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Apple Seeds Second Betas of visionOS 2.6, tvOS 18.6, and watchOS 11.6

Apple today provided developers with the second betas of upcoming visionOS 2.6, tvOS 18.6, and watchOS 11.6 updates for testing purposes. The software comes two weeks after Apple released the first betas.

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

There's no word on what's included in the beta updates at this time and no features were discovered int he first betas, but we'll update this article if anything new is found.

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