A Public Beta build should be available soon

Feb 8, 2016 19:14 GMT  ·  By

Just two weeks after the release of the second Beta build of the upcoming iOS 9.3 mobile operating system, today, February 8, Apple has started seeding iOS 9.3 Beta 3 to developers enrolled in its Apple Developer program.

It looks to us like Apple is starting speeding things up a little bit with the development cycle of iOS 9.3, as well as tvOS 9.2, watchOS 2.2, and Mac OS X 10.11.4 El Capitan, and the March event you may have heard about in the news lately could have something to do with it.

Now, we're not saying that iOS 9.3 could launch until Apple's March event. However, considering that there are many rumors out there about some shiny new devices coming out, such as iPhone 6c, iPad Air 3, and Apple Watch 2, the final release of iOS 9.3 and watchOS 2.2 is not far away.

What's new in iOS Beta 3

There aren't many interesting things in this third Beta release of iOS 9.3, which Apple tagged as build 13E5200d, except for the fact that the Wi-Fi Calling feature might have just been enabled for Verizon, and the Night Shift's icons and tooltip got some improvements to the landscape mode in the Control Center.

Other than that, the iOS 9.3 Beta 3 build brings the usual security patches and bugfixes. Again, we remind you that you can get this Beta only if you have a paid Apple Developer account. Otherwise, you should wait for the Public Beta build to come out in the next few days.

In related news, today Apple has released the third Beta builds of its forthcoming Mac OS X 10.11.4 El Capitan, watchOS 2.2, and tvOS 9.2 operating systems, so if we find something interesting in those releases, we'll most certainly write some story about them later.