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I had issues charging with MagSafe during the beta. It wouldn’t charge some nights or would only partially charge other times. I quit using MagSafe for now.
I’ve had this problem too my 16 Pro Max has very erratic MagSafe charging. I have documented and reported to Apple and the feedback app is showing “more than 10” which means there’s a lot of people have reported this and it certainly will be fixed. Hopefully in the next Beta.
 
This is a very minor criticism, but I can’t stand these checkboxes for some reason. They just seem very inconsistent with the design language of iOS 26. It wouldn’t surprise me if they change.

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This is a very minor criticism, but I can’t stand these checkboxes for some reason. They just seem very inconsistent with the design language of iOS 26. It wouldn’t surprise me if they change.

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I think the opposite — it's nice to have some actual buttons return. I love how they light up when you press them. In many cases, those 'Done' and other text links replaced button shapes with iOS 7. The text links also make for some weird/long translations in many languages.
 
It's kind of what happens when one has unrealistic expectations for a first or second beta on their primary device. As a retired coder, I can state with 100% certainty that solid code (there's no such thing as "perfect" code) can often get FUBAR with subsequent changes and evolutions. The fact that this is the "NINETEENTH release" of iOS notwithstanding, this is developmental code. As such, it's not intended for daily use on your primary device, and problems, even show-stopping, scorched earth problems are possible. Expect nothing less.
I’ve seen instances where a person makes changes that they didn’t move up. So that caused all sorts of problems. Yes that should be caught with testing. In my early days of coding our organization wasn’t very rigorous about testing everything after a build/compile. But we only had a few dozen internal users so a very different scenario.
 
I’ve seen instances where a person makes changes that they didn’t move up. So that caused all sorts of problems. Yes that should be caught with testing. In my early days of coding our organization wasn’t very rigorous about testing everything after a build/compile. But we only had a few dozen internal users so a very different scenario.
I’m not a developer and, I believe, very few AppleSeeders are. We were invited ages ago to join their beta test program. In the early days, I had additional devices that weren’t used as often as my iPad and phone are, so I would use one of them for the installation, and if things progressed well enough, I would consider installing on my primary devices. A couple of releases, I believe the worst for me were 8, 10, and 11. 11 I’m certain was horrible as it was still really bad when it was released that fall to the public. 11.1 came out fairly quickly and resolved the worst of the issues, but, as I had a brand new device that came installed with 11, it was pretty disturbing.

Anyway, since those days, I hold off until version 4 or 5 of any current betas. This time, however, I got lured in and installed beta 2 on my iPad. I still won’t touch my phone with these. So far, I’ve been quite surprised and pleased at how few issues I’ve run into. Back in the iOS 11 beta days, filing submission reports became a full-time job with all the issues I was discovering every day. So far, in 26, I’ve only filed 2. The other things I see are just some display glitches such as one element overlaying another, which is normally cleared by either scrolling up and down or closing out the app. But nothing really that I wouldn’t expect to see at such an early stage. No battery issues, no heating, that seems to have been mostly reported on the phones. Nothing critical that impairs my using my iPad in all primary functions.
 
I’m not a developer and, I believe, very few AppleSeeders are. We were invited ages ago to join their beta test program. In the early days, I had additional devices that weren’t used as often as my iPad and phone are, so I would use one of them for the installation, and if things progressed well enough, I would consider installing on my primary devices. A couple of releases, I believe the worst for me were 8, 10, and 11. 11 I’m certain was horrible as it was still really bad when it was released that fall to the public. 11.1 came out fairly quickly and resolved the worst of the issues, but, as I had a brand new device that came installed with 11, it was pretty disturbing.

Anyway, since those days, I hold off until version 4 or 5 of any current betas. This time, however, I got lured in and installed beta 2 on my iPad. I still won’t touch my phone with these. So far, I’ve been quite surprised and pleased at how few issues I’ve run into. Back in the iOS 11 beta days, filing submission reports became a full-time job with all the issues I was discovering every day. So far, in 26, I’ve only filed 2. The other things I see are just some display glitches such as one element overlaying another, which is normally cleared by either scrolling up and down or closing out the app. But nothing really that I wouldn’t expect to see at such an early stage. No battery issues, no heating, that seems to have been mostly reported on the phones. Nothing critical that impairs my using my iPad in all primary functions.

Well, my iOS 26 supported iPhone 11 heats up like an oven on most mundane tasks using Apple’s own apps, so it definitely needs some optimising for older supported devices.
 
Anyone know how to get the Home Screen widgets and icons to be fully black? I feel like I’ve given up my gorgeous OLED display and gone back to a 20 year old LCD panel. They are washed out, like my liquid glass is foggy and needs to be wiped clean. Does not look good at all. I tried increase contrast accessibility mode but that made no difference.
 

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Interesting. I'm not having any of these issues. Doesn't make me an Apple apologist.
I’m not either. People probably shouldn’t assume automatically that they are universal problems—which is not to minimize the comments of those who are experiencing problems. Blanket statements are often inapplicable.
 
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Been on iOS 26 Beta 2 since it was introduced a week ago.

I have an iPhone 16 Pro Max


Things I have observed...

1. It wiped all my stored WiFi passwords from PassKeys. In the past OS, I had WiFi keys stored from hotels I had visited a decade prior. This new install erased all that information

2. AutoMix is not working well for me. Sometimes it doesn't work. Sometimes one song will end and then Apple Music jumps to the Middle of the next song (instead of the beginning)

3. Bluetooth will not connect to my Ford Lincoln. If I receive phone calls in my car while using CarPlay the other person is unable to hear me.

4. During a phone call, the audio output will suddenly change from speaker to phone.

4. AirPlay to my Sonos speakers often disconnects

The phone runs hot.
 
Been on iOS 26 Beta 2 since it was introduced a week ago.

I have an iPhone 16 Pro Max


Things I have observed...

1. It wiped all my stored WiFi passwords from PassKeys. In the past OS, I had WiFi keys stored from hotels I had visited a decade prior. This new install erased all that information

2. AutoMix is not working well for me. Sometimes it doesn't work. Sometimes one song will end and then Apple Music jumps to the Middle of the next song (instead of the beginning)

3. Bluetooth will not connect to my Ford Lincoln. If I receive phone calls in my car while using CarPlay the other person is unable to hear me.

4. During a phone call, the audio output will suddenly change from speaker to phone.

4. AirPlay to my Sonos speakers often disconnects

The phone runs hot.
Make sure to report all these in the feedback app!
 
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Been on iOS 26 Beta 2 since it was introduced a week ago.

I have an iPhone 16 Pro Max


Things I have observed...

1. It wiped all my stored WiFi passwords from PassKeys. In the past OS, I had WiFi keys stored from hotels I had visited a decade prior. This new install erased all that information

2. AutoMix is not working well for me. Sometimes it doesn't work. Sometimes one song will end and then Apple Music jumps to the Middle of the next song (instead of the beginning)

3. Bluetooth will not connect to my Ford Lincoln. If I receive phone calls in my car while using CarPlay the other person is unable to hear me.

4. During a phone call, the audio output will suddenly change from speaker to phone.

4. AirPlay to my Sonos speakers often disconnects

The phone runs hot.
I'm on a 16 Pro Max and I'm having no issues with my saved WiFi Passwords, AutoMix is sort of me but when it works its cool, not having any issues with Bluetooth or calls dropping, and everyone's phone will run hot after an update due to all of the files moving around and caching and indexing. Give it a day or two after updating...
 
For those experiencing keyboard freezing issues on WhatsApp, try disabling predictive text under keyboard settings. This seemingly resolved my problem, and the keyboard is now functioning normally.
 
Ghost in the Siri machine…

Starting this morning 2025-07-04 asking Siri to set a Timer would give a response in how to set a timer. I deleted ask the previous timers I had but that hasn’t helped. It just opens Tips. I’ve hard rebooted several times.
 

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Ghost in the Siri machine…

Starting this morning 2025-07-04 asking Siri to set a Timer would give a response in how to set a timer. I deleted ask the previous timers I had but that hasn’t helped. It just opens Tips. I’ve hard rebooted several times.
I’m seeing that as well.
 
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Ghost in the Siri machine…

Starting this morning 2025-07-04 asking Siri to set a Timer would give a response in how to set a timer. I deleted ask the previous timers I had but that hasn’t helped. It just opens Tips. I’ve hard rebooted several times.
I'm still on 18.5.

I set timers by not being polite. "Hey siri, one hour timer".

Does that still work?
 
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