Apple Seeds iOS 26.1, iPadOS 26.1, and macOS Tahoe 26.1 Release Candidates

Apple today provided developers and public beta testers with the release candidate versions of upcoming iOS 26.1, iPadOS 26.1, macOS Tahoe 26.1, tvOS 26.1, watchOS 26.1, and visionOS 26.1 updates for testing purposes. The RCs betas come a week after Apple released the fourth betas.

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The new betas can be downloaded from the Settings app on a compatible device by going to General > Software Update.

Apple Intelligence is now available in more languages in the updates, including Danish, Dutch, Norwegian, Portuguese (Portugal), Swedish, Turkish, Chinese (Traditional), and Vietnamese. AirPods Live Translation also works with Japanese, Korean, Italian, and Chinese (both Mandarin Traditional and Simplified) in iOS 26.1.

There's a toggle to adjust the opacity of Liquid Glass, the Lock Screen Camera swipe can be disabled, and there are visual changes to Calendar, Safari, Apple Music, and Photos. Details on everything new in iOS 26.1 so far can be found in our iOS 26.1 feature list.

The iOS 26.1, iPadOS 26.1, macOS Tahoe 26.1, tvOS 26.1, watchOS 26.1, and visionOS 26.1 software will be released in early November.

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Top Rated Comments

thejadedmonkey Avatar
7 weeks ago
Can't be worse! :D

Seriously, I'm excited for the update.
Score: 12 Votes (Like | Disagree)
tywebb13 Avatar
7 weeks ago
builds

iOS 26.1 RC 1 (23B82)
iOS 18.7.2 RC 1 (22H123)
iPadOS 26.1 RC 1 (23B82)
iPadOS 18.7.2 RC 1 (22H123)
macOS 26.1 RC 1 (25B77)
macOS 15.7.2 RC 4 (24G325)
macOS 14.8.2 RC 4(23J126)
tvOS 26.1 RC 1 (23J580)
audioOS 26.1 RC 1 (23J580)
visionOS 26.1 RC 1 (23N48)
watchOS 26.1 RC 1 (23S36)
Score: 11 Votes (Like | Disagree)
Love-hate ? relationship Avatar
7 weeks ago

I'm not sure if you're just asking to ask but you've been on the forums long enough to know that RCs have a newer build than the betas before it. And that public release is some time in the week after the RC release.
I've had stressful day and took a med that makes me very slow, if you wanna know everything
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mdnz Avatar
7 weeks ago

I suppose stable might come this week?

Would there be differences between release candidate and beta 4 ?
Next week most likely.
Score: 9 Votes (Like | Disagree)
powertenor Avatar
7 weeks ago
Sure hope they have fixed the CarPlay bugs with the iPhone 17 Pros. Totally unusable!!
Score: 6 Votes (Like | Disagree)
HQuest Avatar
7 weeks ago

And does release candidate usually differ from its previous beta ? In this case beta 4

I do not know, whether it "usually" does not differ from the previous beta. But in this case I can confirm, that the RC is in fact the Beta 4.

Isn’t beta 4 different from this RC? They are not the same.
The RC code usually removes any debugging code left behind used by Apple to collect data about the beta quality. This is generally what makes a "beta" to be promoted to "release candidate". The Release Candidate ends up most of the time being the same shipped as final to non-developers, however sometimes last-minute changes are implemented on the final, non-developers code, and the actual release is different from the RC.
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