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Apple Seeds First Betas of iOS 26.1, iPadOS 26.1, and macOS Tahoe 26.1

Today I experienced my first problems after upgrading to Tahoe with Firefox..After booting nearly every site failed to load properly. I found problems with Ebay along with other sites. After deleting the AdBlock extension I was able to browse, but with Ebay I have to use a private window to add listings. Its obvious Firefox needs to release a new version as to extension developers
 
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Corpuscle said:
Nice attitude. NOT! Sounds so childish.

And how do you know these issues aren't related to the bugs in the program and not with Apple software/hardware?
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Because I have debugged it for 3 nights and ruled out every single thing that can possibly cause it. It's a bug in the windowserver process. If you're a developer yourself and interested in the technical details, i can give a run down, but truthfully I have no desire to
 
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Lounge vibes 05 said:
I get that it’s polarizing, but, they are not going to do that.
Like it or not, liquid glass is their new design aesthetic.
You couldn’t just disable aqua, or just turn off Skeumorphism, or reverse the flatness of iOS 7.
Not sure why anyone would think liquid Glass is any different.
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There was a time when I would have agreed with you. But that was the old Apple, where they were right, even when they weren't. This was Jobs and Ive's Apple, not Cook's. Cook, faced with potential losses, pivots. Series 0 didn't even make it as a fashion product (though now it sells a phone strap for 1/3 the price of a Watch SE). Photos.app and the lack of enthusiasm for Safari were also a sudden about-face, just to avoid hurting profits—because bad users make even worse shareholders. If our dissatisfaction is reflected in spreadsheets, some kind of undoing of this mess is certain.
 
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scouser75 said:
I second this. And it’s not just this forum. It happens randomly on other forums too. But hoping this is fixed in this update.
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It seems to have stopped on this forum at least for me now… I haven’t updated anything.

Edit: spoke too soon. It’s back to floating again. How odd.
 
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mikamika83 said:
> re: i’m a dev/test specialist.

Let me give you a specific problem to test, mr. test specialist.

Step 1: Open VSCode
Step 2: Open Activity Monitor
Step 3: Make sure the `GPU %` column is visible, add it to columns if hidden.
Step 4: Sort by `GPU %`, make sure the process `WindowServer` is visible (should be first in the list)
Step 5: Scroll the VSCode editor, observe the GPU% go to 50%+ for the `WindowServer` process

Now, mr dev/test specialist, try working a full day with scrolling in vscode and observe your laptop get to space heater temperatures, fans kicking in.

M1 Max btw
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Use Emacs instead. Problem solved.
 
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Wieslawo said:
There was a time when I would have agreed with you. But that was the old Apple, where they were right, even when they weren't. This was Jobs and Ive's Apple, not Cook's. Cook, faced with potential losses, pivots. Series 0 didn't even make it as a fashion product (though now it sells a phone strap for 1/3 the price of a Watch SE). Photos.app and the lack of enthusiasm for Safari were also a sudden about-face, just to avoid hurting profits—because bad users make even worse shareholders. If our dissatisfaction is reflected in spreadsheets, some kind of undoing of this mess is certain.
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Steve’s apple reversed plenty of decisions as well, iMovie 2008 being a particularly memorable one.
Buttons on the iPod shuffle being another.
 
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Messages certainly has bugs and it's all due to SwiftUI and the Swift language, in general. Don't bother to modernize ObjC along side C23 and modern Fortran which would allow a much simpler and more OOA/OOD AI Suite for Apple to develop. That would require admitting Swift should have stayed as a research language.
 
This beta on my 13 pro boots significantly faster than the final release of 26 on my 16 Pro 🤔
 
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Releases:
iOS 26.1 beta (23B5044l)
iPadOS 26.1 beta (23B5044l)
macOS 26.1 beta (25B5042k)
tvOS 26.1 beta (23J5543j)
visionOS 26.1 beta (23N5013j)
watchOS 26.1 beta (23S5002i)

Source
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sonoma/sequoia new builds too:

macOS 14.8.1 rc 1 (23J111)
macOS 15.7.1 rc 1 (24G309)
 
Rexel69 said:
The notion that the beta is a last-minute trial run is a significant misunderstanding. It’s a critical phase of ongoing development, not a polished product for everyday users.
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Exactly! You're absolutely right.
The beta is there to test a program or system "in the wild" and find all the problems that can't be found in the lab and on internal devices.

And that's exactly why it's absurd for Apple to release a new beta every two weeks.
I've done the math: it takes a week just to identify bugs and report them to Apple.

And you can see this very clearly in the "bug fixes" in iOS 26.1: From the internal test series to the RC candidate, there was no time to adapt the dial buttons in the phone to the new design. Or to implement the missing usability of the new menu. A criticism from the first day of the keynote.

By way of comparison, simple games and programs often take a year to reach the beta stage. A well-known router manufacturer takes three months for each new version, just to be on the safe side and ensure that nothing goes wrong.

On the other side, Apple releases four different operating systems after just three months of "beta" testing. And history teaches us that we can be glad that half of all Macs didn't crash. Apple has already managed that. Because they don't take beta testing as seriously as you explained.
 
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Reading all the things here, it feels better staying with macOS Sequoia and iOS 18 for a while longer. While I know that my M4 pro is powerfull, not every application clearly isn't ready yet for the new OS. And my 13 mini and iPad Pro, well... it's running smoothly on iOS 18.

When I have some time left, I might experiment with my my old MacPro 2008.
Curious if it can handle the new glass 😁

Sometimes I want to power up my old PowerMac G4 again and look at the Aqua UI from MacOS X 10.1 - 10.4.
Those were the days...

 
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Has anyone issues with Bluesky on 26.1? Videos are crashing on iOS and iPadOS every 10 seconds and only a complete restart fixes it for a few seconds.
 
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