Everything New in iOS 26.4 Beta 1

[Unregistered 4U]

If the ambient music widget doesn’t include “Wii Shop Style” they just need to go RIGHT back to the coding kitchen and keep cooking until it’s done.

 

[froot1988]

The downloading faces to watch manually could be interesting and be step 1/3838 to finally get custom watch faces. But probably not

 

[Unregistered 4U]

.........that could have been added to any previous release up to this point 🥱😴

That’s what I’m thinking. These could have easily been in release 2.0, before they added Copy and Paste in 3.0!

 

[klasma]

But either way, it seems like Siri is getting dumber by the minute. Lately, when an alarm on a homepod in another room goes off and I tell Siri (in German) via another homepod to "Stop the alarm in x" it responds with something like "Should I stop the Alarm in room x?". Me "Yes". Siri "That's what I thought" (not stopping the alarm). Everytime. And the cherry on top of the heap is that this used to work a year ago.

Still works for me (I do this quite often), but I'm on i(Pad)OS 18.

 

[patseguin]

Siri went back to old style. The edge glow effect went away.

 

[citysnaps]

So many bizarre responses to a point update that doesn’t contain a Siri change that Apple never promised. Some griftin’ rando makes it up as he goes along and people treat it as official changelog 🤦‍♂️

New Siri will arrive when it’s ready, these are nice tweaks.

It's a tradition here to immediately slam anything announced by Apple. Which goes back back many years.

 

[macrlz9]

This new toggle is unclear to me. Anyone know what “Allow your trusted Apple devices to provide search results to icloud.com” means?

iCloud Web Settings​

In the iCloud section of the Settings app, there's now an "iCloud.com" option if you scroll all the way to the bottom of the interface. It replaces the simple "Access ‌iCloud‌ Data on the Web" toggle that was previously available.

The setting includes a new "Allow Search" toggle that lets trusted Apple devices provide search results to iCloud.com.

 

[Reeneman]

I have a phone you might be interested in...

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Also no endless discussions about updates and battery life with this phone.
Highly recommended!

 

[Leoxo]

For some reason the Siri is old style

 

[LightProtector]

This will be a solid update with the new Siri, but I'm personally waiting for iOS 27. I really want those stability updates.

 

[Charlesrfinal]

At this point they should polish Siri 1.0 a bit. Then use their google partnership to leverage Gemini for intelligence to the degree they can with privacy and leave it at that.

 

[klasma]

For some reason the Siri is old style View attachment 2605602

That's because it's downloading new Apple Intelligence data. Once the download finishes, it reverts to the newer style again.

 

[riverguide]

It's a tradition here to immediately slam anything announced by Apple. Which goes back back many years.

One could get that impression, yes. But this will not be the case when Apple announces the retirement of its current CEO.

 

[BWhaler]

I don't understand all the hate. 26.4 looks like a great update and fills in some features Apple has fallen behind on.

I understand the community is disappointed in Apple of late. Yes, the first-party apps have all fallen way behind, the world has moved to AI, and Apple's contribution looks like, for the first time in the company's history, that they don't get it and are catching up. And God help us, the Liquid Glass and basic, basic, basic, UI sloppiness. But 26.4 shows hope--along with recent hiring--that Apple is going to take software outside of what builds their ecosystem and subscriptions seriously.

I, for one, was happy to read this article.

 

[Rradcircless]

I hope that if Freeform's aggressively janky typing experience is fixed in the next update that it won't be a paid feature.

 

[silvertech]

Siri is never coming is it?

 

[citysnaps]

One could get that I impression, yes. But this will not be the case when Apple announces the retirement of its current CEO.

No, it will go on and on. Slamming Apple goes way back. It helps people feel good experiencing that little burst of power.

 

[DocMultimedia]

Hey Siri, what's new?

Not me.

 

[omarjanak]

Exactly how I feel about this update.

 

[SlickMacWillie]

Working as intended. Requires explicit user action (manual tap) to ensure accountability and prevent false positives. Not a bug.

"There is a new bug in Carplay. I was driving home and got a text message, Carplay read it to me... and then 15 seconds later it read it to me again... then 15 seconds later.... it kept on doing it until i picked up the phone and clicked on the message to mark it read.

Very annoying bug."

 

[SlickMacWillie]

There is a new bug in Carplay. I was driving home and got a text message, Carplay read it to me... and then 15 seconds later it read it to me again... then 15 seconds later.... it kept on doing it until i picked up the phone and clicked on the message to mark it read.

Very annoying bug.

Working as intended. Requires explicit user action (manual tap) to ensure accountability and prevent false positives. Not a bug.

 

[whelmedjedi]

Downloading is over for my siri. Nothing changed. Its still dumb. What a shame.

 

[klasma]

Downloading is over for my siri. Nothing changed. Its still dumb. What a shame.

It won’t ever not be dumb on-device with just 8-12 GB.

 

[Kar98]

you can leave Apple if you aren’t happy

I’m working on it.

 

[uniquestevejobs]

Interesting timing. So maybe we will see beta 2 on march second with the new Siri update before the experience event, so they can all try it and report about it. If this will come true this will be an genius marketing campaign