Just wait for the September official release. It will still be buggy so you'll kinda have a beta experience
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Apple Releases Second iOS 26 and iPadOS 26 Public Betas
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PB1 is fine on my iPhone 16 outside of a few stutters here and there., i imagine PB2 is even better.
See it's comments like this that make me really want to install it on my 16PM daily driver.
It's already noticeably better, after just a few minutes! I had stuttering occur in a number of apps, and it's is much much better!
If you do do the public beta, if it's not for you or you have some critical app that isn't updated yet you can always roll it back.
It works bad on my 14pro. Do not recommend it to anyone. It's very far from being smooth in animations, they're very laggy, there are micro freezes each time when I switch between apps. Locking and unlocking work with delays. I found 5 bugs only in the address bar of safari.
Even final code has bugs, not as many. The question is, what's your bug tolerance?
Agreed. Haven’t had any 3rd party apps with any major issues. The one item I’ve noticed is spring reloading when using apps from the App Library page.
The question is, how much lagginess and battery loss am I comfortable with. Hard to know until I try it. Some here are saying it's horrible and they switched back, and others are saying it's fine.
Update: I'm doing it! Downloading now.
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Safari address/tab bar is still wonky on my iPad Pro. Should it render like the top or the bottom? I’m assuming the top as that looks much better. Both websites I was on at the time have a white background.
This runs so much better on the 15 Pro. Didn't have any big issues with previous beta but performance was a little laggy, feels so much smoother.
Apple must be pretty confident in this release; they sent me an email titled "Try out the new public betas" announcing this release, just about twenty minutes ago.
Keep us posted with your experience. I had B2 running on my IPP M1 12.9" and ended up downgrading again.
ios 26 and still siri wont start my wifi dishwasher or wifi ac unit
I first installed public beta 1 on my 12 Pro Max which is my main phone, the first day was kind of sluggish & a battery hog, but after that 0 issues and everything seemed perfectly normal, in all honesty was quite impressed being my phone is 5 years old now. Had mixed feelings on the UI but came to like it after a few days, I'm assuming this build will further improve on smoothness & battery usage. My only complaint is Safari still used to a permanent search bar and it seems unnecessary steps to get to tabs, other than that been a really good experience. Installing beta 2 update right now 👍
Ran PB1 on my iPadPro M1 since release, no issues, updated my iPhone 15 Pro/iPad Mini 2 days ago. the biggest jar was glass on my normally dark theme phone.
Update to PB2 in iPadPro, iPad Mini, then iPhone
Wont Test on my MBP as I use it to make money!
Lol I literally got the same email too😂 I just might test it out
So far so good. Not noticing any lag or sluggishness. I expect it to heat up and battery drain the first day or so as everything indexes.
PB2 is much more smooth and polished than PB1 on iPad Air 5. And PB1 was good enough to use without any show-stopping problems. It feels like we are already at the finishing stage.
PB’s have been stable for a long time. I always run them on primary. Small hiccups, but nothing major for me.