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New iOS beta brings first look at Apple’s COVID-19 contact-tracing API

By Ed Hardy • 10:46 am, April 29, 2020

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iPhone showing coronavirus that causes COVID-19 — iPhones will help slow the spread of the novel coronavirus that’s the cause of Covid-19.
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The third beta of iOS 13.5 released on Wednesday gives developers their first look at the coronavirus contact-tracing tool that Apple is creating in cooperation with Google.

iPadOS 13.5 Developer Beta 3 was also debuted today, along with the initial beta of Xcode 11.5.

Apple surprises devs with new beta software for iPhone, Mac and more

By Buster Hein • 10:40 am, March 31, 2020

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Even Apple’s update screens are beautifully minimal. — Apple is back with some new beta updates.
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Just a week after Apple released iOS 13.4 and other big software updates to the public, the iPhone-maker is back with a big batch of beta builds for developers.

The first beta builds for iOS 13.4.5, iPadOS 13.4.5, macOS 10.15.5 and tvOS 13.4.5 were seeded to developers this morning, bringing a bunch of bug fixes to the iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple TV.