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Apple has just pushed out the third beta for iOS 17 and iPadOS 17. That’s just two weeks after Beta 2 was released, and we expect this to also be the public beta, but no word on that just yet. On Apple’s website, it still shows as “coming soon”.
This beta update still appears to be a pretty large one, at about 1.15GB in size. That means that each of the betas since the first one, has been over a gigabyte in size. Hopefully that means lots of bugs have been fixed.
Early reports are saying that this beta was a quick one to install, which is a bit of a surprise after Beta 2. Which took quite some time to install. So despite the larger size here, it might actually be mostly a bug fixer.
In iOS 17, there’s not a ton of big features, this is more of a stability release this year. But it is releasing some cool features like Contact Posters. Which is a customizable poster that others will see when you call. Apple also redesigned the iMessage apps screen, making it easier to jump into apps and share photos, location and much more.
iPadOS 17 Beta 3 released too
Apple has also released the third beta for iPadOS 17, which honestly, has a bigger upgrade this year compared to iOS 17. Apple typically likes to push out features to iPadOS a year after they launched on iOS. So this year, with iPadOS 17, we’re getting new lockscreen widgets, as well as interactive widgets (which is an iOS 17 feature). So it’s almost more exciting to get iPadOS 17.
Both can be downloaded now by heading into the Settings on your iPhone or iPad. Tapping on General, then Software Update. You might need to recheck Developer Beta updates and turn them back on. I’ve noticed on my iPhone 14 Pro, that it was pushed back to turning Beta updates off, for some reason.