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Apple Seeds Fourth Public Betas of iOS 26.1, iPadOS 26.1 and macOS Tahoe 26.1

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Apple today provided public beta testers with the fourth releases of upcoming iOS 26.1, iPadOS 26.1, macOS Tahoe 26.1, tvOS 26.1 and watchOS 26.1 updates for testing purposes. Apple seeded the betas to developers earlier today.

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After signing up for beta testing on Apple's beta site, public beta testers can download the updates using the Software Update section in the Settings app on each device.

iOS 26.1, iPadOS 26.1, and macOS Tahoe 26.1 expand Apple Intelligence to new languages, including Danish, Dutch, Norwegian, Portuguese (Portugal), Swedish, Turkish, Chinese (Traditional), and Vietnamese.

AirPods Live Translation is also available in Japanese, Korean, Italian, and Chinese (both Mandarin Traditional and Simplified) in iOS 26.

With the fourth beta, Apple added an option to reduce the transparency of Liquid Glass, and a toggle to turn off opening the camera with a swipe from the Lock Screen.

There are a few other minor changes to apps like Photos, Music, the Apple TV app, and Phone in iOS 26.1, with details available in our iOS 26.1 features guide.

Article Link: Apple Seeds Fourth Public Betas of iOS 26.1, iPadOS 26.1 and macOS Tahoe 26.1
 
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This is the first release of macOS for which I've never installed. I'll stick with Sequoia until the very end and hope that they learn from the error of their ways within a couple of OS releases.
 
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Now that they've taken care of the accidentally opening the camera nuisance, can they do something about being able to switch lock screens by accident. Half the time I take my phone out of my pocket I press the screen too long and end up in setup mode.
 
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Does beta 4 also add the option to reduce transparency to macOS? I've only seen it mentioned for iOS.

I know macOS already has a setting in accessibility for that, but it seems this new iOS toggle is literally just focussed on the glass, whereas reduce transparency in macOS has negative effects elsewhere in the OS and it not just targeting liquid ass.
 
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Anyone else having issues with the outgoing Mac mail server? I've not seen this issue in years but it seems to have spontaneously returned in the last beta and is still happening in this one. I get a pop up saying that my message cannot be sent because my account does not have a preferred outgoing mail server. Of course, iCloud is designated in the server settings for Mac mail. And clicking on the "Always Use This Server" button doesn't correct the issue next time. The worst part about this is that it happens is that it changes the Hide My e-mail address to my actual Mac.com e-mail address. If anyone has a workaround I'd bet grateful for any ideas.
 
Let’s hope they have an option in Mac OS to toggle back to a macOS Sequoia type of feel. Does not have to be exactly the same, but give an option.

I personally don’t mind LG, but…an option to turn off is good for those who want “new” things, but have the option to switch back until they get LG hammered out. I don’t want to have to wipe out my system anymore and go back to macOS Sequoia when there comes a bug that I cannot deal with.

“yes” I can duel boot or put a volume of the two OS’s on my Mac, but I don’t want to have to keep switching back and forth.

Hope .1 fixes the obvious bugs
 
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RLRabb said:
Double-tap on the e-mail "preview" in the left-hand pane.
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That leaves me with all these emails in a open windows. I'll have to find out how to close them, because there is no close button.
Why would they remove a much used functionality so you have to do several extras clickd to do something similar?
That minimize list button was not hurting anyone!
 
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I'm still waiting (almost four years now) for a fix that will restore my Apple Mail's ability to "remember" folders where I have saved emails. It works (mostly) in iOS but not on my Mac. This fell apart with an OS update a few years back. After numerous calls to support, and assurances someone was looking into it, no solution.
 
Reduce transparency/reduce motion (without tinted) now removes almost all of the outline. Icons on the home screen seem straight again.

Timer (sadly) needs the slide to stop. Slide to stop is fine for alarms, but timers don't have snoozes so why slide?

Safari with the address bar moved to the top is nice again in remove transparency+reduce motion+dark mode. Black bars that don't dissapear and resize when scrolling up or down. This also has the nice effect of stopping a lot of the flashing as one scrolls over light ads.

Much closer to un-glassed.
 
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I'm still waiting (almost four years now) for a fix that will restore my Apple Mail's ability to "remember" folders where I have saved emails. It works (mostly) in iOS but not on my Mac. This fell apart with an OS update a few years back. After numerous calls to support, and assurances someone was looking into it, no solution.
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This is my fathers NUMBER ONE gripe call to "My Son’s 24HR Helpdesk" when he can’t find those specific emails he had sorted into varying degrees of "important" folders.

Luckily Son now has equal/separate rights when logging into Fathers iCloud even if he arbitrarily changes his login password because he can’t remember if it was "password00" or "PassWord00"…
 
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Is it more stable than 26.0.1?
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I'm still on Sequoia on main Mac but I've been on 26 beta VM's since the 1st dev beta released (still on 26.1 beta 3 though). I've not really had any stability issues with 26.x as a whole. If you can be more specific about where you're seeing stability issues I'd be happy to check a given scenario for you, but imo, 26.x has been pretty reliable if you can stomach LG on macOS. I'm not a fan so I've avoided the permanent jump. That said, not all features are available in VM's, so it's entirely possible that I've not encountered stability issues by virtue not being able to access features you're finding unstable.

**EDIT** You also didn't specify which OS, so apologies if you meant anything other than macOS

FWIW, I have seen significant improvements to the LG elements in macOS 26.1 in addition to other UI improvements (such as a much requested larger 'applications' window when using the new spotlight replacement for Launchpad etc). Imo macOS 26.1 is shaping up to be the release that 26.0 should have been. There's no love for 'large corner radius' haters though.


loby said:
Let’s hope they have an option in Mac OS to toggle back to a macOS Sequoia type of feel. Does not have to be exactly the same, but give an option.

I personally don’t mind LG, but…an option to turn off is good for those who want “new” things, but have the option to switch back until they get LG hammered out. I don’t want to have to wipe out my system anymore and go back to macOS Sequoia when there comes a bug that I cannot deal with.

“yes” I can duel boot or put a volume of the two OS’s on my Mac, but I don’t want to have to keep switching back and forth.

Hope .1 fixes the obvious bugs
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Although you didn't respond directly to me, I'm inferring from this post that the answer to my earlier question is a hard NO 🙁.
 
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Fingers crossed for a touch screen stability fix in iPad OS.

On my M4 iPad Pro, while playing mobile games; the touch screen controls keep going out randomly for brief periods of time (so your vehicle stops driving, your character stops moving, you don't fire, turn, ... ).

Sometimes you can see the screen flashing/re-rendering.

Never happened before iPad OS 26, and have read reports from others struggling with the same issue.
 
PederOo said:
That leaves me with all these emails in a open windows. I'll have to find out how to close them, because there is no close button.
Why would they remove a much used functionality so you have to do several extras clickd to do something similar?
That minimize list button was not hurting anyone!
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The red “traffic light” button on each window should close that window.
 
Still on iOS 18, been waiting for 26.1 before jumping over. Is this beta stable?
 
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Six Mac Abs said:
I'm still on Sequoia on main Mac but I've been on 26 beta VM's since the 1st dev beta released (still on 26.1 beta 3 though). I've not really had any stability issues with 26.x as a whole. If you can be more specific about where you're seeing stability issues I'd be happy to check a given scenario for you, but imo, 26.x has been pretty reliable if you can stomach LG on macOS. I'm not a fan so I've avoided the permanent jump. That said, not all features are available in VM's, so it's entirely possible that I've not encountered stability issues by virtue not being able to access features you're finding unstable.

**EDIT** You also didn't specify which OS, so apologies if you meant anything other than macOS

FWIW, I have seen significant improvements to the LG elements in macOS 26.1 in addition to other UI improvements (such as a much requested larger 'applications' window when using the new spotlight replacement for Launchpad etc). Imo macOS 26.1 is shaping up to be the release that 26.0 should have been. There's no love for 'large corner radius' haters though.




Although you didn't respond directly to me, I'm inferring from this post that the answer to my earlier question is a hard NO 🙁.
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I was getting graphical stuttering when in spotlight and various other graphic issues with MacBook Pro 2021. Final Cut Pro was slowing some rendering and using little CPU. MacOS Sequpia seems to render faster and a little smoother.
 
RLRabb said:
The red “traffic light” button on each window should close that window.
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I do not see a close button on my iPad. That was what I would expect of ipadOS would become more like macOS.
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I did learn how I can reduce image file size in Preview.
 
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