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Distraction Control, Photos & more — hands on with all the changes in iOS 18 beta 5

On Monday, Apple released the fifth developer beta of iOS 18. We’ve been testing it out and here are all the new changes and features we’ve found so far, including Distraction Control and major Photos app tweaks.

An iPhone on a white table showing the update screen for iOS 18 developer beta 5 downloading
Apple has released the fifth developer beta of iOS 18

These latest betas come roughly two months after Apple initially revealed the updates at its annual developer conference. On our iPhone 15 Plus, the update weighed in at 1.42GB coming from beta four. The build number was 22A5326f.

Notably, these changes were included in the iOS 18.0 beta, not the iOS 18.1 version. If you jumped to the .1 update to test out Apple Intelligence, you’ll have to wait for a new beta of that before you’ll see any of these new features or changes.

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