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iOS 26.4 ― Bug Fixes, Changes, and Improvements

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Am I the only one who has HomeKit not working anymore? All the lights of my Hue Bridge Pro are not «answering» anymore. All HomePods are updated to 26.4... super annoying. Ran perfectly before.
 
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Not sure if this is new in 26.4 but it’s the first time I’ve seen it. The Apple Pay button now shows the default card on the button.
 
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The magsafe charging issue I was experiencing on my phone seems to have been fixed with the final release version (a bug that was in the RC).
 
papbot said:
That will not be resolved until some time in ios 27 if ever. I think they just accepted that this is one of side effects of Liquid Glass or some other feature. I’m doubting we’ll see this change for a long time, at least until they revamp the whole system.
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You're fooling yourself. The redraw was present in iOS 18, going from light to dark icons. I believe it's the way it is.
 
spartan1967 said:
Sounds like Apple still has a lot of work to do with iOS 26. I mean how is the common user supposed to find or figure out the work arounds everyone has been giving so far in this thread, along with issues like stuttering/reloading that exist?
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The stuttering is embarrassing, the ram management is absolutely terrible my apps are constantly reloading just being in the background for a minute or two, 12GB ram just being wasted. Apple is taking place of Samsung when it comes to optimization, the constant lagging is reminding me of touchwiz, not a good look. Modern flagship Samsung devices are essentially lag free, smooth in every app.
 
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H_D said:
Am I the only one who has HomeKit not working anymore? All the lights of my Hue Bridge Pro are not «answering» anymore. All HomePods are updated to 26.4... super annoying. Ran perfectly before.
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There are no issues with HK in 26.4 nor any of the previous betas...the first place you should always go after a OS update is the Home's primary Hub. Have you tried restarting it? Have you updated all your homekit hubs? A bit more info would be helpful here rather than simply stating nothing is working. Have you restarted your Hue Bridge, have you checked for an updated? what have you done in an attempt to get it working?
 
digitalfx said:
There are no issues with HK in 26.4 nor any of the previous betas...the first place you should always go after a OS update is the Home's primary Hub. Have you tried restarting it? Have you updated all your homekit hubs? A bit more info would be helpful here rather than simply stating nothing is working. Have you restarted your Hue Bridge, have you checked for an updated? what have you done in an attempt to get it working?
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Actually that’s not quite true. There is an issue which both Apple and Phillips are aware of with the Hue Bridge Pro and HomeKit. It is up to Apple to provide the fix… But I am not holding my breath nor should anyone else.

The way to fix this issue is to remove the bridge from HomeKit and add it again, but that can be a real pain if you have lots of bulbs and switches etc. and also you might run into the same problem if you then add more devices to the bridge.
 
H_D said:
Am I the only one who has HomeKit not working anymore? All the lights of my Hue Bridge Pro are not «answering» anymore. All HomePods are updated to 26.4... super annoying. Ran perfectly before.
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I am in the same boat. And before anyone else replies and tells me to restart my Apple TV or my router, I am an IT Director with 30+ years of software and networking engineering experience. I have already gone through multiple rounds of extensive diagnostics to try to solve the issue. There is a serious issue between HomeKit and Hue. Also, all of my other HomeKit devices work, only Hue, and only since 26.4. I have over 80 hue lights, and am not going to go through the process of re-adding them one by one to HomeKit after deleting the link between the two. Unless there is a quick fix, I'm going to setup HomeBridge on a Raspberry Pi and access Hue via HomeKit that way.
 
StumpyBloke said:
Actually that’s not quite true. There is an issue which both Apple and Phillips are aware of with the Hue Bridge Pro and HomeKit. It is up to Apple to provide the fix… But I am not holding my breath nor should anyone else.

The way to fix this issue is to remove the bridge from HomeKit and add it again, but that can be a real pain if you have lots of bulbs and switches etc. and also you might run into the same problem if you then add more devices to the bridge.
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My post is meant to say HK is function properly and has been thru all of the betas...I wasn't speaking to a specific 3rd party hub which may have issues. I can say that I have hundreds of devices brought in thru a variety of sources including Homebridge and Home Assistant and dont have a single issue, and haven't frankly for well over a year or more. I also have 75 lights configured thru Lutron and they haven't missed a beat in HK since installed many =years ago. That being said, I suspect the issue some have experienced falls on the Hue side, not "Apple is to provide the fix"... Apple provides the ecosystem, typically its up the the vendor to be complaint.
 
zacware said:
I am in the same boat. And before anyone else replies and tells me to restart my Apple TV or my router, I am an IT Director with 30+ years of software and networking engineering experience. I have already gone through multiple rounds of extensive diagnostics to try to solve the issue. There is a serious issue between HomeKit and Hue. Also, all of my other HomeKit devices work, only Hue, and only since 26.4. I have over 80 hue lights, and am not going to go through the process of re-adding them one by one to HomeKit after deleting the link between the two. Unless there is a quick fix, I'm going to setup HomeBridge on a Raspberry Pi and access Hue via HomeKit that way.
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Let us know how that goes, if it works, I think it will be clear where the issue resides
 
zacware said:
I am in the same boat. And before anyone else replies and tells me to restart my Apple TV or my router, I am an IT Director with 30+ years of software and networking engineering experience. I have already gone through multiple rounds of extensive diagnostics to try to solve the issue. There is a serious issue between HomeKit and Hue. Also, all of my other HomeKit devices work, only Hue, and only since 26.4. I have over 80 hue lights, and am not going to go through the process of re-adding them one by one to HomeKit after deleting the link between the two. Unless there is a quick fix, I'm going to setup HomeBridge on a Raspberry Pi and access Hue via HomeKit that way.
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Very unlikely there will be a quick fix. I first had this problem months ago and the only way I could sort it was to re-add the bridge. I don’t want to go through that again. A lot of people on Reddit are doing what you suggest though and seemingly with success.

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digitalfx said:
no. have you tried removing the phone from CarPlay and re-adding?
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Yes. No joy on both phones. This is clearly a bug as both phones have largely had no issues for years. No settings were changed, only iOS was updated. Both phones at the same time stopped functioning as before. Add in the fact that Apple added functionality to CarPlay (with AI voice capabilities) would logically point to, a bug.
 
iPad Pro 11
Safari

Getting some shopping sites fail to load sub window data - says Please Retry.

When searching via Google, the top sponsor that show your item and where to purchase extends beyond the right hand edge of the screen hiding the directional arrow. Happens in both landscape and portrait (see screenshot below). I can get the arrow to show if I press, pull and hold but it hides as soon as I lift my finger or pencil.

Spell Check is inconsistent. It will flag some entries misspelled (red line), correct others, or just ignore some completely. Did the kb reset but that helped not at all.

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I resolved to keep OS18.3 on my 13mini until the advent of at least OS27.

But my phone started random glitching.

So I finally gave in and upgraded to OS26.4.

Gotta say … it’s not awful. Which is to say it’s OK so far. I have noted a number of really obvious and irritating user experience choices that Apple has made… to which a rational person would have said in the dev and UAT stages, “don’t code it that way.” They are very irritating but not deal breakers. And I will say that beyond the recent glitch prone nature of 18.3, I had not ever had many OS irritations with iPhones. I will just hope they are resolved in .5, .6, etc.

So 18.3’s glitchiness is gone and I’ve got nice stability in normal web use. And, the most shocking thing is, this 13mini now flies. FLIES, I say. It zips through everything like it’s running an M5 chip and a better modem. In this regard, it feels like I have a new phone. Not a new 13mini - no. Feels like I have a new 16 or 17e or such.

The only regret I have is that this OS sucks battery 3x or 4x faster than 18 did. A new battery is cheaper than a new phone…. Such is life.
 
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apple still not fix simple thing-translation in safari, each time it asks to choose language. ****
 
ValerieDurden said:
The stuttering is embarrassing, the ram management is absolutely terrible my apps are constantly reloading just being in the background for a minute or two, 12GB ram just being wasted. Apple is taking place of Samsung when it comes to optimization, the constant lagging is reminding me of touchwiz, not a good look. Modern flagship Samsung devices are essentially lag free, smooth in every app.
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I am so confused by this. I have a 17 Pro Max, and my apps don’t reload on 26.4. They did on my 16 Pro Max for some reason, but not on my 17 Pro Max.

I have had zero performance issues as well. I don’t know what kind of apps you are running where its causing it to reload apps, but that should never happen unless you are running several very big and memory intensive apps at once, like games.
 
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