I tried it on my iPad and it seems all the apps are fine. Now its waiting for the battery drain results…
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Apple Releases First iOS 26 and iPadOS 26 Public Betas
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Give it some time. It’s reindexing. The battery page in settings may even tell you.
I don't normally like to do this, but I think I gotta try it on my iPad Pro M4 - not interested in doing it on my mac or phone as I need those for work. Good luck out there everyone!
Same with my iPhone 11.
This might be specific to the 11 as others with an 11 have been reporting the same.
Every single one of my apps has worked perfectly, even since beta 1. Maybe I’ve just been lucky though.
Couldn’t resist 😂 Apple TV and watch updated too 😂
not so far.
iPadOS
Battery drain in standby was pretty absurd on the early dev builds but seems to have settled with the last 2.
Dark mode has some quirks.
Overall poor UI design.
MacOS
Wouldn't have noticed standby drain if it was there.
Few fairly common apps not working but mostly okay.
Completely screwed up my dev environment. Redid everything but still can't get Valet working as it was before the update.
Overall poor UI design like corners too rounded, etc. We need bigger and higher res screens if we're going to have so much padding/spacing.
Battery drain in standby was pretty absurd on the early dev builds but seems to have settled with the last 2.
Dark mode has some quirks.
Overall poor UI design.
MacOS
Wouldn't have noticed standby drain if it was there.
Few fairly common apps not working but mostly okay.
Completely screwed up my dev environment. Redid everything but still can't get Valet working as it was before the update.
Overall poor UI design like corners too rounded, etc. We need bigger and higher res screens if we're going to have so much padding/spacing.
It’s hit or miss. Most songs get a simple crossfade, but if I let my station in Apple Music go, it will mix about half of the songs.
It won’t mix if you scrub through the song or skip tracks.
Changed back to split view in settings immediately.
Stage manager and this new windowed mode especially I can understand if you're plugging your iPad into a larger screen but otherwise the screen size are just too small for that to be useful.
You should have seen the first dev build...
Unbelievable they shipped that even as a first dev build.
Major issues over in Cupertino design department.
Well, it's on my iPhone 16 Pro. I wanted to see how well it works with a minimal setup (Blank Spaces, grayscale color filter, etc.), and it looks horrendous. It's working fine, but the UI is utter trash for those of us running things minimally. I'm going to spend some time fiddling with accessibility options to see if I can get things back to a somewhat flat effect (yes, already reduced transparency, etc.), but, wow... not great (either for those who like minimal UI or, I suspect, those who need various accessibility options).
Installed it this morning when it first came out, indexing should be done. At first phone was hot and kind of sluggish due to indexing putting a high load on the SOC but that straightened up in about an hour which is the same time it took whatever I installed major iOS updates in the past to index don't really have that much on my phone 128GB model with 70% free, everything so far good but still have battery life issue made sure to swipe away all apps when I'm done so they are not in the background directly, with minimal use now down to 55% used to get a whole day on iOS 18 ending around 50%. However that's seemingly with every first release or beta I'm assuming will improve once Apple makes software optimizations. Pretty much the same as every other major update I installed so nothing unusual, started going through apps and for the most part everything seems to be working, other than the usual battery life problems in betas seems to be pretty solid with a few more tweaks apple should have a good RC come September 👍
Had no strong feelings about liquid glass before, but now I've installed it on my iPad and damn... it's rough. Big step backwards. Hoping it'll grow on me, but not sure it will.
So many elements are less visually defined (i.e. stock app icons, keyboard), and the transparency compounds that whilst also being quite distracting (particularly when scrolling). Combination of these things makes it more tiring to use. On top of that the return of embossed outlines on everything feels like a tacky throwback to the 00's, I thought we were past that.
For me the best interface design is one that you barely even notice, it almost fades into insignificance as you get on with your task. This new design wants to be noticed. It’s annoying me.
So many elements are less visually defined (i.e. stock app icons, keyboard), and the transparency compounds that whilst also being quite distracting (particularly when scrolling). Combination of these things makes it more tiring to use. On top of that the return of embossed outlines on everything feels like a tacky throwback to the 00's, I thought we were past that.
For me the best interface design is one that you barely even notice, it almost fades into insignificance as you get on with your task. This new design wants to be noticed. It’s annoying me.
Just used CarPlay and I’m not sure if this is a change or not but in the turn box when a route number is inside a sign it seems to be smaller than I remember it being. So small in fact that it was hard to read on the medium-sized screen in my 2020 Hyundai Ionic. CarPlay is interesting in the Apple ecosystem and that it needs to operate on a wide range of non-Apple hardware. I don’t doubt that it looked fine in testing, but with all different screen sizes and many of them very low resolution, I hope they revise to prioritize leigibility.
On the plus side, I like that when the turn box shows two turns the second turn has a shade of gray behind it. This clearly indicates which turn is which and also visually signals when the box is showing two turns and not just one. Well played.
On the plus side, I like that when the turn box shows two turns the second turn has a shade of gray behind it. This clearly indicates which turn is which and also visually signals when the box is showing two turns and not just one. Well played.
Now, I take it back, it’s much better than the old school, it actually finished the job of what the old school atempted and failed.
Agreed. I'm not sure why the widgets need to have a glass effect. I much preferred widgets that just merged with the background. All of this is starting to remind me of Aero (yes, I survived Windows Vista). I just keep thinking they “were so preoccupied with whether they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should.” I dunno... I might go back to iOS 18.
Glass still needs work. Safari’s top pane is about 50/50 on being translucent or 100% transparent except for the address bar and buttons. My Apple Music account now has a blurred fade behind it so playlist text isn’t on top of text anymore, but the miniplayer is still too transparent.
