to experience all the exciting new features coming to the iPhone.
So if you want to run buggy, unreliable and possibly device-bricking software on your main (or only) device, here’s how to do it right — including how to check if you have an up-to-date backup beforehand, just in case things go belly up.
Also in today’s newsletter:
If you don’t want to download dodgy betas, you can at least get the new Apple wallpapers.
Apple clearly put a lot of thought into its AI-powered upgrades. Here’s why you shouldn’t fear Apple Intelligence.
Clocking in at nearly two hours, yesterday’s jam-packed WWDC24 keynote was a bit of a blur. Maybe you don’t have time for that: Here it all is in just 90 seconds.
This absolute unit of an iPhone power bank packs a whopping 50,000mAh for just $40.
Remember on old mobile phones when you wanted to type the letter “c,” and you had to press the key three times to select the letter? It’s called T9 dialing, and it’s finally coming to iPhone in iOS 18.
There are some interesting details in the iOS 18 beta that Apple didn’t mention during yesterday’s keynote. See the tweets below.
— Leander Kahney, EIC.
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Tweetz o’ the day
the thing that made Apple so successful, and what Steve Jobs deeply understood, is that the masses have terrible taste and therefore must be strictly guard-railed from making their own aesthetic and design choices
— Ayush S (@ayushswrites)
3:11 AM • Jun 11, 2024
Steve Jobs and Jony Ive would've never allowed this shit
— 张张张子恒 (@Hoenheimer)
11:17 PM • Jun 10, 2024
The iPhone 15 Pro has a super neat trick up its sleeve in iOS 18. Not only can you change the brightness, but even the beam pattern!
— Snazzy Labs (@SnazzyLabs)
5:25 AM • Jun 11, 2024
Now this is an awesome new attention to detail on iOS 18.
When you press a volume button, there's an effect that makes it look as if the screen bezel is expanding.
— Alvin (@sondesix)
8:43 PM • Jun 10, 2024
The contrast between what Apple is showing and what Google and Microsoft have shown is a stark as ever. This is really important. Apple brings their point of view to the newest technologies, again.
— Steven Sinofsky (@stevesi)
6:23 PM • Jun 10, 2024
One more thing ...
We've got 25,000 people at Apple. About 10,000 of them are in the stores. And my job is to work with sort of the top 100 people, that's what I do. That doesn't mean they're all vice presidents. Some of them are just key individual contributors. So when a good idea comes, you know, part of my job is to move it around, just see what different people think, get people talking about it, argue with people about it, get ideas moving among that group of 100 people, get different people together to explore different aspects of it quietly, and, you know — just explore things.
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