The final release of iOS 8.3 is around the corner

Mar 24, 2015 17:25 GMT  ·  By

After announcing the release of the fifth and last Beta of Mac OS X 10.10.3 Yosemite, Apple has now pushed the iOS 8.3 Beta 4 software updated, build number 12F5061, to users worldwide through its brand-new AppleSeed program.

iOS 8.3 Public Beta 4 is now available for download directly from Apple’s iOS Developer Center or over-the-air from your iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch device (see the list at the end of the article for supported devices). Please note though that this is a Beta release and it should only be installed on testing devices.

How to test the iOS 8.3 Beta 4 operating system right now

Those of you who want to take the iOS 8.3 Beta 4 software update for a test drive should know that they will have to sign up for the Apple Beta Software Program first, then select the “Enroll your iOS device to receive beta updates” option, and then download the iOS Beta Configuration Profile specific to their device.

After installing the respective profile, go to Settings -> General -> Software Update to check for updates. The new iOS 8.3 Beta 4 should appear and you can download and install right away. Once again, we remind everyone that, at the moment, you can't return to iOS 8.2 once you've updated to iOS 8.3 Beta.

iOS 8.3 Public Beta 4 supports the following iOS devices

The following iOS devices are supported by iOS 8.3 Beta 4: iPad 2 (Wi-Fi) (iPad2,1), iPad 2 (GSM) (iPad2,2), iPad 2 (CDMA) (iPad2,3), iPad 2 (Wi-Fi, 2012) (iPad2,4), iPad mini (Wi-Fi) (iPad2,5), iPad mini (GSM) (iPad2,6), iPad mini (CDMA) (iPad2,7), iPad 3 (Wi-Fi) (iPad3,1), iPad 3 (CDMA) (iPad3,2), iPad 3 (GSM) (iPad3,3), iPad 4 (Wi-Fi) (iPad3,4), iPad 4 (GSM) (iPad3,5), and iPad 4 (CDMA) (iPad3,6).

Additionally, the iPad Air (Wi-Fi) (iPad4,1), iPad Air (Cellular) (iPad4,2), iPad Air (China) (iPad4,3), iPad mini 2 (Wi-Fi) (iPad4,4), iPad mini 2 (Cellular) (iPad4,5), iPad mini 2 (China) (iPad4,6), iPad mini 3 (Wi-Fi) (iPad4,7), iPad mini 3 (Cellular) (iPad4,8), iPad mini 3 (China) (iPad4,9), and iPad Air 2 (Wi-Fi) (iPad5,3) devices are also supported.

But wait, there's more, as the iPad Air 2 (Cellular) (iPad5,4), iPhone 4s (iPhone4,1), iPhone 5 (GSM) (iPhone5,1), iPhone 5 (CDMA) (iPhone5,2), iPhone 5c (GSM) (iPhone5,3), iPhone 5c (CDMA) (iPhone5,4), iPhone 5s (GSM) (iPhone6,1), iPhone 5s (CDMA) (iPhone6,2), iPhone 6 Plus (iPhone7,1), iPhone 6 (iPhone7,2), and iPod touch 5G (iPod5,1) devices are also supported.