Tutorial: how to install iOS 8 beta on your iPhone

The million dollar question: can iOS 8 beta be installed?

If you can't wait another second and want to have all the news and show your friends the future of the iPhone you can now install iOS 8 beta, there are two ways to do it and we will tell you both below.

Install iOS 8 beta for free

UPDATE: the free method no longer works, Apple has closed the security hole that was used.

Right now you can install iOS 8 beta for free And without paying anything, it is what many of you will do but it is not what we advise you, we advise you to use the second option below to avoid the headaches that using this free method will give you.

To install iOS 8 you must be registered as a developer, or rather, that the UDID (identifier) ​​your iPhone is registered as a developer, if it is not, it will not be activated and it will stay like this:

However there is a trick to get it activated, is to use the update from iTunes loading your previous backup copy, with this you will skip the check and your iPhone will be activated with iOS 8.

Pros:

• Es free

Cons:

• Your iPhone may crash and you will have to go back to iOS 7
• If you need to restore your iPhone it will be disabled
• If you don't update to the next beta your iPhone will crash, you will have to go back to iOS 7 and then put the next beta, you can't just put the new beta, you will have to go back to iOS 7
• For some people this trick never works and they get stuck, you have to put the iPhone in recovery mode and return it to iOS 7 by selecting the firmware manually.

Install iOS 8 beta with UDID registration

The normal, legal, no-hassle way (or whatever you want to call it) is to register your UDID as a developer, in this way you can restore, update, upload beta if the previous one expires without returning to iOS 7, etc.

The ideal is that you look for a developer friend and that he registers the UDID in his account, you will be like his beta tester, and this gives you permission to install the beta. If you don't have a friend there are people who do it online by charging a small amount, you just have to search in Google «Register UDID» and you will see several options in Spanish that are reliable (there are also in English if you handle the language, but it is better to look for one in Spanish for support). Other years we have recommended some of these websites, surely by the comments you will find help.

Pros:

• You can restore your iPhone to avoid errors carried over from iOS 7 or from one beta to another
• If a beta expires you can put the next one without wasting time
• You make sure that it always works, the free method does not work for everyone

Cons:

• It is not free, it costs between 5 and 10 euros (8-12 dollars)

What should I do then?

Well it depends on your experience, if you are an advanced userYou know how to downgrade, put the iPhone in Recovery Mode and you are not afraid to dedicate the time you need to do it with the free method, if it does not work for you, you will always have time to use the UDID method.

If you don't want to waste time, you don't want to lose insights of your iPhone in restorations to previous versions where the backup copies do not work, nor do you have the necessary knowledge, the method of registering the UDID is the best for you.

¿What am I gong to do? I already have my UDID registered to do everything with peace of mind, not because you don't know what it takes to use the other method, but because I do not wanna lose my time to go down to iOS 7 to go back to the next beta and because I want to put a clean copy of iOS 8 so that there are no errors dragged down or strange battery consumption (as happened last year).

Tutorial: how to install iOS 8 betas

In either of the two previous methods you must download the iOS 8 that suits your iPhone model, connect to iTunes and press the button TO UPDATE while holding down the key Capital letters on Windows or OTHER on Mac. It's that easy. The iOS 8 download links can be found by searching Google or below in the comments that appear.

In any case, If you like the iPhone, it is HIGHLY recommended that you install iOS 8, you are going to have a great time and you are going to leave everyone with their mouths open.