You should probably wait to install the iOS 27 developer beta

Apple's WWDC 26 kicked off this morning, bringing with it plenty of talk about AI, the new Siri and important improvements to the overall state of Apple's operating systems. I'm still digesting everything that was announced, but wanted to offer some evergreen advice I'd publish every year after the opening keynote finished: Do not install any of the developer betas on your daily devices, and for that matter, you probably shouldn't install the public beta when it launches in July, either. In 2016, I wrote the same warning about iOS 10, followed by more sage advice in 2017 for iOS 11, and again in 2019 about iOS 13. All three of those are at CNET, but I know I've written the same piece at pretty much anywhere I've regularly wrote about mobile and/or Apple. Now if you'll excuse me, I've got to install iPadOS 27.