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iOS 26.3 Beta 1― Bug Fixes, Changes, and Improvements
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It appears like my location services are sometimes freaking out. Sometimes launching an app that requests location hangs for a minute then crashes, with the Location indicator in the status bar not changing. happens occasionally on all apps that need location access. But, I have noticed that if the location status indicator changes, the apps launch immediately like normal.
Odd for sure. I have cycled on/off location services but the problem reappears.
Odd for sure. I have cycled on/off location services but the problem reappears.
It wasn’t just that site.
Mumsnet and Pick My Postcode are the two I remember with the issue which still have the issue, but there were others, too. Some have re-done their website to work around it, in some cases by dumping the bottom nav bar.
I’m no stranger to issues but so far I don’t think I’ve run into any resprings with 26.3 at least as far as I’m aware/can remember
I imagine they’ll notice and care about the legibility issues, and that it appears more difficult to use iOS 26. It really feels like Apple have abandoned or forgotten the simplicity of iOS which was one of its selling points.
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Just installed B1. So far things are nice and speedy. A bit more butter than 26.2.
I am seeing strange location services behavior. It’s showing on my home screen that it’s off, when it’s turned on. Wonder if it relates to Focus modes?
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Huffffff (big sigh).
Guys, I caved in. I downloaded and installed 26.3 Beta 1. I'm so weak.
But...................................damn, it's so smooth and snappy on my 16PM. I'm almost reluctant to download and install b2 when it comes out for fear of Apple making a worse beta.
Guys, I caved in. I downloaded and installed 26.3 Beta 1. I'm so weak.
But...................................damn, it's so smooth and snappy on my 16PM. I'm almost reluctant to download and install b2 when it comes out for fear of Apple making a worse beta.
Had too many issues with Safari so I went ahead and bit the bullet and did a factory reset then restored from the previous good backup - 26.2
Biggest issue - it blew up all my folders but one. All the apps were there but the folders were gone.
First time I have seen that in forever.
Fixed then loaded 26.3
So far Safari seems to be working. 🤞🏼. Knock on wood.
Biggest issue - it blew up all my folders but one. All the apps were there but the folders were gone.
First time I have seen that in forever.
Fixed then loaded 26.3
So far Safari seems to be working. 🤞🏼. Knock on wood.
Another regression for the retarded Siri that I have just noticed. When playing music on my phone I could ask “when was this song released” and Siri would respond with the correct answer. A while ago this stopped working through AirPods and now puts me through to ChatGPT asking for the name of the song et cetera.
Now it no longer works on the phone and brings up a Google search for various songs called “this song“.
Could anyone else please confirm this? For info I am playing Apple Music. Thanks.
Feedback ID: FB21523123
Now it no longer works on the phone and brings up a Google search for various songs called “this song“.
Could anyone else please confirm this? For info I am playing Apple Music. Thanks.
Feedback ID: FB21523123
Started having issues with my Apple Music library - lots of songs are unavailable. This started happening around new year’s…
If you are referring to purchased music, some music disappears due to it is no longer available via Apple's Music Store. This could happen when the artist or the owner of the music (e.g., record company, etc.) no longer makes it available to Apple.
From the Apple Music catalogue.
No, not purchased.
Seems to be quite random, even Taylor songs are affected. 🙄
For some, removing the song from a playlist / music library and adding it again works (although I have many playlists and don’t want to do this for all unavailable songs…). Others are missing even in the Apple Music catalogue (let’s say it’s a single, the album appears in the search, but shows no content - for some songs, this got fixed after a few days, but the song still remains greyed out in the music library).
Hi, I have the same thing, this is probably due to issues of Apple negotiating different copyrights depending on the region and the time period.
I’m on 26.2 and Siri behaves the same. It does searches for random songs instead of answering the question. Asking “what song is playing now”, then quickly asking “what year was it released” results in Siri asking to use ChatGPT. Saying no just ends the interaction.
If it was behaving differently before, it definitely isn’t now. As with most all Siri issues, this is a backend issue not tied to iOS version. Siri is so unreliable, and it’s infuriating finding a good use case only to have it stop working at random.
Thanks for confirming.
It just boggles my mind that some inept toss pot(s) at Apple sits there making these decisions and provably and demonstrably makes Siri more and more useless year after year. The whole management team should’ve been sacked a decade ago.
Seeing more things where Siri used to answer and now getting more ChatGPT crap instead.
Let's hope they push a server-side fix for this. I don't want to go through all of my library to fix this....