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I don't see any visual bugs in iOS 26

Paddle1 said:
No, I'm on 26.1 final. I didn't discover this myself, it was discussed in the pinned bug fixes/changes thread a few weeks back.
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Thanks. That’s weird because I’m on 26.1 and don’t have anything like that visual bug on my 16 Pro. Because it’s not a universal bug, it would be interesting to know for what phones and in what situations it reproducibly occurs. For example, is it dark mode only? Does it require having a specific app up?

I don’t work for Apple and don’t squash bugs, but I’m interested when people report a bug in trying to replicate it on my device. I haven’t been successful over the years in replicating many forum (Reddit or MacRumors) reported bugs. I’m not complaining about that because it’s good to have iPhones and Macs that have mostly been bug free in my use over the decades I’ve been using them. That’s not to say they are bug free — complex software will always have bugs — but maybe I’ve just been lucky to not have any bugs be clearly noticeable or disruptive to my use of the devices.
 
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AlixSPQR said:
Maybe. It’s difficult to know. Also, the appearance may differ between models.
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Take the Control Center "ghosting" (as someone call it). There are so many different ways a drop-down menu can be presented: it can be unrolled, it can be expanded diagonally from one corner, it can be unfolded, it can pop up with a bounce, it can just appear with zero animation. And it can cross-fade like in iOS 26. I'm not making these examples up, I have seen all of these animations in the past: some desktop environments like KDE 3.x gave a lot of customization options in terms of visual effects (probably KDE Plasma still does).
For some reason some people are convinced that the current animation of Control Center is a bug and not a choice, which is the most natural explanation for a UI which plays a lot with transparency.
It's not even clear how a coding mistake can create a different animation from what they expect (I'd also like to know what is the correct animation).
 
neuropsychguy said:
Thanks. That’s weird because I’m on 26.1 and don’t have anything like that visual bug on my 16 Pro. Because it’s not a universal bug, it would be interesting to know for what phones and in what situations it reproducibly occurs. For example, is it dark mode only? Does it require having a specific app up?

I don’t work for Apple and don’t squash bugs, but I’m interested when people report a bug in trying to replicate it on my device. I haven’t been successful over the years in replicating many forum (Reddit or MacRumors) reported bugs. I’m not complaining about that because it’s good to have iPhones and Macs that have mostly been bug free in my use over the decades I’ve been using them. That’s not to say they are bug free — complex software will always have bugs — but maybe I’ve just been lucky to not have any bugs be clearly noticeable or disruptive to my use of the devices.
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It's not exclusive to dark mode, but I have noticed it's really hard to see over a light background, even I can't really see it then.
 
JoeSilver said:
Take the Control Center "ghosting" (as someone call it). There are so many different ways a drop-down menu can be presented: it can be unrolled, it can be expanded diagonally from one corner, it can be unfolded, it can pop up with a bounce, it can just appear with zero animation. And it can cross-fade like in iOS 26. I'm not making these examples up, I have seen all of these animations in the past: some desktop environments like KDE 3.x gave a lot of customization options in terms of visual effects (probably KDE Plasma still does).
For some reason some people are convinced that the current animation of Control Center is a bug and not a choice, which is the most natural explanation for a UI which plays a lot with transparency.
It's not even clear how a coding mistake can create a different animation from what they expect (I'd also like to know what is the correct animation).
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The fade isn't a bug, it seems more like the fade animation freezes. That it behaves this way in version 26.1 only makes it seem unintentional. Apparently addressed in 26.2 but I don't have it to check.
 
Paddle1 said:
The fade isn't a bug, it seems more like the fade animation freezes. That it behaves this way in version 26.1 only makes it seem unintentional. Apparently addressed in 26.2 but I don't have it to check.
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I agree, if it's a slightly protracted persistence, like I've seen in some posts in this forum, it is not intentional.
I have to say, I haven't experienced it in any of the 26 releases.
 
Here is visual bug that's easy to reproduce:
(1) open an email in Mail while holding the phone in portrait orientation;
(2) flip the phone to landscape orientation;
(3) flip the phone back to portrait mode and, depending on whether you are in light or dark mode, a solid white/black overlap will appear that obscures 95% of the email (see example screenshot). You can actually scroll the email underneath, you just can't see it. Only way to view the email is to go back out to the inbox and select the email again:

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grammatica said:
One annoying bug is the loading of icons in Settings, the Apps library in macOS, apps on the Home Screen. For an unknown reason, they load row-by-row.

Here's an example from Reddit: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gj0P1X__baVUotmibifMBVCMa7V-BE3c/view
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The loading of icons in Settings happened in iOS 18 too. (Maybe earlier?) Unless I’m misremembering, it started when they introduced dark versions of app icons.

The loading/redrawing of app icons on the Home Screen appears to be when using Clear or Tinted icons.
 
The mail app since forever never deletes my emails from trash on the initial delete. They instantly come back and I have to re-delete for them to actually delete. Drives me crazy every time.
 
ddarko said:
Here is visual bug that's easy to reproduce:
(1) open an email in Mail while holding the phone in portrait orientation;
(2) flip the phone to landscape orientation;
(3) flip the phone back to portrait mode and, depending on whether you are in light or dark mode, a solid white/black overlap will appear that obscures 95% of the email (see example screenshot). You can actually scroll the email underneath, you just can't see it. Only way to view the email is to go back out to the inbox and select the email again:

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Does that happen for you every time? I've tried dozens of times to reproduce that and I'm not having any problems.
 
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neuropsychguy said:
Does that happen for you every time? I've tried dozens of times to reproduce that and I'm not having any problems.
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Can‘t replicate that on my iPhone16. But, iOS26 bugs seem to be pretty device-specific. I had quite some slowdown on my iPad Air 3, but didn‘t see a lot of them. On my M5 pro it‘s been bug-galore from day one. 26.1 has removed about half of them, but introduced a few new ones.
 
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neuropsychguy said:
Does that happen for you every time? I've tried dozens of times to reproduce that and I'm not having any problems.
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It does happen to me every time with every email, both light or dark mode, on an iPhone 17 Pro. I think it started with 26.1 though it may have also been in 26.0.1. It's such a bad and easily triggered bug that I assumed it was universal so it's helpful to know it's not. I may do a fresh re-install of iOS - I've had some other frustrating behavior with 26.1 with Airdrop and Maps so maybe a clean reinstall would help. Appreciate the feedback.
 
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