More OS Betas and a Place for Apple Notes - MOSK: 08.19.2025

Mac OS Ken

Ken Ray

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4.8 • 972 Ratings

🗓️ 19 August 2025

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

- Apple Seeds Fourth Betas of __OS 26 to Public Testers - Apple Seeds Seventh Betas of __OS 26 to Developers - iOS and watchOS 26 Developer Betas Bring Blood Oxygen Reading - iOS Beta Adds Adaptive Power Notification Option - Apple Opens Account on China’s RedNote - A listener asks, “Why Mastodon?” - Substack Facilitating iOS Subscriptions Outside the App Store - Japanese Artist Verdy Joins Beats for Special Edition Pill - Apple Teases Sports Comedy Film “The Dink” - Sponsored by CleanMyMac - Now with Cloud Cleanup. Try 7 days free and use code MACOSKEN20 for 20% off at clnmy.com/MACOSKEN - Securing Saint Paul and naming a culprit on Checklist No. 436 - Find it today at checklist.libsyn.com - Catch Ken on Mastodon - @[email protected] - Send Ken an email: [email protected] - Chat with us on Patreon for as little as $1 a month. Support the show at Patreon.com/macosken

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0:00.0	This is MacOS Ken.
0:08.9	Apple's parade of software betas rolls on, a new place for notes from Apple,
0:14.3	and a crazy expensive beats pill combo.
0:17.9	It is Tuesday, the 19th of August 2025. I'm Ken Ray and this is news from MacOS Ken.
0:26.8	Brought to you by yours truly and sponsored by Clean My Mac, now with Cloud Cleanup.
0:33.7	Try it free for seven days and use code MacOScan 20 for 20% off at cLNMY.com slash macOScan.
0:46.5	This show is also supported by people like you, patrons through Patreon.
0:53.5	Find out more and add your support at patreon.com slash macOS can.
1:02.5	Monday was a big day of beta software updates for developers and public testers.
1:08.8	We'll start over on 9 to 5 Mac where we find Apple releasing the fourth betas of iOS and iPadOS 26
1:15.4	to its public testing program.
1:18.2	Those were joined by the fourth betas of MacOS 26,
1:20.9	Tahoe and TVOS 26.
1:25.1	As a bonus, not really, but still, the TVOS beta includes or is a beta for the next big update for software for HomePod and HomePod mini as well.
1:38.4	People in the program, you know what happens next. Folks who want to get with the program,
1:49.1	information is available at beta.apple.com.
1:53.8	Of course, developers are streets ahead of the public testing people.
1:59.4	Pieces from Mac Rumors on Monday had Apple seating the seventh developer betas of iOS and iPad OS 26,
2:02.4	MacOS Tahoe, WatchOS, TVOS, and VisionOS 26.
2:08.8	The developer betas for watchOS and iOS bring a feature that really can't be surprising at this point,
2:16.2	despite how surprising it was, last week.
2:19.9	Another piece from Mac Rumors says the two developer betas add the blood-oxygen workaround
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