Apple Seeds Fifth Beta of macOS Ventura 13.5 to Developers [Update: Public Beta Available]

Apple today seeded the fifth beta of macOS Ventura 13.5 to developers for testing purposes, with the beta introduced two weeks after the release of the fourth beta.

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Registered developers can download the beta through the Apple Developer Center and after the appropriate profile is installed, with the betas available through the Software Update mechanism in System Settings.

No notable features have been found in macOS 13.5, so it's not yet clear what's included in the update.

With macOS Sonoma now in development and slated for launch this fall, Apple's work on macOS 13 will soon be wrapping up. macOS 13.5 is likely to be one of the final updates to macOS Ventura.

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Top Rated Comments

Realityck Avatar
33 months ago
Obviously Apple needs a bit longer to work out some issues, so no RC yet

To devs today

* iOS 16.6 beta 5 (20G5070a) - July 10, 2023
* iPadOS 16.6 beta 5 (20G5070a) - July 10, 2023
* macOS 13.5 beta 5 (22G5072a) - July 10, 2023
* watchOS 9.6 beta 5 (20U5570a) - July 10, 2023
* tvOS 16.6 beta 5 (20M5571a) - July 10, 2023
Score: 3 Votes (Like | Disagree)
star-affinity Avatar
33 months ago

Don’t care about Ventura anymore, I want the Sonoma public beta…
I likely won’t care about Sonoma until at least the first point update, so the Ventura 13.5 upate is very welcome. :)

Also all computers at work be on Sonoma until it's been out in the wild for some time.
Score: 3 Votes (Like | Disagree)
jz0309 Avatar
33 months ago

I likely won’t care about Sonoma until at least the first point update, so the Ventura 13.5 upate is very welcome. :)

Also all computers at work be on Sonoma until it's been out in the wild for some time.
I won't put Sonoma on my main computer either until later this year, but, I have a M1 MBA that has no data that I care about and I've had it on Venture public beta since that was first available last year, so that is the Mac I want the Sonoma PB for ...
Score: 2 Votes (Like | Disagree)
jz0309 Avatar
33 months ago
Don’t care about Ventura anymore, I want the Sonoma public beta…
Score: 2 Votes (Like | Disagree)
tywebb13 Avatar
33 months ago

Obviously Apple needs a bit longer to work out some issues, so no RC yet

To devs today

* iOS 16.6 beta 5 (20G5070a) - July 10, 2023
* iPadOS 16.6 beta 5 (20G5070a) - July 10, 2023
* macOS 13.5 beta 5 (22G5072a) - July 10, 2023
* watchOS 9.6 beta 5 (20U5570a) - July 10, 2023
* tvOS 16.6 beta 5 (20M5571a) - July 10, 2023

Also out is

macOS Monterey 12.6.8 RC3 build 21G724
macOS Big Sur 11.7.9 RC3 build 20G1424
audioOS 16.6 beta 5 build 20M5571a

There is an ipsw for macOS Ventura 13.5 beta 5 (22G5072a) but not a full installer yet, nor for the new Monterey or Big Sur RCs. That may come later, maybe tomorrow.
Score: 1 Votes (Like | Disagree)
Apple Fan 2008 Avatar
33 months ago
I already have Sonoma on my main MacBook
Score: 1 Votes (Like | Disagree)