Apple launched the first betas of iOS 18 and iPadOS 18 earlier this month throughout its Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), and immediately the firm is pushing the second beta for each. Note that these are usually not public betas – they’re developer-focused, and as such, can solely be put in by builders. Public betas will arrive subsequent month.
iPadOS 18 beta 2 brings support for alternative app stores in the EU, together with alternative fee choices in Apple’s App Store, a default internet browser choice display, and the means for browsers to make use of engines aside from Safari’s.
All of those come as a consequence of the European Commission designating iPadOS as a “gatekeeper platform”, which makes it compulsory for these options to be provided beneath the EU’s Digital Markets Act. All of those concessions have been first added by Apple to iOS 17.4 again in March, and now they’re coming to iPadOS too.
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In the meantime, iOS 18 beta 2 brings support for iPhone mirroring on macOS Sequoia beta 2. This enables you to totally management your iPhone utilizing your Mac, with the iPhone staying locked all through. The function was introduced at WWDC.
There’s additionally a brand new toggle for the RCS protocol that Apple is lastly supporting in iOS 18. This will present up in case your provider helps RCS.
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