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iOS 26 Beta 3 ― Bug Fixes, Changes, and Improvements
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If so, maybe it's a good trade-off. Let the user become accustomed to where the controls are and what they do, and then let it fade away a touch as you scroll, without disappearing (although they do reduce to a single button in some cases). So it's like three levels of intensity.
I'm not sure I like it either, but I can see the logic.
Is that the iPhone with the island notch on the bottom? 😛
It seems that the notifications screen now is a "thicker" glass. Still seems unresolved what should the background be when you invoke the notification screen because it goes straight from the app to show the wallpaper.
Clock can now be set to a solid color and doesn't re-glass itself like it was before.
Yeah I'm not a fan of how much they've toned it down.
Safari bookmarks. Icons are smaller, the spacing is tighter, or the font is smaller? Not sure. Looks different.
sir... you just installed a new beta. its indexing.
I still for some reason cannot adjust my Lock Screen wallpaper from Lock Screen... It has to do with something on my phone at this point because a full restore it works, but then restoring from iCloud and getting my stuff back on my phone, it doesn't... god this is annoying
When restoring do you get your saved wallpapers back? Have you tried erasing all of them?
Ugh the Messages app still won’t let me scroll up to view old messages, keeps jumping right back to the latest message….
So iOS 26 is just a fresh coat of paint and even that isn’t that new, why advertise liquid glass and make it like iOS 18. This isn’t the update we all deserve and years in the making. Such a shame they have removed most of the liquid glass in this beta
It was likely removed because of optimization issues; it’ll likely come back by the end of the cycle. Perhaps let’s not make assumptions when there are still 5 betas left.
Design should go bold, but then common sense and usability needs to walk it back. Otherwise your phone would now be as thin as a quarter, get 1 hr battery life, and bend if you just looked at it funny.
Granted they should have spent the last two years doing more than Apple Intelligence and Liquid Glass.
I’m gonna hold off for now and stay on beta 2 as it’s caused me no problems since installing. I’ve had one frozen screen and one WhatsApp crash but apart from that, it’s been great.
I do seem to accidentally swipe back when scrolling emails on this iOS though compared to how it used to be. Don’t know if it’s just me or if it’s way more sensitive! 🤣
I do seem to accidentally swipe back when scrolling emails on this iOS though compared to how it used to be. Don’t know if it’s just me or if it’s way more sensitive! 🤣
Seems to me like a natural step with the beta, the first beta toned the Liquid Glass look way up. Which is probably what you want for a beta and then Apple took some stuff from that and changed a little in Beta 2. Now with B3 they go and tone it down and see what the reactions are from that, it's not like iOS 26 is out fully next week, they'll change it back up again probably for B4 and so on.