iOS 27 Release Date: Latest Schedule Confirms iPhone’s July Public Beta
iOS 27 Release Date: Latest Schedule Confirms iPhone’s July Public Beta
Publish Date: 2026-07-12 17:37:00
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July 12 update: this post, first published on July 11, was updated with more information, including a new report from Bloomberg.
Apple announced the next-generation of iPhone software, iOS 27, at its Wordwide Developers Conference in June. It’s still in developer beta, but if everything goes according to plan, the first public beta, when many more people will try it out, should land any day now. Here’s what’s coming and when. And there’s now a new report from Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman to add to the conviction that the public beta is almost here.
iOS 27 Schedule To Date
The story so far is that the first developer beta of iOS 27 which, like other developer betas is available to all, for free (details here), was released on Monday, June 8. That was the same day as the WWDC keynote.
The second beta landed on Monday, June 22, and the third on Monday, July 6. Talk about regular as clockwork. Every two weeks, on the dot. Here’s where it gets interesting.
In 2022, 2023 and 2024, Apple released the first public beta exactly a week after dev beta 3. Actually, in 2022, the public beta was just five days after the developer beta.
The 2025 iOS Schedule
However, something different happened last year: it was after the fourth developer beta (released on July 22, 2025) that the first public beta appeared, on July 24. It looked like Apple was taking its time with the all-new Liquid Glass design change.
All of which says that unless this year is a repeat of the 2025 schedule, there’s a strong chance that the iOS 27 first public beta will land on Monday, July 13 or Tuesday, July 14.
I think that’s the timetable Apple is following, because numerous sources have praised the software, including Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, who reported he’d been using the new Apple software. Since the first versions were released at WWDC, and in terms of bugs, they’ve been…
