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Apple Seeds First iOS 26.6 and iPadOS 26.6 Betas to Developers

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Apple today seeded the first betas of upcoming iOS 26.6 and iPadOS 26.6 updates to developers for testing purposes, with the software coming two weeks after Apple released iOS 26.5 and iPadOS 26.5.

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Registered developers can download the betas from the Settings app on the iPhone or iPad by going to the General section and selecting Software Update.

With the debut of iOS 27 approaching in early June, Apple is wrapping up work on iOS 26. We are not expecting any major new features in the iOS 26.6 update, and it will likely focus on bug fixes and performance improvements.

Article Link: Apple Seeds First iOS 26.6 and iPadOS 26.6 Betas to Developers
 
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Apple today seeded the first betas of upcoming iOS 26.6 and iPadOS 26.6 updates to developers for testing purposes, with the software coming two weeks after Apple released iOS 26.5 and iPadOS 26.5.

iOS-26.6-Glass-Feature.jpg

Registered developers can download the betas from the Settings app on the iPhone or iPad by going to the General section and selecting Software Update.

With the debut of iOS 27 approaching in early June, Apple is wrapping up work on iOS 26. We are not expecting any major new features in the iOS 26.6 update, and it will likely focus on bug fixes and performance improvements.

Article Link: Apple Seeds First iOS 26.6 and iPadOS 26.6 Betas to Developers
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Holy crap.

I wasn’t expecting this!

In a way I’m glad though because any opportunity to further refine iOS 26 for the devices that will get left behind going forward is a plus.

That aside, another boring update, haha.
 
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Just installed on my iPhone Air, and screen was super dim, as if asleep. Tried raising brightness, making sure auto-brightness is off, and restarting. Not happy here. Then suddenly, 5-10 minutes later, it became normal.
 
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Just installed on my iPhone Air, and screen was super dim, as if asleep. Tried raising brightness, making sure auto-brightness is off, and restarting. Not happy here. Then suddenly, 5-10 minutes later, it became normal.
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My phone has done this since I first installed ios26. I power on the screen and it's super dim. turn off the screen and back on and it goes full brightness. Silly bug has never been fixed and I reported it 🙁
 
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i would really love some incredibly basic usability features in a future IOS since we are so many generations deep:
  • a real manual EQ that works in any app and also remembers individual settings for each audio output device.
  • an option to have a button to skip music tracks directly in the map app, rather than having to fumble around
  • swipe left or right to skip tracks on the lock screen rather than have to carefully press the small buttons
  • the ability to have a shortcut to turn off the screen immediately, like you can with a back tap, instead of only going to the lock screen first, or even better a swipe down directly from the upper left corner to lock the screen - instead of having to pick it up to hit the side button when it is on a table or docked
  • a mono toggle for control center (right now i have to use a shortcut, but it will not show the current state by highlighting the button like a real one would)
  • a real firewall so i can actually block ip addresses that the app privacy report generates. right now it will show you random IPs or URLs but you can't do anything about it other than delete the app
  • ability to restrict app access to wifi like you can with mobile data
  • the ability to select whatever charge level you wish or just pass through charging (please let the older devices do this too. There was a jailbreak tweak that allowed this going back to at least the iphone 5, so you don't need special hardware or AI...LOL. It's built in to the battery charge controller since forever.) This is useful particularly when on a wireless car charger and doing navigation - i don't need it to always charge and get incredibly hot, i just want it to pass through the power it needs from the charger.
 
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i would really love some incredibly basic usability features in a future IOS since we are so many generations deep:
  • a real manual EQ that works in any app and also remembers individual settings for each audio output device.
  • an option to have a button to skip music tracks directly in the map app, rather than having to fumble around
  • swipe left or right to skip tracks on the lock screen rather than have to carefully press the small buttons
  • the ability to have a shortcut to turn off the screen immediately, like you can with a back tap, instead of only going to the lock screen first, or even better a swipe down directly from the upper left corner to lock the screen - instead of having to pick it up to hit the side button when it is on a table or docked
  • a mono toggle for control center (right now i have to use a shortcut, but it will not show the current state by highlighting the button like a real one would)
  • a real firewall so i can actually block ip addresses that the app privacy report generates. right now it will show you random IPs or URLs but you can't do anything about it other than delete the app
  • ability to restrict app access to wifi like you can with mobile data
  • the ability to select whatever charge level you wish or just pass through charging (please let the older devices do this too. There was a jailbreak tweak that allowed this going back to at least the iphone 5, so you don't need special hardware or AI...LOL. It's built in to the battery charge controller since forever.) This is useful particularly when on a wireless car charger and doing navigation - i don't need it to always charge and get incredibly hot, i just want it to pass through the power it needs from the charger.
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All great suggestions. E-mail them to Craig so there's actually a non-zero chance they're implemented.
 
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