Installing iOS 18 Public Beta: A Step-by-Step Guide

To install the latest version of iOS on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch, you can follow these steps to upgrade to the public beta. First, make sure your device is compatible with the new operating system.

How to Download and Install iOS 18 Public Beta

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The process of downloading and installing iOS 18 public beta is relatively straightforward. To start, go to the Apple ID website or the App Store on your device and sign in with your Apple ID credentials. Once you're logged in, navigate to the "Beta Software" section and select "iOS 18 Beta". If you don't see the option to download iOS 18 public beta, you may need to check for updates manually.

Once you've selected iOS 18 public beta, tap on "Download and Install" to begin the process. Your device will then download the software update, which can take a few minutes depending on your internet connection speed. While the update is downloading, you can prepare your device by making sure it's fully charged and that you have enough free storage space.

After the update has finished downloading, tap on "Install Now" to begin the installation process. Your device will then restart several times during the installation process, so be patient and make sure it's plugged into a power source. Once the installation is complete, your device will boot up with the new iOS 18 public beta operating system.

Features of iOS 18 Public Beta

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iOS 18 public beta brings several new features to the table, including dark mode, RCS support, and improved Siri capabilities. Dark mode allows you to switch between a light or dark theme for your device's interface, which can be customized to match your wallpaper. This feature is available in both iOS 18 developer beta and public beta versions.

RCS (Rich Communication Services) support enables you to send and receive text messages with Android users more easily. You'll notice that the messages app has been redesigned to include features like read receipts, typing indicators, and higher-quality images. These features are exclusive to the public beta version of iOS 18.

Siri 2.0 is also available in the public beta version of iOS 18, although it won't be fully integrated until later this year. With Siri 2.0, you'll have access to more advanced AI-powered features like personalized suggestions and improved natural language understanding.

Other New Features

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In addition to dark mode, RCS support, and Siri 2.0, iOS 18 public beta also includes several other new features. These include the ability to change by word the kind of effect that you have if you only want a certain word to be animated when sending it to someone via iMessage.

The New Messages App

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If you're looking forward to trying out the new messages app in iOS 18 public beta, now's your chance. The redesigned interface is sleek and modern, with features like read receipts, typing indicators, and higher-quality images. You'll also notice that the messages app has been redesigned to include more customization options.

To switch from developer beta to public beta or vice versa, simply go back to the "Beta Software" section and select the desired option. If you've already installed iOS 18 developer beta on your device and don't want to experience any potential catastrophic bugs, it's recommended that you switch to the public beta.

Benefits of Switching from Public Beta to Developer Beta

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If you're not comfortable with the risks associated with the public beta version of iOS 18, you can stick with the developer beta. However, if you've already installed iOS 18 developer beta on your device and haven't experienced any issues, there's no need to switch.

Switching from public beta to developer beta is a straightforward process that involves going back to the "Beta Software" section and selecting the developer beta option. If you want to switch from public beta to developer beta or vice versa, simply navigate to the "Beta Software" section and make your selection.

Conclusion

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Installing iOS 18 public beta is a simple process that requires minimal effort on your part. By following these steps, you can upgrade to the latest version of iOS and experience all its new features firsthand. Whether you're looking for dark mode, RCS support, or improved Siri capabilities, iOS 18 public beta has something to offer.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enwhat's up guys my name is Brandon and Apple has just released the first public beta for iOS 18 and in this video I'm going to show you how to install the beta on your iPhone or iPad for free and what to expect from it and if you currently have the developer beta installed on your device I would consider switching over to the public beta and I'll explain why and how to do that later in this video now as far as compatibility goes if your device can run iOS 17 it can also run iOS 18 so that includes the iPhone SE the iPhone 10r 10s anything that can run iOS 17 can also run iOS 18 and the public beta now as far as iPad OS 18 it's compatible with most iPads that could run iPad OS 17 but not all and you can see the compatible iPads right here okay so now let's talk about how to install iOS 18 public beta on your iPhone or your iPad so the first thing you want to do is go into Safari and from here you want to navigate to beta. apple.com and that's going to take you to Apple's public beta section on their website where you can enroll your device in your Apple account so it's going to say apple beta software program you can scroll down you can learn more about iOS 18 Mac OS sequia but the main thing you want to look for here is the blue sign up button you want to press on that blue sign up button and from here you will need to log in to your Apple account so you might need to put in your face ID or passcode and you might have some different terms and agreements that you have to agree to but eventually you will get to this page where it just says guide for beta software and what this does is it basically just tells you how everything works so I'm going to run through this very quickly as well since it is a little bit better to understand instead of reading the text so first off the first thing you want to do before installing the software in general is go into your iCloud section in settings and actually I'm going to show this on my iOS 17 device instead of my iOS 18 device so you want to go into your iCloud go to the iCloud section and then from here you want to go down to iCloud backup and from here you want to make sure you do back up now unless you see that your last backup was from the current day that you're trying to install this beta you just want to have everything as up to dat as possible in case anything goes wrong and you need to recover your data from a backup so definitely make sure you do an iCloud backup right before you install the iOS 18 public Beta And of course this update will also require quite a bit of storage space so you want to go into your settings General and then into iPhone storage and ensure that you have at least probably 10 gabt of you know storage remaining so preferably more but I would say that would be the minimum to ensure nothing goes wrong okay so now that you've enrolled your Apple account you've backed up your device and you've made sure that you have at least 10 gigb of storage free you need to go into your settings General software update and then from here you'll have a new section that says beta updates you want to go into here and you want to select iOS 18 public beta so once you select that you just go back and you will see the iOS 18 beta populates right here so it is 3.09 GB coming from IOS 17 so now that you have the iOS 18 public beta currently installing we need to talk about a few things that you need to be aware of so number one just know that there will be bugs this is still a beta just because it's a public beta does not mean there are not going to be any bugs there are not going to be any app crashes or anything like that because those are going to happen so what you need to do what your job is as a beta tester is to submit feedback in the feedback application so you're going to have the feedback app downloaded on your device it's going to be installed on your home screen after you install the public beta and in here is where you can go to submit your feedback any bugs issues that you have and apple will report back and hopefully fix those and something else you need to be aware of is that the battery life is going to be much worse than it was on iOS 17 so anytime we have a beta software the battery life is not going to be the best so you know if you're going on a long road trip or something where you don't typically need to pack a charger to you know charge up your device you might want to consider that when you're running the iOS 18 public beta and then as far as some of the standout features that you'll probably want to try right away with iOS 18 are number one the control centers you can see we have a much different looking Control Center and it's completely customizable now so if you tap and hold right here you can go to add control or you don't even have to go into jiggle mode you'll see we now have a plus up in the top left along with a quick way to shut down your device if you tap on that you will be able to add control and you can change and add these controls just like you could on like the you know home screen for example when you can move applications around you can move these around you can change the size kind of like widgets here in the control center which is really nice and you also have a separate section for your music your homekit and your connectivity right here so that's really nice to have in the control center also we can see that we have the dark icons now so if you tap and hold on the home screen and go to edit up in the top left we now have a customize button and from here you're able to change the icon color the kind of theme of it so it can be automatic dark light or tinted so you can also tint the color of these icons if you really want it to match with your wallpaper you can do that right there I think the dark icons look the best you could also lighten or darken your background wallpaper you could also choose to have large app icons which remove the app you know label underneath which looks pretty cool but I like having the small icons there so that's something new that you can look forward to with iOS 18 as well we also have RCS support so if you like to text with Android users you will have a much better experience in the messages application also there's a new feature where you can change by word the kind of effect that you have if you only want a certain word to be you know having an effect when you send it to somebody you can now do that here so here's what that looks like when you you send it to somebody via iMessage only this has an animation right there which is pretty neat and of course we do have gen mooji and the AI features coming later this year so we will see apple intelligence some of the features coming later this year the new Siri 2.0 will not be here with iOS 18.0 that's going to come at sometime in 2025 but some of the AI features will also be coming later so that will be something to experience with the iOS 18 public beta now if you want to see hundreds of other features in iOS 18 I've made videos here on the channel and I will link some of my best ones down in the description below if you want to see all the features and changes you can take advantage of with this new iOS 18 public beta I do also want to answer a couple of questions that I get a lot so number one what is the difference between the developer beta and the public beta so this is a very simple explanation the public beta is typically exactly the same as the developer beta like it has the same build number so for instance the iOS 18 developer beta 3 re- release has the same build number as the first iOS 18 public beta so typically the developer beta and the public beta are exactly the same the public beta just comes out after the developer beta so basically public beta users will avoid any potential major issues that developer beta testers might have had to experience since Apple will have time to fix it by the time it releases for public beta testers and then I also wanted to answer the question of should you switch from the developer beta to the public beta and I would say that it just depends so number one I would say that if it's your main device like if you have IOS 18 developer beta currently on your main device and you're maybe sick of the bugs and you don't really want to have to deal with bugs and apps crashing and things like that then I would recommend going ahead and switching to the public Beta And if you want to switch it's very easy you just go into the Beta update section and then you just choose you change from IOS 18 developer beta to iOS 18 public beta and then you wait for the next round of betas to come and you will get the public beta from here on out so if you don't want to have to deal with any potential catastrophic bugs which we have seen before if you don't want to have to deal with those on your main device I would recommend switching over to the public beta however if you've already been beta testing on iOS 18 and you've had no regrets or any like major issues and if you did have an issue you would know how to navigate around those bugs or issues then sure stay on the developer beta there's really nothing wrong with it at this point in time you are just going to have you know the risk of those more severe bugs if they were to come but if you know how to navigate around that if you're not worried about that then stay on the developer beta that is perfectly fine so that is how to install the iOS 18 public beta and also if you should switch from developer beta to public beta or vice versa if you want to switch from public beta to developer from here on out you can do that as well so hopefully this video helped answer some questions if it did not I would you know recommend commenting down below and I will do my best to get back to you down there in the comment section so I'm going to go ahead and download iOS 18 public beta on my iPhone 15 plus here and I will go ahead and check out all those new features for myself on this device but I hope this video helped you out if you did I would appreciate if you give it a thumbs up also be sure to subscribe for a lot more iOS 18 coverage but anyways guys thanks again for watching and I'll see you soonwhat's up guys my name is Brandon and Apple has just released the first public beta for iOS 18 and in this video I'm going to show you how to install the beta on your iPhone or iPad for free and what to expect from it and if you currently have the developer beta installed on your device I would consider switching over to the public beta and I'll explain why and how to do that later in this video now as far as compatibility goes if your device can run iOS 17 it can also run iOS 18 so that includes the iPhone SE the iPhone 10r 10s anything that can run iOS 17 can also run iOS 18 and the public beta now as far as iPad OS 18 it's compatible with most iPads that could run iPad OS 17 but not all and you can see the compatible iPads right here okay so now let's talk about how to install iOS 18 public beta on your iPhone or your iPad so the first thing you want to do is go into Safari and from here you want to navigate to beta. apple.com and that's going to take you to Apple's public beta section on their website where you can enroll your device in your Apple account so it's going to say apple beta software program you can scroll down you can learn more about iOS 18 Mac OS sequia but the main thing you want to look for here is the blue sign up button you want to press on that blue sign up button and from here you will need to log in to your Apple account so you might need to put in your face ID or passcode and you might have some different terms and agreements that you have to agree to but eventually you will get to this page where it just says guide for beta software and what this does is it basically just tells you how everything works so I'm going to run through this very quickly as well since it is a little bit better to understand instead of reading the text so first off the first thing you want to do before installing the software in general is go into your iCloud section in settings and actually I'm going to show this on my iOS 17 device instead of my iOS 18 device so you want to go into your iCloud go to the iCloud section and then from here you want to go down to iCloud backup and from here you want to make sure you do back up now unless you see that your last backup was from the current day that you're trying to install this beta you just want to have everything as up to dat as possible in case anything goes wrong and you need to recover your data from a backup so definitely make sure you do an iCloud backup right before you install the iOS 18 public Beta And of course this update will also require quite a bit of storage space so you want to go into your settings General and then into iPhone storage and ensure that you have at least probably 10 gabt of you know storage remaining so preferably more but I would say that would be the minimum to ensure nothing goes wrong okay so now that you've enrolled your Apple account you've backed up your device and you've made sure that you have at least 10 gigb of storage free you need to go into your settings General software update and then from here you'll have a new section that says beta updates you want to go into here and you want to select iOS 18 public beta so once you select that you just go back and you will see the iOS 18 beta populates right here so it is 3.09 GB coming from IOS 17 so now that you have the iOS 18 public beta currently installing we need to talk about a few things that you need to be aware of so number one just know that there will be bugs this is still a beta just because it's a public beta does not mean there are not going to be any bugs there are not going to be any app crashes or anything like that because those are going to happen so what you need to do what your job is as a beta tester is to submit feedback in the feedback application so you're going to have the feedback app downloaded on your device it's going to be installed on your home screen after you install the public beta and in here is where you can go to submit your feedback any bugs issues that you have and apple will report back and hopefully fix those and something else you need to be aware of is that the battery life is going to be much worse than it was on iOS 17 so anytime we have a beta software the battery life is not going to be the best so you know if you're going on a long road trip or something where you don't typically need to pack a charger to you know charge up your device you might want to consider that when you're running the iOS 18 public beta and then as far as some of the standout features that you'll probably want to try right away with iOS 18 are number one the control centers you can see we have a much different looking Control Center and it's completely customizable now so if you tap and hold right here you can go to add control or you don't even have to go into jiggle mode you'll see we now have a plus up in the top left along with a quick way to shut down your device if you tap on that you will be able to add control and you can change and add these controls just like you could on like the you know home screen for example when you can move applications around you can move these around you can change the size kind of like widgets here in the control center which is really nice and you also have a separate section for your music your homekit and your connectivity right here so that's really nice to have in the control center also we can see that we have the dark icons now so if you tap and hold on the home screen and go to edit up in the top left we now have a customize button and from here you're able to change the icon color the kind of theme of it so it can be automatic dark light or tinted so you can also tint the color of these icons if you really want it to match with your wallpaper you can do that right there I think the dark icons look the best you could also lighten or darken your background wallpaper you could also choose to have large app icons which remove the app you know label underneath which looks pretty cool but I like having the small icons there so that's something new that you can look forward to with iOS 18 as well we also have RCS support so if you like to text with Android users you will have a much better experience in the messages application also there's a new feature where you can change by word the kind of effect that you have if you only want a certain word to be you know having an effect when you send it to somebody you can now do that here so here's what that looks like when you you send it to somebody via iMessage only this has an animation right there which is pretty neat and of course we do have gen mooji and the AI features coming later this year so we will see apple intelligence some of the features coming later this year the new Siri 2.0 will not be here with iOS 18.0 that's going to come at sometime in 2025 but some of the AI features will also be coming later so that will be something to experience with the iOS 18 public beta now if you want to see hundreds of other features in iOS 18 I've made videos here on the channel and I will link some of my best ones down in the description below if you want to see all the features and changes you can take advantage of with this new iOS 18 public beta I do also want to answer a couple of questions that I get a lot so number one what is the difference between the developer beta and the public beta so this is a very simple explanation the public beta is typically exactly the same as the developer beta like it has the same build number so for instance the iOS 18 developer beta 3 re- release has the same build number as the first iOS 18 public beta so typically the developer beta and the public beta are exactly the same the public beta just comes out after the developer beta so basically public beta users will avoid any potential major issues that developer beta testers might have had to experience since Apple will have time to fix it by the time it releases for public beta testers and then I also wanted to answer the question of should you switch from the developer beta to the public beta and I would say that it just depends so number one I would say that if it's your main device like if you have IOS 18 developer beta currently on your main device and you're maybe sick of the bugs and you don't really want to have to deal with bugs and apps crashing and things like that then I would recommend going ahead and switching to the public Beta And if you want to switch it's very easy you just go into the Beta update section and then you just choose you change from IOS 18 developer beta to iOS 18 public beta and then you wait for the next round of betas to come and you will get the public beta from here on out so if you don't want to have to deal with any potential catastrophic bugs which we have seen before if you don't want to have to deal with those on your main device I would recommend switching over to the public beta however if you've already been beta testing on iOS 18 and you've had no regrets or any like major issues and if you did have an issue you would know how to navigate around those bugs or issues then sure stay on the developer beta there's really nothing wrong with it at this point in time you are just going to have you know the risk of those more severe bugs if they were to come but if you know how to navigate around that if you're not worried about that then stay on the developer beta that is perfectly fine so that is how to install the iOS 18 public beta and also if you should switch from developer beta to public beta or vice versa if you want to switch from public beta to developer from here on out you can do that as well so hopefully this video helped answer some questions if it did not I would you know recommend commenting down below and I will do my best to get back to you down there in the comment section so I'm going to go ahead and download iOS 18 public beta on my iPhone 15 plus here and I will go ahead and check out all those new features for myself on this device but I hope this video helped you out if you did I would appreciate if you give it a thumbs up also be sure to subscribe for a lot more iOS 18 coverage but anyways guys thanks again for watching and I'll see you soon\n"