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Apple Seeds Fourth Betas of visionOS 2.5, tvOS 18.5, and watchOS 11.5

Apple today provided developers with the fourth betas of upcoming visionOS 2.5, tvOS 18.5, and watchOS 11.5 updates for testing purposes. The software is available a week after Apple seeded the third betas.

General visionOS watchOS and tvOS Betas Feature Redux
The betas are available to registered developers, and can be downloaded from the Settings app on each device.

No notable new features have been found in any of the software updates so far, suggesting Apple is focusing on under-the-hood performance improvements and bug fixes.

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Top Rated Comments

12 months ago
Can't wait to see what Apple will do with the next version of Vision Pro.
Nice looking 3D render!
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Think|Different Avatar
12 months ago
Kind of wild there's almost nothing in these – I guess it is a 'dot' update but you just subconsciously think a ".5" will have something of note. Very cool 3D render, by the way – great use of Non-AI art!
Score: 3 Votes (Like | Disagree)
thefrost Avatar
12 months ago
Not surprised to see nothing significant as not many things get added to these updates. Also, I love that image!
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12 months ago
Congrats, AngerDanger, that's a very creative and beautiful composition!
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