Public beta 2 for macOS 15.2, iPadOS 18.2, and more adds these new features

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One week after the first public betas launched, Apple has released new public beta 2 builds for macOS Sequoia 15.2, iPadOS 18.2, tvOS 18.2, and watchOS 11.2. Here’s everything that’s new.

New features in public beta 2

There were a ton of new features and changes introduced in the first public betas last week.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, then, the list of changes in beta 2 is relatively short:

the TV app in iPadOS 18.2 now has a customizable tab bar so you can make it your own
videos played inside the Photos app no longer zoom in/out with a tap, but rather they revert to the iOS 17 behavior of playing fullscreen from the start
various tweaks to different interface elements, like the redesigned AirDrop icon

Overall, public beta 2 seems focused largely on performance improvements and bug fixes. Anecdotally, the release appears more stable than before.

iPadOS 18.2, macOS 15.2, and their companion updates will ship publicly in December. So the closer we get to launch day, the more Apple’s focus will be on stabilizing the updates rather than adding new features.