Apple Releases iOS 26.1 With Liquid Glass Toggle, Slide to Stop Alarm, New Apple Intelligence Languages and More

[klasma]

I presume I can also just turn it off and go back to old readable mode?

Nope.

 

[MikesGravity]

Stuck in attempting data recovery loop now dammit. Genius Bar here I come I guess.

 

[DeanCorp]

As I suspected iPhone 17 WiFi speed has significantly improved on 26.1

 

[nepalisherpa]

12.79 GB for my iPhone 17 Air - Wowie. That's not small. Also interesting - Monday after 1pm...

I updated four devices and they were all different sizes.

M4 iPad Pro: about 12.6GB
iPhone 17 Pro: 11.44GB
iPhone Air: about 2.6GB
iPad A16: about 2.5GB

 

[iZac]

I immediately tested the “tinted” version of Liquid Glass - I still think “reduce motion” in the accessibility settings is still the best way to reduce the glassy effects.

 

[Eureka20]

My guess is that Apple made it laggy so people in the Apple Stores would choose Pro over Regular….

I always get the pro-- it's just ungodly laggy. I didn't have time to make an appointment but I showed one of the staff at the store and he was like "yeah that's not supposed to be doing that---" and suggested hopefully an update would fix. My fingers are super crossed because this is such a pain in the butt.

 

[klasma]

I updated four devices and they were all different sizes.

M4 iPad Pro: about 12.6GB
iPhone 17 Pro: 11.44GB
iPhone Air: about 2.6GB
iPad A16: about 2.5GB

The large sizes are ML models for Apple Intelligence.

 

[Eureka20]

Glad I wasn't alone on the phones feeling a bit warm during update-- it's still updating and the phone is getting so hot I had to put it on my lunchbox cooler pack 🥵

 

[TimAppleObamna]

Is the app outline redrawing fixed for anyone?

 

[Qubelek]

They still didn’t fix the main bug. It works the same way on my iPad PRO M5. LMAO.

 

[Lizzard899]

I just updated to ios 26.1 and just a heads up messages app is taking up tons of storage for no good reason when I have 0 texts in the app. Not sure why its saying its full when its not.

 

[decypher44]

Anyone tried wired CarPlay with a 17 device yet? I'd like to consider that a fairly crucial fix/flaw since since it freezes and hangs consistently when driving requiring you to plug and unplug (sometimes) and other times a full vehicle restart to get it working again. I'm actually shocked this hasn't gotten more vocal press and publicity that carplay if you're wired is basically useless if you have a 17 device.

Only issue I’ve had with 26 is it won’t connect while locked, even though I have that enabled. Kind of annoying. I’m hoping this update fixes that. Will know later this afternoon.

 

[xraydoc]

New tinted Liquid Glass toggle turned on.

 

[Lizzard899]

Soon we will see, 26.1.1, mark my word.

I predict 26.1.1 will be out by friday

 

[RA1N1]

Soon we will see, 26.1.1, mark my word.

They still didn’t fix the main bug. It works the same way on my iPad PRO M5. LMAO.

Only issue I’ve had with 26 is it won’t connect while locked, even though I have that enabled. Kind of annoying. I’m hoping this update fixes that. Will know later this afternoon.

Like I said, 26.1.1 is coming soon… 🧐

 

[RA1N1]

I predict 26.1.1 will be out by friday

Everything is possible, or they will do what they did with 26.0.2 they skipped, nuke 26.1, skip 26.1.1 and jump to 26.2, with how things are going and Apple doing these odd update behaviours…

 

[kenta_]

There better be some performance improvements, springboard is painfully slow (updating icons for web bookmarks).

 

[nepalisherpa]

The large sizes are ML models for Apple Intelligence.

So, how would same model of device have different sized download?

 

[kenta_]

They still didn’t fix the main bug. It works the same way on my iPad PRO M5. LMAO.

What’s the issue? All I see is pages flipping, or is that the issue LOL?

 

[Eureka20]

So--- has anyone else updated their phone and it just hangs at the end of the progress bar with the apple logo? It's been like 20 minutes. Im getting nervous.

 

[HVDynamo]

Hmm, do I update my 12 Pro to iOS 26 now, or wait longer? Anyone else with a 12 Pro have experience with iOS 26 on it yet?

 

[maxsquared]

As I suspected iPhone 17 WiFi speed has significantly improved on 26.1

What speed did you get before?

 

[RA1N1]

What’s the issue? All I see is pages flipping, or is that the issue LOL?

There is a big issues and clearly showing, odd interface glitches.

 

[klasma]

So, how would same model of device have different sized download?

You listed four different models, but there may be reasons why the same model gets different sizes, due to different settings and different (un)installed/used apps.

 

[MrCdvr]

Is the app outline redrawing fixed for anyone?

Brand new iPhone 16 pro, it's even worse on 26.1, whole springboard is redrawing every few minutes, have similar issues on iPad Pro but not as bad as on iPhone, that's like worst update since iOS 7