iOS 26 Beta 4 ― Bug Fixes, Changes, and Improvements

[slomtbr]

What do you mean by that? How can you disable the new phone app and in what way "classic"?

Tap on the three horizontal lines at the top-right…

 

[Enygmatic]

They should probably bring it back.View attachment 2530871

Exactly… complaining just because something is different - there’s NO WAY this can be considered better or ‘usable’. It’s even worse on the iPad when you have tabs, tab groups, etc. all in the same area fighting for space and legibility.

 

[rotvaldi]

When I disable ProMotion, it is much worse on the Pro series. So it should be something between.

I do have two 16 Pros honestly feels choppy not smooth at all

 

[Radeon85]

In B4, the bottom icons in mail are unreadable with a white email background. With the phone set to dark mode, anything with a white background and the icons become unreadable as they stay white. Scroll to a darker section and they show up ok.

This was not an issue as far as I can remember in B1, B2, or B3.

This issue doesn’t seem to affect Safari, as the icons change to black ones once you scroll to a white background.

 

[adrianlondon]

I'm having an issue with all my home-screen folders.

When I open them, only the icons down the left side (i.e. the first column) show. All the other icons flash then disappear. A reboot hasn't helped. Will try a hard reboot later.

Edit: Someone else has the same issue, also with an iPhone 11.

https://www.reddit.com/r/iOSBeta/comments/1m6l8r1/comment/n4lbpgq

 

[patseguin]

They have a new iOS 26 wallpaper which changes color throughout the day.

 

[drinkingtea]

So glad they finally toned down the ridiculous Safari blur.

 

[Polaroid]

Did the restore work for you? I select the IPSW and nothing happens.

Had to DFU restore, recovery mode gave me errors on my Mac.

 

[dwrufus53]

Define good enough. For Apple it's good enough when your device doesn't get bricked or end up in a bootloop. DB4 being PB1 wont magically make it any less of a crappy release, if DB4 is one. Being released as a PB is not a quality seal nor is it a good indicator of the build being of high quality.

They released first PBs with cellular data issues in the past (e.g. modem restarting or calls dropping), cause they deemed it to be not a high priority bug that needs hotfixes.

"Good enough" is subjective. I've been running beta releases on my daily driver for years. Typically, I jump on around DP3 or 4. I am aware that there a tons of reasons why the DPs should not be installed on your main/only phone. I am also fully capable and comfortable rolling back, if it's warranted.

Waiting for the PB1 release is just another level of confirmation that it won't brick my phone. I know stuff won't work perfectly, and some things may not work at all. iOS 26 is a huge change, at least visually, and maybe that's part of my hesitation. I also have a 3-week vacation trip coming up at the end of the month, which also gives me pause. I know that I can recover from a bad situation, but do I want to have to be doing that while we're away and I'm trying to relax.

With all of that said, I have the current dev preview on an older iPhone and on my daily driver iPad mini - and have from DP1.

 

[H3LL5P4WN]

Still doing the disconnect/reconnect thing at 80% when connected to Qi2 (and presumably MagSafe2 then).

 

[Enygmatic]

I’m sure it’s maybe just muscle memory, but are the controls in the camera app (toggling between modes at the bottom, e.g. Video to Photo to Pano) inverted swipes now? Is it just me? I’m on a lot of meds now (surgery), but I swear I’m having to swipe in the opposite direction. Not a biggie either way, just was curious.

 

[H3LL5P4WN]

macOS let me retint my icons… but when i changed my background to test, it won’t change again.

 

[adrianlondon]

I’m sure it’s maybe just muscle memory, but are the controls in the camera app (toggling between modes at the bottom, e.g. Video to Photo to Pano) inverted swipes now? Is it just me? I’m on a lot of meds now (surgery), but I swear I’m having to swipe in the opposite direction. Not a biggie either way, just was curious.

You're correct. It's very odd.

 

[H3LL5P4WN]

The Liquid Glass on the lock screen is boring gray, despite the homescreen’s being properly tinted.

The Liquid Glass on the homescreen items, control panel, and likely elsewhere have a parallax effect.

And notifications are back to the rounded rectangles of previous iOS releases, not the considerably rounder ones we had in B1.

 

[H3LL5P4WN]

I’m sure it’s maybe just muscle memory, but are the controls in the camera app (toggling between modes at the bottom, e.g. Video to Photo to Pano) inverted swipes now? Is it just me? I’m on a lot of meds now (surgery), but I swear I’m having to swipe in the opposite direction. Not a biggie either way, just was curious.

No, they switched the places of the shutter and the mode switcher last beta, and now you have to touch and grab that bubble and drag it to the mode you want. It’s all counterintuitive to what we’ve been doing for like 20 years.

 

[d5aqoëp]

The Hz is variable. At peak it's 120, but it is often 60. I have seen videos showing how really fast actions are only like 80-90 Hz. I could be wrong, but I do not believe iPhones will render more frames than they can display, so your FPS should be same as your Hz.

Whether you’re right or wrong doesn’t matter. I have too read that article. That might also be the problem why Apple phones don’t feel as smooth as some of the top tier Androids.

 

[DUDUBARRA]

Fluidity improved a lot after a few hours of use and a reset of the device. iPhone 16 Pro Max

 

[COBRASVT]

Finally back up and running after a rough restore start. Now just waiting for everything to download so it's usable again.

 

[NoGood@Usernames]

You're correct. It's very odd.

Yep, that tripped me up too.

 

[COBRASVT]

Had to DFU restore, recovery mode gave me errors on my Mac.

Same, but had to update Xcode first. Wouldn't do anything until that point. Went ahead and updated to B4 during restore. Figured, WTH.

 

[Reeneman]

This beta doesn’t feel as smooth as beta 3… 15PM. I know it’s “indexing”.. but beta 1 and 2 both felt smoother. Immediately after installing/booting up.

Pretty sure you will think different after the phone had settled down.

 

[Reeneman]

Anyone else think the status bar color switching when scrolling in safari is super distracting?

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Also, not sure why my screen recording turned dark when I cropped it. Weird.

Would bet a lot of money that this will be further refined and we see something in between DB3 and DB4.

 

[jordanlucero]

Another bugged tweak for how the garage door icon shows up in CarPlay. One day they'll get it hopefully, lol.

 

[Kylo83]

Has the keyboard lag and typing lag been fixed? On 18.5 and 16 pro max the keyboard lag with predictive text enabled. Does iOS 26 beta 4 fix it at all?

 

[rgarita]

This is actually VERY disappointing

Features

• Toned down Liquid Glass effect

liquid glass is nothing, it is just a distractor from the fact apple is YEARS behind Microsoft and Open AI