If you have not been paying close attention, you might still think that you need to be enrolled in the Apple Developer Program for $99 per year to install iOS developer betas, but that has not been the case for a few years now.

On the penultimate day of June 2026, also known as June 29, Apple released iOS 26.5.2. An important security update, this release patched over 25 security flaws, including some in very sensitive areas of the operating system like the kernel,