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

[MacRumors]

Apple today provided public beta testers with the second 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 yesterday.

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 26.1. The second beta adds a slide to stop feature to alarms, tweaks the design of the Settings app, and more, with details available in our features list.

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

Article Link: Apple Seeds Second Public Betas of iOS 26.1, iPadOS 26.1 and macOS Tahoe 26.1

 

[chloe.app]

"Quick, post something about wanting Liquid Glass removed!"

 

[lazyrighteye]

Hopefully there’s a way to remove Liquid Gla… oh wait.

 

[Infuspeur]

Turn on Contrast and/or Reduce Transparency and/or Reduce Motion, in Accessibility Settings. Find what suits you if you like the iOS 18 look more than the iOS 26 one. I personally use them less and less, to ease my old brain into the new thing.

 

[jchurchill]

"Quick, post something about wanting Liquid Glass removed!"

Literally the first thing that popped into my head.

 

[mabaker]

Did they remove Liquid Gwass by any chance? 🧛‍♂️🧌🧌🧌🧌🧌🧌🧌

 

[Love-hate 🍏 relationship]

What's the version number ? Any difference between this and dev beta 2?

 

[Artsketch]

Don't they have large monitors at Apple, with that tiny volume slider in the top right corner in macOS Tahoe? Let's hope that gets fixed.

 

[dorsal]

 

[bLackjackj]

Has the app icon refresh been fixed. Greyed out icons continues having to refresh like the phone is out of memory.

 

[DJM1740]

Holy smokes, 20+ GB update to go from 26.0.1 to 26.1B2??

 

[apr]

Has the app icon refresh been fixed. Greyed out icons continues having to refresh like the phone is out of memory.

I also interested in a possible fix the same problem on macOS. In the initial 26.0 release icons periodically refresh/flickers everywhere in the os.
This was quite normal in the old days on windows (pre win10), strange to see similar on a Mac.