If you're on macOS Catalina, open Finder and find your iPhone in the sidebar. Mac users need to connect their phone to their computer via USB. There are multiple ways to do this (Opens in a new tab), but it might be best to do it on a Mac or Windows computer. If you want to avoid this or dealing with bugs in general, Apple recommends making a backup of your iPhone as it exists with iOS 13 before you take the iOS 14 plunge.
On the macOS side of things, a beta build a couple of years ago once made a bunch of apps stop working (Opens in a new tab) because they weren't compatible. Credit: Screenshot: mashable Create a backupĪ beta version of new software could, theoretically, mess up your phone real bad. IOS 14 has plenty of new bells and whistles. If you don't have any of those, you're out. The short version is that anything newer than an iPhone 6 will work, but here's the full list of compatible devices: Make sure your device supports iOS 14įirst up, you need an iPhone that actually works with the new iOS. You'll get to test an unfinished, constantly evolving version of the new iOS before the rest of the world.īefore you can do that, though, you'll need to do a few easy things first.
When that happens, there are some pretty simple steps you can take to hop on the beta bandwagon. The public beta for iOS 14 doesn't have an exact release date yet, but Apple has said it's coming sometime this month. Apple's next iteration of iOS probably won't be fully cooked and ready to serve until sometime in September, but you can get in on the fun as early as July if you know what to do.
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