Apple launches iOS 18.2 developer beta (the real AI update) [Video]

Apple’s iOS 18.1, which will become widely available in a few days, brings a timid list of Apple Intelligence features, with arguably some of the coolest ones missing.

But Apple’s iOS 18.2 is the real deal, and it just became available as a developer beta.

How do you install the iOS 18.2 developer beta?

First, the bad news: Even for a dev beta, which requires users to register as developers, this release is incredibly limited. It will not show up as an option for users who don’t have an AI-capable device (I, for example, am not seeing it on my iPhone 12 Pro, but I did get the iPadOS equivalent on the iPad mini 7). Furthermore, none of the new AI features are available in Europe and China.

If you are registered as developer, and you tick all the boxes (device language and Siri language must be set to English, and you must be in the U.S., …