Locally is of course fine, I just don't understand why it can't seem to sync correctly, consistently, across devices.
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Apple Releases iOS 26.1 With Liquid Glass Toggle, Slide to Stop Alarm, New Apple Intelligence Languages and More
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Locally is of course fine, I just don't understand why it can't seem to sync correctly, consistently, across devices.
I don't know what's typical but that sounds reasonable to me which is why I always make sure I have a pretty full charge or have my phone plugged in when doing updates.
So we get a toggle to tint liquid glass on everything but the Apple Watch?! come on, apple.
NO NO I delete my texts myself manually and from recently deleted. I also have my settings set to keep texts for 30 days. There shouldnt be anything there. Even when I open the app not to do anything the app storage increases. Its very odd
Weird. I had to manually boot up my iPhone 17 PM in the middle of the update since it went black for a while. I am updating from the Release Candidate.
Just now (10 pm ET) doing this wired into Mac mini - iPad mini 32GB - 9.71 GB download just wouldn't fit. Tomorrow will get to iPhone as long as pad isn't broken.
Apple today released iOS 26.1, the first major update to the iOS 26 operating system that came out in September, iOS 26.1 comes over a month after iOS 26 launched. iOS 26.1 is compatible with the iPhone 11 series and later, as well as the second-generation iPhone SE.
The new software can be downloaded on eligible iPhones over-the-air by going to Settings > General > Software Update.
iOS 26.1 adds a toggle to increase the opacity of Liquid Glass for those who want less translucency. Alarms and Timers now require a swipe to turn them off, and there's finally an option to turn off the Lock Screen Camera swipe.
Apple Intelligence and AirPods Live Translation are available in additional languages, and there are small changes to Settings, Music, TV, Phone, Fitness, Photos, and Safari.
For more on the new features in iOS 26, we have a dedicated roundup.
Article Link: Apple Releases iOS 26.1 With Liquid Glass Toggle, Slide to Stop Alarm, New Apple Intelligence Languages and More
I would be happy with the ability to archive anything prior to a year ago - by caller if needed - to a simple offline text format file. Bundle any associated attachments into a compressed archive.
Liquid Vaseline (as someone else on this site mentioned a few weeks ago)
Will be keeping liquid glass setting to clear. Changes to music player is nice. Also the slide to stop alarm will be beneficial for me. Will be updating my 17 Pro Max in the coming days.
My phone feels a lot better. Some very welcome tweaks and fixes.
The lag when scrolling, particularly in safari - presumably because iOS was trying to work out the transparency for UI elements constantly, is gone.
This feels like the 26 that Apple should’ve launched with 26.0.
The lag when scrolling, particularly in safari - presumably because iOS was trying to work out the transparency for UI elements constantly, is gone.
This feels like the 26 that Apple should’ve launched with 26.0.
And yet again update causes my iPhone 15 Pro Max to crash during the update requiring a DFU mode, restore and then a whole day to restore from back up and download apps. On earth can this keep happening? Why on earth do I keep trusting Apple to get an update right it’s been years?! Laggy buggy. It just doesn’t run well anymore and this phone is a year and a half old. There’s no excuse for it. My four-year-old iPad Pro M1 updates no problem. But the iPhone nothing but the problems. And now I have to restore my watch. I have to read credit cards on and on I mean, what’s the point Tim has got to go.
And please don’t even get me started on dictation, random punctuation, utterly horrifically, piss, poor word recognition.
And please don’t even get me started on dictation, random punctuation, utterly horrifically, piss, poor word recognition.
There’s a lot of hoarders in these forums who need to have every single photo video and film/tv series they own on their device, fully downloaded.
Plus every app that they ever might want to use !
And fair enough if they want to. Apple loves those people, those 1tb+ storage tiers are sweet sweet profit for them.
It’s simply so you buy a phone with more storage next time and/ makes you upgrade ie more $ for Apple.
I’m sure the base storage of 256 reflects that people who have been using the iPhone for 5 years plus have big iMessage data stores etc.
I agree.
Why such crude time choices?
30 Days, One Year, Forever
I'd probably choose a week for my watch, two years for my phone and my MBP, and forever (or several years) on my Mac mini. With Forever in iCloud.
But I'd like improvements to managing retained messages. Like removing attached photos if I have already chosen to add them to my Photos. (Leaving just a thumbnail on the message as a reminder and a link to Photos?)
Funniest thing is Apple is not even aware of these issues yet. Otherwise they would fix it very quickly. They know it only when thousands of users report it … I bet they don’t even look at reports on https://feedbackassistant.apple.com/
This is why I can't use Messages sync with iCloud. I don't need gigabytes of Messages on all my devices. If you could just sync a specific time period plus maybe pinned chats, that would be more useful.
Things work quite well without syncing though. I designated one Mac at home as my main device to keep all messages. On all other devices I will just delete them as necessary.
Some people, such as Max Weinbach, claim that 26.1 fixes the exaggerated power consumption problem from previous versions. We’ll see…