Apple is rolling out the first public beta of the iOS 18 software update for the iPhone owners worldwide. The massive public beta update measures as much as a typical Windows 11 ISO download. Of course, the file size may vary depending on your iPhone model. Before you jump the gun to download and install it, make sure you take a complete backup of the contacts, photos, videos, documents, and other files from your iPhone.
How to Get iOS 18 Public Beta on Your iPhone
Apple offers a Beta Program for you to enroll your iPhone and fetch the available public beta updates. Before you proceed, check our iOS 18 compatibility list to verify whether your iPhone can run the update. Also, you don’t need to download beta profiles or perform any workarounds. Follow these steps:
1. Head to the Apple Beta Program page and sign up using your Apple ID (the same one you use on your iPhone and other devices).
2. After you receive the confirmation email, open the Settings app on your iPhone.
3. Navigate to General > Software Update.
4. Tap on Beta Updates section and select iOS 18 Public Beta.
5. Select Update Now when the new iOS 18 Public Beta update appears.
Try All the New Features in iOS 18
Loaded with a host of new features, you’ll always wonder where to start. Of course, you’d be driven to try out the features Apple showed off at the World Wide Developer Conference 2024 in June. Initially, your iPhone may appear a bit slow since it’ll try to sync your iCloud data like photos, documents, videos, photo tags, emails, etc. After a day or two, it will work like it got a second wind. Besides taking several pages of inspiration from Android, you’ll finally get to customize the icons of your favorite apps. Also, you can spruce up the iPhone’s Home Screen to your heart’s content.
Besides the new features, do not miss out the hidden features in iOS 18 that are not easy to spot. From the new T9 Dialing to the new jazzed up Calculator app, there’s a lot to scour through. One of the most interesting feature updates in the Photos app and it’ll change how you use it to organize your photos. Following the speculated bug of deleted photos resurfacing, Apple grabbed the opportunity to offer recovery of corrupt photos on your iPhone.
The Photos app has become elaborate enough to offer you a new view under Utilities section that shows details of all your recent activities – Deleted, Viewed, Saved, Shared, Hidden, or Imports. Along with that, the Photos app will also show an album labeled “Recovered” to gather all the photos or videos that got corrupt or didn’t sync properly with iCloud.
Of course, you’ll get the option to permanently delete or restore those “Recovered” photos to your library. Also, you won’t see this album unless your Photos library suffers any database corruption.
Also Read: How to use iPhone Mirroring with iOS 18 and macOS Sequoia
How to Roll Back From iOS 18 Public Beta to iOS 17
Let’s face it – your banking and other crucial apps might be the first ones to fail after you update to iOS 18 beta. It’s still not late if you’ve just discovered that. You can always roll back to iOS 17 and wait for a the proper, public roll out of iOS 18 that’s expected in September. Follow our guide on rolling back to iOS 17 without losing data on iPhone.
