AppleInsider Staff
Apple on Wednesday provided members of its public beta program with new versions of both iOS 9 and OS X 10.11 El Capitan, marking the second versions of the publicly available pre-release software.
Both iOS 9 and OS X El Capitan are now available to download for members of the Apple Beta Software Program. The upcoming operating system updates are not final, and users should expect assorted bugs and issues if they install.
Signing up for Apple's public beta program is free, and can be done from the company's website.
The new public betas come just one day after Apple supplied the fourth developer betas for iOS 9 and OS X El Capitan. It's likely that Wednesday's public releases are identical.
The latest developer beta of iOS 9 reinstated Home Sharing after it had been removed from previous versions. It also features a few minor user interface adjustments, including a new way of displaying Handoff panes in the app switcher.
Also this week, Apple prevented beta testers from reviewing App Store software. Negative reviews of apps not yet updated for future versions of iOS had become an issue for developers.
Both iOS 9 and OS X 10.11 El Capitan are scheduled to become available to the general public this fall. If Apple follows its typical annual release cycle, iOS 9 will arrive in September, while El Capitan will become available on the Mac App Store in October.
The first public betas of iOS 9 and El Capitan were made available earlier this month. Apple has not done a public beta of its forthcoming watchOS 2 update for the Apple Watch.
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31 Comments
Yay!
It's a 314MB download on my iPhone, 282 on my iPad.
[quote name="TheWhiteFalcon" url="/t/187319/apple-releases-second-public-betas-of-ios-9-os-x-10-11-el-capitan#post_2751368"]Yay! It's a 314MB download on my iPhone, 282 on my iPad. [/quote]Great update, fixed all my problems with slowness and crashes on some apps! Good work Apple!
CARROT Weather works again, which makes me happy indeed. It also seems to have reduced the OS footprint by 200MB, so it's now a net 200MB increase over 8. Hopefully that keeps going down, to at least a net zero increase.
It fixed my problem of the App Store not accepting my username or password. Boy, that was frustrating. Haven't had a chance to check anything else yet.
El Capitan is amazingly fast on my 2011 MBA. I have never experienced such an increase in speed going from one OS to it's replacement. Great work by the team at Apple. EDIT#1: This version of the beta for iOS 9 appears to have fixed the wobble my iPhone 6 had while mounted in it's Apple dock. Sweet. EDIT#2: The iOS 9 wallpaper of the coloured wave has also been updated and now includes a picture of Mick Fanning sitting on a surfboard punching a shark.