Apple Seeds Fifth Developer Betas of iOS 26 and iPadOS 26

[LutzRFrank]

… a week after the 4. beta ??? …

Must be a Typo. Was still bi-weekly. Maybe (Most probably) we are now on a weekly schedule…

 

[jackjason]

Came in at 2.69GB for 14Pro. After verifying and unpacking/unzipping/ready to install its only 995.9MB

does your 14 pro crashes on beta 4 when go to general -about ?

 

[jackjason]

Over 3.5GB on my 14 Pro, weird!

does your 14 pro crashes on beta 4 when go to general -about ?

 

[madge28]

how is the liquid glass on this update? i hope it goes back to the ”frosty ice” from beta 3

I don’t get why people like you can’t just turn on Reduce Transparency. It’s under Accessibility in Settings.

 

[Kar98]

Goodness… base iPhone 16

 

[Nick A]

Hopefully Dev Beta 5 and Public Beta 2 are much smoother. I'm a bit shocked how bad PB1 runs on my 15 Pro Max, very slow and laggy with random massive battery drain. I know it's a beta and some bugs are expected, but this is really bad.

 

[N0ughtsAndCr0sses]

another 12g on my 16p wow. please be lots of updates hehe
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If it’s that big, any beta comes with a lot of issues. 🤣🤣. WHICH HOPEFULLY WERE SQUASHED

 

[GigaSyntax]

The appearance of Liquid Glass looks more or less unchanged from beta 4

 

[CopyChief]

10.5GB for a beta 5 release... massive. IP15PM.

The last beta showed 12.something on my 15 Pro. I downloaded it over my cell connection because I was at work, and my usage did not show nearly that much... so it may be showing the total size of the OS download, not the actual update. Just a guess.

 

[one more]

Over 3.5GB on my 14 Pro, weird!

Extra size might be to do with AI stuff.

 

[jz0309]

My question too! Is this the usual sequence? PB two days after DB?

That my experience over the years, but, sometimes it's the day after and sometimes it's even more different...

 

[JohnC1959]

how is the liquid glass on this update? i hope it goes back to the ”frosty ice” from beta 3

I hope not. I hope it's like the liquid glass from Beta 1. For people like you - enable the setting in Accessibility options "Reduce transparency" and stop complaining.

It is interesting how many people are complaining about this feature, BUT often for the exact opposite reasons. I think the bottom line will be as you say, adjust the settings to tweak it to your liking.

 

[Astuces iOS]

I hope there is something good.

 

[madge28]

Hopefully Dev Beta 5 and Public Beta 2 are much smoother. I'm a bit shocked how bad PB1 runs on my 15 Pro Max, very slow and laggy with random massive battery drain. I know it's a beta and some bugs are expected, but this is really bad.

I think it's one of the best Public Beta 1's in the past decade actually

 

[JohnC1959]

I hope there is something good.

Thats's so much better than something bad.

 

[SnowPenguin]

Switched back to 18.6

Removing slide over / split screen has been a deal breaker for my use case!

I am afraid of the future because of this. I really like split screen.

 

[sleeptodream]

omg parallax is fixed on the home screen!!!! it’s been years 😭 thank you Apple

 

[GlamCheese666]

does your 14 pro crashes on beta 4 when go to general -about ?

No. I didnt have that issue

 

[samuraiQ]

Compared to beta4, the speed of the back button in the upper left corner of the screen has been increased in beta5!

 

[Macintosh101]

how is the liquid glass on this update? i hope it goes back to the ”frosty ice” from beta 3

On my iPad Pro its gone back to a much more frosted effect 👍🏼

 

[thiscatisfat]

I suppose we aren’t getting the beautiful Beta 1 control center back after all, looks like this is the final version since it’s the same for the third time now 😕

 

[Gazza1969]

So PB2 on Thursday?
I am enjoying PB1 on my iPad, so far love the changes

Most likely Wednesday.

 

[ThailandToo]

Liquid Glass is basically gone from the whole of iOS in this beta.

 

[Gazza1969]

I think it's one of the best Public Beta 1's in the past decade actually

Hopefully PB 2 will be released tomorrow. It’s usually 1 day later after the dev.

 

[AUGUSTU5]

Hopefully Dev Beta 5 and Public Beta 2 are much smoother. I'm a bit shocked how bad PB1 runs on my 15 Pro Max, very slow and laggy with random massive battery drain. I know it's a beta and some bugs are expected, but this is really bad.

Oh my gosh, the new software revisions with the super intense liquid ass shader pack are absolutely insane! My iPad Pro M1 was running still super laggy on the dev4 beta (downgraded back to iPadOS18). Even my MacBook M4Pro can’t handle the bugs and UI ******** in the last beta 4 without stuttering all the time. - If it weren’t for the WatchOS Upgrade, which I cant manually role back to watchOS18, I would totally downgrade my iPhone as well and update to the liquid ass revision 2 as soon as possible in iOS26.6 or iOS27 when they hopefully fix all the old buggy code by then.