{"id":236011,"date":"2024-06-25T00:59:16","date_gmt":"2024-06-25T00:59:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/25\/ios-18-beta-2-is-out-ipados-18-beta-2-brings-support-for-alternative-app-stores-in-the-eu\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T17:16:16","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T17:16:16","slug":"ios-18-beta-2-is-out-ipados-18-beta-2-brings-support-for-alternative-app-stores-in-the-eu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/25\/ios-18-beta-2-is-out-ipados-18-beta-2-brings-support-for-alternative-app-stores-in-the-eu\/","title":{"rendered":"iOS 18 beta 2 is out, iPadOS 18 beta 2 brings support for alternative app stores in the EU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"review-body\">\n<p>Apple released the first betas of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gsmarena.com\/ios_18_is_official_with_apple_intelligence_more_customization_than_ever-news-63224.php\">iOS 18<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gsmarena.com\/ipados_18_brings_native_calculator_app_new_personalization_features_and_apple_intelligence_-news-63223.php\">iPadOS 18<\/a> earlier this month during its Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), and today the company is pushing the second beta for both. Note that these are not public betas &#8211; they are developer-focused, and as such, can only be installed by developers. Public betas will arrive next month.<\/p>\n<p>iPadOS 18 beta 2 brings support for alternative app stores in the EU, along with alternative payment options in Apple&#8217;s App Store, a default web browser selection screen, and the ability for browsers to use engines other than Safari&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"inline-image\" width=\"1200\" height=\"750\" src=\"https:\/\/fdn.gsmarena.com\/imgroot\/news\/24\/06\/ios-18-ipados-18-beta-2\/inline\/-1200w5\/gsmarena_001.jpg\" alt=\"iOS 18 beta 2 is out, iPadOS 18 beta 2 brings support for alternative app stores in the EU\"\/><\/p>\n<p>All of these come as a consequence of the European Commission <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gsmarena.com\/eu_commission_designates_ipados_as_gatekeeper-news-62651.php\">designating iPadOS as a &#8220;gatekeeper platform&#8221;<\/a>, which makes it obligatory for these features to be offered under the EU&#8217;s Digital Markets Act. All of these concessions were first added by Apple to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gsmarena.com\/ios_174_is_now_out_with_support_for_third_party_app_stores_in_the_eu-news-61880.php\">iOS 17.4<\/a> back in March, and now they&#8217;re coming to iPadOS too.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"inline-image\" width=\"1200\" height=\"799\" src=\"https:\/\/fdn.gsmarena.com\/imgroot\/news\/24\/06\/ios-18-ipados-18-beta-2\/inline\/-1200\/gsmarena_002.jpg\" alt=\"iOS 18 beta 2 is out, iPadOS 18 beta 2 brings support for alternative app stores in the EU\"\/><\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, iOS 18 beta 2 brings support for iPhone mirroring on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gsmarena.com\/macos_sequoia_comes_with_iphone_mirroring_and_apple_intelligence-news-63225.php\">macOS Sequoia<\/a> beta 2. This lets you fully control your iPhone using your Mac, with the iPhone staying locked throughout. The feature was announced at WWDC.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"inline-image\" width=\"1200\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/fdn.gsmarena.com\/imgroot\/news\/24\/06\/ios-18-ipados-18-beta-2\/inline\/-1200\/gsmarena_003.jpg\" alt=\"iOS 18 beta 2 is out, iPadOS 18 beta 2 brings support for alternative app stores in the EU\"\/><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s also a new toggle for the RCS protocol that Apple is finally supporting in iOS 18. This will show up if your carrier supports RCS.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-source\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2024\/06\/24\/everything-new-in-ios-18-beta-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Source 1<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2024\/06\/24\/ipados-18-beta-2-includes-eu-changes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Source 2<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gsmarena.com\/ios_18_beta_2_is_out_ipados_18_beta_2_brings_support_for_alternative_app_stores_in_the_eu-news-63420.php\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Apple released the first betas of iOS 18 and iPadOS 18 earlier this month during its Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), and today the company<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":236012,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[165],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236011"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236011\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}