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Everything New in iOS 26.2 Beta 2

A Couple of small things
- Make the slider to turn off the alarm optional.
- Ability to just turn of Liquid Glass and not mess with multiple setting to almost turn it off.
- realize there are some of us with 13 mini phones and some of the auto fill is nearly off the screen.
- Fix a bug in CarPlay that causes the message highlighted to keep bouncing around.
 
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We are in 2025, soon 2026. Phones are a more important part of people’s lives than ever before, more important than desktops.

Apple needs to have a MUCH more finished firmware for their devices than they are currently providing. I don’t care if they skip a whole year of major updates, but 26 shouldn’t even have been released TODAY. All these small things should have been ironed out in April already. 90% of users should have been on 18 today.

And yes, we’re all nerds and we should beta test until our capacitors burn up in reentry. But iOS 26 isn’t finished yet….and neither is Apple Intelligence.

I actually expect more from Apple than this.
 
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Johnny907 said:
Hope CarPlay is more stable. It's been wonky in the current beta, stuttering during voice response and pausing before each prompt like Siri is distracted or drunk.
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It stopped working for me after updating to 26.2. Won’t connect at all. No matter what, removed car, connected cables, disconnected, restarted phone, the lot. I’m using iPhone 17 Pro Max.
 
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Good to see that more Apple apps are supporting Liquid Glass. Sorting of games by size can be useful.
 
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tominco said:
A Couple of small things
- Make the slider to turn off the alarm optional.
- Ability to just turn of Liquid Glass and not mess with multiple setting to almost turn it off.
- realize there are some of us with 13 mini phones and some of the auto fill is nearly off the screen.
- Fix a bug in CarPlay that causes the message highlighted to keep bouncing around.
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Your first request is already there and was also covered in a MacRumors article.
 
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federico0212 said:
As someone who uses the leveler a lot for years now, not once have i used it lying on its back. I always stand the phone sides, it’s inherently the most practical way
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When the power button was still on the top, the right edge could be used for that, but after that not really anymore.
 
MacUserFella said:
Liquid Glass Leveler seems cool, if only iPhones didn’t have a massive camera bump to prevent it from laying down perfectly flat
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Camera on the back, buttons on the longer edges of the frame…
The reason I don’t ever use the app. Not because I don’t trust it enough, because I don’t know how reliable it is, I just can’t really use it unfortunately.
 
I’m sad about that measure app. The previous design was truly a piece of art. Super honest clear design, using a completely new paradigm, where form followed function entirely. Adding liquid glass to that makes no sense. It’s unnecessary decoration. Decoration is almost never good design.
 
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Parowdy said:
Camera on the back, buttons on the longer edges of the frame…
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There is always the base, so the phone is in portrait. At 1 degree resolution the shorter distance isn't a real killer.

To do it flat with the camera bump, (or the long edge too), you can place the phone on a reference surface that you know is level and tap the number, which zeros the phone including the bump. As long as you roughly keep the same direction, level then shows the difference to the reference - including the bump being taken into account.

Also handy if you want a bunch of stuff at x degrees. Set up one, zero the phone, adjust your second object to the zero (reference) position.

A second tap of the number returns to non-reference mode.
 
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Why don't Apple just stop adding new features, and iron out all the existing bugs. Make it super smoother, reliable and capable - then, when there are literally near zero issues with IOS, start to slowly add new features.

Personally, I think there's too many feature on an iPhone already anyway. There must be dozens of features that no one ever uses. Do you think IOS is bloated?
 
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SebCohen said:
We are in 2025, soon 2026. Phones are a more important part of people’s lives than ever before, more important than desktops.

Apple needs to have a MUCH more finished firmware for their devices than they are currently providing. I don’t care if they skip a whole year of major updates, but 26 shouldn’t even have been released TODAY. All these small things should have been ironed out in April already. 90% of users should have been on 18 today.

And yes, we’re all nerds and we should beta test until our capacitors burn up in reentry. But iOS 26 isn’t finished yet….and neither is Apple Intelligence.

I actually expect more from Apple than this.
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Steve Jobs did too. Yes…I know he’s dead. But he would have expected…even demanded more then…and even from the grave.
 
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Love the Liquid Glass menu animation but that clear level bubble feels like a usability nightmare - I use it a lot and seeing it from a distance will make seeing the bubbles a lot harder.
 
Wx_Man said:
I’ll see your old man card and raise you with my iPhone 15 Pro with iOS 18.7.2. I’m serious. 26 will not see the light of day on my iPhone or Mac until Apple stops signing iOS 18.x.x and MacOS 15.x.x
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Haha ok sir, I'm all in. iPhone, ATV, MBP, Mac Mini, iPad, AWU2 - all living in the past currently!

Its crazy as this is the first time I've held out this long - some improvements have me curious, but the trade offs I'm seeing just isn't worth it.
 
SebCohen said:
We are in 2025, soon 2026. Phones are a more important part of people’s lives than ever before, more important than desktops.

Apple needs to have a MUCH more finished firmware for their devices than they are currently providing. I don’t care if they skip a whole year of major updates, but 26 shouldn’t even have been released TODAY. All these small things should have been ironed out in April already. 90% of users should have been on 18 today.

And yes, we’re all nerds and we should beta test until our capacitors burn up in reentry. But iOS 26 isn’t finished yet….and neither is Apple Intelligence.

I actually expect more from Apple than this.
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You don’t care if they’d skip a year of updates, but the rest of the industry would. And the most important of them all? Wall Street and Shareholders.
 
MacRumors said:


Apple today provided developers with the second beta of iOS 26.2, which adds a few new features worth knowing about.

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Measure App

Apple's Measure app now features a Liquid Glass design for the level, with two Liquid Glass bubbles instead of white circles.

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Innovation!

MacRumors said:
Menu Animations

For pop-out menus that expand from a corner button, there's a quicker, bouncier animation that looks like the animation that Apple showed off at WWDC.

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It takes almost a second for that simple menu to appear. In which world is that "quick"? That's just a counterproductive visual gimmick.
 
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