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

Apple today provided developers with the first betas of upcoming visionOS 2.6, tvOS 18.6, and watchOS 11.6 updates for testing purposes. The software comes over a month after Apple released visionOS 2.5, tvOS 18.5, and watchOS 11.5.

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, but we'll update this article if any new features are found.

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Top Rated Comments

13 months ago
VisionOS 2.6

that's not going to be confusing at all
Score: 6 Votes (Like | Disagree)
axantas Avatar
13 months ago
I skipped the beta of 2.6 as well - VisionOS26 was too tempting and it is really running well, even as a first Beta.
Score: 4 Votes (Like | Disagree)
CarlJ Avatar
13 months ago

I'm already looking forward to the old confusion of numbers soon being a thing of the past and everything being called 26.
"Here in the future, all restaurants are Taco Bell 26."
Score: 2 Votes (Like | Disagree)
xander49x Avatar
13 months ago

"Here in the future, all restaurants are Taco Bell 26."
not many people will get it. I did.🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Score: 1 Votes (Like | Disagree)
mlenger Avatar
13 months ago

I skipped the beta of 2.6 as well - VisionOS26 was too tempting and it is really running well, even as a first Beta.
Same here - quite stable so far. I am very pleased to see Apple invest so much resources into Vision OS development
Score: 1 Votes (Like | Disagree)
JohannesO Avatar
13 months ago
I'm already looking forward to the old confusion of numbers soon being a thing of the past and everything being called 26.
Score: 1 Votes (Like | Disagree)