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General iPadOS 27 discussion

Benito said:
My M5 iPad Pro is still indexing after updating to iPadOS 27 Beta 1 6 hours after the keynote. I say that to suggest that the battery life I'm seeing isn't still as good as it might be on the first developer beta when indexing is over. That being said, I had the worst battery life on iPadOS 26 since about 26.3 or .4. I am hopeful that 27 beta 1 will be better than 25.5. I'll keep my fingers crossed. I haven't seen too many bugs, but I have noticed that the new Siri app, isn't reliable. Sometimes it seems to lock and even killing the app doesn't unlock it. The new Siri is super impressive to me though, so much better than the old Siri. I'm amazed at what it can do.
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Just curious, when you said battery life on 26.5 was poor, how poor was it? How are you using it? How high is brightness? How many hours of SOT were you getting?
 
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FeliApple said:
Just curious, when you said battery life on 26.5 was poor, how poor was it? How are you using it? How high is brightness? How many hours of SOT were you getting?
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I always have brightness quite low, say 20-30% of maximum. I was using 10% battery per half hour just browsing the web and looking at emails.
 
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Benito said:
I always have brightness quite low, say 20-30% of maximum. I was using 10% battery per half hour just browsing the web and looking at emails.
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Wow. That is a first for me. I’ve never heard the original iOS version on an iPad with 20-30% brightness just web browsing which is quite efficient give 5 hours of battery life. Very surprising.
 
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FeliApple said:
Wow. That is a first for me. I’ve never heard the original iOS version on an iPad with 20-30% brightness just web browsing which is quite efficient give 5 hours of battery life. Very surprising.
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Yes it was exceedingly frustrating how poor the battery life became with iPadOS 26.3 and onwards. I tried lots of reboots including hard reboots. I was going to wipe it and do a clean install, but then decided to try 27 beta instead. I’m hoping it will solve things, but my ipad is still indexing so I don’t want to really take it off charging until it is done to test.
 
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Benito said:
Yes it was exceedingly frustrating how poor the battery life became with iPadOS 26.3 and onwards. I tried lots of reboots including hard reboots. I was going to wipe it and do a clean install, but then decided to try 27 beta instead. I’m hoping it will solve things, but my ipad is still indexing so I don’t want to really take it off charging until it is done to test.
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I’m inclined to believe that there was some specific issue with your installation.

Original iOS versions typically have amazing battery life, that’s definitely not normal, I wouldn’t even blame iPadOS 26, it’s the original version. There has to be something else.
 
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FeliApple said:
I’m inclined to believe that there was some specific issue with your installation.

Original iOS versions typically have amazing battery life, that’s definitely not normal, I wouldn’t even blame iPadOS 26, it’s the original version. There has to be something else.
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It is hard to understand what that issue might be though. Anyhow, I’m on 27 beta 1 now and I’ll cross my fingers and hope for the best with this fresh install.
 
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I didn’t expect much, because based on rumors it was going to be a release focused on stability (which is good).

However, I’m disappointed that last year’s multitasking mess hasn’t been fixed. I still like the iPad, but since iPadOS 26, it’s a less capable tool for me.

These last years’ releases look like those bad Mac years, when they focused on flashy things that resulted in a good demo, instead of good UX, specially for “power users”.
 
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AlexESP said:
I didn’t expect much, because based on rumors it was going to be a release focused on stability (which is good).

However, I’m disappointed that last year’s multitasking mess hasn’t been fixed. I still like the iPad, but since iPadOS 26, it’s a less capable tool for me.

These last years’ releases look like those bad Mac years, when they focused on flashy things that resulted in a good demo, instead of good UX, specially for “power users”.
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Oh, I was just checking in to see if they hade fixed multitasking yet on 27. I'll keep myself on 18 for a little while longer.
 
AlexESP said:
I didn’t expect much, because based on rumors it was going to be a release focused on stability (which is good).

However, I’m disappointed that last year’s multitasking mess hasn’t been fixed. I still like the iPad, but since iPadOS 26, it’s a less capable tool for me.

These last years’ releases look like those bad Mac years, when they focused on flashy things that resulted in a good demo, instead of good UX, specially for “power users”.
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Whether it needs to be fixed is a subjective thing. I found multitasking far more useful for my needs starting in iPadOS26. Others clearly feel differently.
 
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ScanTheNavian said:
Oh, I was just checking in to see if they hade fixed multitasking yet on 27. I'll keep myself on 18 for a little while longer.
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Apple doesn’t really go back with these changes. If you want the multitasking on iPadOS 18, I think you’re going to have to get used to the idea of just staying there.

In all likelihood, Apple will not revert the change.
 
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FeliApple said:
Apple doesn’t really go back with these changes. If you want the multitasking on iPadOS 18, I think you’re going to have to get used to the idea of just staying there.

In all likelihood, Apple will not revert the change.
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Yeah, and SplitView can be invoked in a very similar way to the way it was in 18 in 26 and 27. I find the multi-windowing system far more flexible. I really don’t see much difference, people still have SplitView if that’s what they want, and it’s pretty easy to set up… 🤷🏼‍♂️
 
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Kal Madda said:
Yeah, and SplitView can be invoked in a very similar way to the way it was in 18 in 26 and 27. I find the multi-windowing system far more flexible. I really don’t see much difference, people still have SplitView if that’s what they want, and it’s pretty easy to set up… 🤷🏼‍♂️
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It bewildered me that people complain about SplitView being missing… as if it’s not available. Apple made changes in iPadOS 26 making it easy to setup as it was back in 18… I understand the criticism on the lack of SlideOver, because that’s completely different.
 
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iPadOS 27 has been pretty good so far for me. Just two notable issues:

1. Is Safari’s UI component/bar at the top of the page completely opaque for everyone? Looks weird and seems like it must be a bug to me
2. I have the new Siri AI on my ios 27 iphone. My 64gb iPad is also desperately trying to force it on, but it’s never going to fit. Any way to disable it for ipad-only, or do I just have to live with my settings app complaining at me until Apple gives us more options?
 
I tried to download the beta from the website and it was a HUGE file. like 20 percent completed and had like 2.8gb. How big is the file?

In my updates for beta's it's only showing iPadOS 26.
 
Steve Adams said:
I tried to download the beta from the website and it was a HUGE file. like 20 percent completed and had like 2.8gb. How big is the file?

In my updates for beta's it's only showing iPadOS 26.
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You have to select “Beta Updates” and there should be an option for 27. If 26 is currently selected, it will just show betas for 26. 👍🏻
 
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SoYoung said:
Still no real simultaneous audio in iPadOS 27 Is a joke. Because of this, my iPad will always remain a glorified media consumption device and nothing very serious otherwise.
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What do you mean? How & why would you want to run "simultaneous audio" on an ipad? Can you listen to both YouTube and Spotify at the same time?
What is your use case specifically?
 
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Steve Adams said:
Ok, I don't have the option for 27. Only 26.
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That’s odd. Have you tried shutting down and restarting the iPad? That may help. Also, the Apple ID needs to be linked with a developer account (can be free) and needs to be the one being used on the iPad. That’s probably pretty obvious, but the only reason I mention it is because I had opted a family member into Betas for them at one point, and then signed out of the developer account. Betas for the prior version of iPadOS that they had installed before still showed up in Software Update, but the beta version that came out after they signed out of developer didn’t. So it may be worth checking the developer account and ensuring it’s properly linked still.

I hope one of those ideas might help. 🙂👍🏻
 
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FYI

Bugs in iPadOS 27. Mainly related to apps misbehaving/parts stop working until a reboot happens once or twice fast here is summary of issues I have reported to feedback

  1. Photos taken by 17 Pro Max (iOS 26.5.1) are blurry when opening
  2. Entire Photos library blurry today until reboot
  3. iMessages lock up for selecting new threads
  4. Photos deleted from photo keep coming back after a full delete and more (Seems to have stopped)
  5. Device Monitor app crashes after a time of using other apps on ipa
  6. A number of apps mostly third party start having issues, but feedback, messsages, also have similar issues
  7. Once apps start misbehaving attaching photos to Feedback, messages, fails (no images show when selecting photos album for attachment)
  8. Also when apps start failing then screen shots saved to photos also fails
 
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