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Apple Seeds Third Developer Betas of iOS 26 and iPadOS 26
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Liquid is now frost in Beta 3. Lol. WTF. How things have shifted.
I think it's a bit too less now. As you say, you can hardly recognize anything of the „Liquid Glass“ in many places
That's an excellent game plan.
iPad 26 Beta 2 (and now 3) has been working fantastically on my iPad as a daily driver. Hardly any issues
iOS 26 Beta 2 worked well on my iPhone with a small handful of connection issues in the vehicle and with Airplay. I am anticipating they have been fixed in this new Beta 3.
However, Tahoe Beta 2 was a mess. I had to remove it. The operating system was very stable, but too many of the apps I use were not compatible yet.
Thats unfortunate, there should be a setting that allows you to customize the level of transparency and liquid effects.
I've found beta 2 on iPad OS to be extremely janky just using safari. dragging a safari window around sometimes bugs out. Websites with forms never really work well. Hoping beta 3 is better .
It's difficult to tell if you're joking or asking sincerely.
It's been widely reported that going forward, all Apple OSes will bear the name of the (upcoming) year. This way, it's no longer necessary to remember different OS numbers for iOS, iPadOS, macOS, tvOS, watchOS, visionOS, etc. From now on, they will all be unified.
My 15PM continues to be stuttery if I upgrade or restore from iCloud a backup of 18.5. If I reset iOS 26, no restore, no more stutter.My 16 Pro is currently ironing my desk after the update. Will give it some time to do whatever optimizations it needs to do. Then I might turn it off for a bit to give it a chance to cool down. Phone was still as stuttery as it has been since beta 1.I'm guessing I may just need to reset the phone when the final comes out. Just need to make sure my 2 factor stuff exists on another device before I go through that. This has been the worse beta for me by far. Not sure why my latest gen iPhone is having such trouble. My iPad Pro 13" has zero stutter and flies along...no battery drain there at all.
No way I’m setting my phone up all over again.
Yeah. I don’t like it. I think should be able to toggle whether we want glass or what’s now just white instead of glass at all on iOS. On iPadOS it’s still glass like.
It's been there..
It lowers loud sounds in movies or music so you don’t wake anyone up
Perfect for watching or listening at night while keeping voices clear
ok cool must have missed it before.. it would be nice if had description next to option tho lol
Maybe because all Apple did was change UI elements and it's basically just iOS 18 on the back end.
With a phone app, new windowing UI, new messages app, new browser.....and on and on
Honest to god, I thought I was going into a suicide mission installing a dev beta on a 4 year old phone and cannot believe how fast and polished it feels.
It’s probably the “Safari is snappier” effect where a new install feels fast compared to the previous version that had months of cache baggage but I’m happy keeping iOS 26. Cannot believe it got all the Liquid Glass effects.
I’ve just installed DB3 (my first iOS 26 beta) and this makes it bearable. It does seem to go a bit overboard though. They keyboard here is unnecessarily bright, making it hard to distinguish keys…
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