Apple launched the primary betas of iOS 18 and iPadOS 18 earlier this month throughout its Worldwide Builders Convention (WWDC), and right now the corporate is pushing the second beta for each. Observe that these should 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 assist for various app shops within the EU, together with various fee choices in Apple’s App Retailer, a default net browser choice display, and the power for browsers to make use of engines apart from Safari’s.
All of those come as a consequence of the European Fee designating iPadOS as a “gatekeeper platform”, which makes it compulsory for these options to be provided underneath the EU’s Digital Markets Act. All of those concessions had been first added by Apple to iOS 17.4 again in March, and now they’re coming to iPadOS too.
Within the meantime, iOS 18 beta 2 brings assist for iPhone mirroring on macOS Sequoia beta 2. This allows you to absolutely management your iPhone utilizing your Mac, with the iPhone staying locked all through. The characteristic was introduced at WWDC.
There’s additionally a brand new toggle for the RCS protocol that Apple is lastly supporting in iOS 18. This can present up in case your provider helps RCS.
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