Apple’s iOS 7 Beta 5 Is Out Now

Apple’s iOS 7 Beta 5 is now available to developers who have the pre-release software installed on their devices, about a week after it released the 4th beta of the mobile OS. The software is likely approaching its final, stable launch state, as Apple has committed to a wide public launch of iOS 7 this fall.

The last couple of updates have been about ironing out some of the bugs around the major overhaul, including performance improvements, and with Beta 5 a new design for the iOS lock screen, since originally arrows indicating where to swipe to pull down notifications, and visual cues about what to do to unlock the device proved confusing to some users. That’s one of the most dramatic surface changes to Apple’s mobile OS we’ve seen during a beta testing period, indicating that Apple is paying close attention to user feedback as it prepares its first major visual refresh of iOS to date.