Apple's beta season is in full swing and now you can try out some of the coolest new features.

Increasingly, Apple’s beta releases are being integrated across platforms in a way that makes it unnecessary to talk about Mac, iPad, and iPhone. These devices now exist as parts of a single cloud-based platform, and they all work together in different ways. It’s great for multi-device Apple users, as we’ll see in a moment. But before we get started, there’s one thing you won’t be testing for a while. Not until the final operating system launches this fall, and maybe not even this year, and that’s the new AI features.

“The more we see generative AI in consumer-facing roles, the more we see that most tech companies are working with the same flawed product. Apple doesn’t want to get that kind of bad press and they’re not going to add those features until they’re confident they’re ready,” Soumya Mahapatra, CEO of medical device company Essenvia, told Lifewire via email.

The biggest new feature added to the second beta of iOS 18 is iPhone mirroring. This super handy feature places a virtual version of your iPhone on your Mac’s screen, and you can interact with it using your mouse. Say your iPhone is in another room and you want to check on something, just open it on your Mac. It also lets you do cool things like have a WhatsApp conversation on your phone, through your Mac.