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Apple Seeds First Developer Betas of iOS 26, iPadOS 26, macOS Tahoe and More
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Installed it on my old 15 Pro Max, very choppy, animations are lagging, and not liking the look of the new Home Screen icons. My 16 running iOS 18 looks much nicer. I am betting they came up with this to make older phones seem laggy and drive upgrades.
Wish there was a way to make icons smaller on the iphone to be honest, they look huge for some reason
Beta 2 is normally released about 2 weeks after beta 1 due to previous history based on the last few years
the continued presence of this thing irks me, and i feel it should have had a toggle off since day 1. being forced to keep looking at something that serves no purpose is not cool. miss being able to jailbreak and get rid of things like this.
Thank goodness, this beta needs lots of work. When I swipe away from my Home Screen and back I can see the icons redraw individually. Also the gray stocks and calendar widget make me feel like I’ve lost my OLED display, nooooo.
Had that on my iPhone 15 pro max. It’s fine now though, guessing it was indexing as it also ran hot AF for a while after upgrading. My m4 iPad Pro was running fine after upgrade tho.
I think based on previous history beta 2 should come out week beginning 23rd June
Then beta 3 about the 7th July
It's literally the first developer beta, what an uneducated assumption to make. My iPad Mini 7 and MBA M4 are running the dev beta as well and are laggy...and yeah your fully tested iOS 18 will look much nicer.
First impressions on the Mac: Needs a lot of work. The overly-rounded corners on everything make the windows appear to eat an unnecessarily excessive amount of screen real estate. The sharp high-contrast beveled edges remind me of mid-'90s UIs on unix workstations or early web pages. In my opinion, it really is just a flatter, desaturated Aqua.
Update: Putting the icon of every pinned tab in Safari in its own circle button looks awful and doubles the space needed in all directions. For me it went from a nice compact row of buttons for sites and web tools I use frequently to another noisy row of icons taking up half the tab bar
Update: Putting the icon of every pinned tab in Safari in its own circle button looks awful and doubles the space needed in all directions. For me it went from a nice compact row of buttons for sites and web tools I use frequently to another noisy row of icons taking up half the tab bar
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Well having installed every dev beta on day one, this is the laggiest one I can remember. And obviously all of the new fluid like animations will consume additional resources that older phones may have a problem with (this is why newer OSes are not supported on the much older devices). Did you think it’s just magic making everything happen? 🤣
I have to say that on the iPhone I just don’t love it. I do enjoy this new look keyboard though.
iOS 26 is laggy as hell....Thanks EU!
(for everybody who doesn't get it: /s)
(for everybody who doesn't get it: /s)
Here you go!Who’s gonna show us the looks of the iOS 26 Books app? Much appreciated!
The App ist super slow, and searches for books show only your own books.
Mark Gurman just tweeted this is the buggiest beta 1 in 12 years. I only upgraded my old phone, phew. Still sucks, because I use both. To anyone who hasn’t upgraded, I’d wait for public beta at least.
Oh and message backgrounds are grim. They are all just horrible. They need to let go of the blue bubbles.
Danke schön for the quick response! Too bad the ‘Continue’ section still exists of way too small tiles and the recommendations are way too big. Time to email Craig! 🤣
One point I don’t like with the new multasking is if I’m playing a game, many times I would open up safari for guide or to look something up and that’s pretty much impossible now.
I don’t like that safari minimizes when I click back to the game, and I don’t like that you can’t just swipe from the side to bring safari back.
I don’t like that safari minimizes when I click back to the game, and I don’t like that you can’t just swipe from the side to bring safari back.