Here’s When Apple Will Release The Stable Public Beta Of iOS 18 For Your iPhone

Apple released the first beta of iOS 18 shortly after it announced the platform at its WWDC 2024 event, and while it is very easy to install the beta, be aware that it comes with a slew of caveats. One of the biggest reasons why you should not install the first beta of iOS 18 is the amount of bugs crawling across the system. We have previously recommended that users should either wait for subsequent developer betas or generally wait for the company to drop the public beta builds, which will be more stable than initial developer betas. Well, it poses a question of when Apple will release the first public beta of iOS 18 for the iPhone.

Apple could release iOS 18 public beta on July 8, with Apple Intelligence to follow later

iOS 18 is one of the biggest updates the iPhone has ever received, and this is based on the company’s initial betas alone. The company will release Apple Intelligence features, which are the company’s flagship utilities for iOS 18, later this summer. The company could possibly see fit to release its AI features after the release of the first public betas have been seeded to beta testers. Currently, the question is when Apple will announce the first public beta of iOS 18, and we have a pretty good estimate of when that might happen based on past trends.

Apple’s Beta page highlights that the public betas are “Coming Soon,” but no exact time frame has been listed. From what we know, Apple has been releasing the public betas of iOS roughly three to four weeks after the developer betas. If we consider this information, the company could release iOS 18 public betas on July 8, 2024. You can check out when Apple released the public beta of iOS in the past four years for more details.

• iOS 17 public beta was released on July 12
• iOS 16 public beta was released on July 11
• iOS 15 public beta was released on June 30
• iOS 14 public beta was released on July 9

Take note that these are mere speculations, and the company could release the beta a week before or after July 8, as we are not familiar with the internal plans of the company that it has set for itself. As for the rest of the updates like watchOS 11, macOS 15, and more, the company could release the public builds at the same time as iOS 18. However, if the company runs into any fundamental issues related to the software updates, we could see a delay in the release of the public betas.