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

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iLuddite said:
Scrolling in Safari is a stuttery mess. It’s been 24+ hours and I’ve restarted. 16 Pro Max
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You're not the first, but I have not seen any issues across my devices (including a 16PM).

Check your settings:
  • Low Power mode off?
  • ProMotion on?
  • Content blockers disabled?
  • Clear Safari cache?

Try loading an endlessly scrolling page like Slashfilm. When you near the bottom of the article, it loads the next. Scroll at a decent pace (and try scrolling back up too). If it "bottoms out" waiting for the next article to load too often, there might be a caching issue (or a slow connection).
www.slashfilm.com

Timothée Chalamet Bombed His Audition For This Hit Horror Series - SlashFilm

Timothée Chalamet once shared a very funny story about the reason he bombed his audition for the A&E TV series Bates Motel.
www.slashfilm.com www.slashfilm.com

Would also like to hear if anyone experiencing these issues finds scrolling stutter in long Notes or Pages documents. Is this just limited to web content rendering or an animation issue?
 
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HouseLannister said:
You're not the first, but I have not seen any issues across my devices (including a 16PM).

Check your settings:
  • Low Power mode off?
  • ProMotion on?
  • Content blockers disabled?
  • Clear Safari cache?

Try loading an endlessly scrolling page like Slashfilm. When you near the bottom of the article, it loads the next. Scroll at a decent pace (and try scrolling back up too). If it "bottoms out" waiting for the next article to load too often, there might be a caching issue (or a slow connection).
www.slashfilm.com

Timothée Chalamet Bombed His Audition For This Hit Horror Series - SlashFilm

Timothée Chalamet once shared a very funny story about the reason he bombed his audition for the A&E TV series Bates Motel.
www.slashfilm.com www.slashfilm.com

Would also like to hear if anyone experiencing these issues finds scrolling stutter in long Notes or Pages documents. Is this just limited to web content rendering or an animation issue?
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How to check if ProMotion is enabled?
 
jayjay14 said:
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Definitely looks more liquidy to me.
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ahh yess this is db3
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Reading all of this, looks like beta 4 is still not quite reliable enough to confidently use on a daily driver. At least, for some people.
 
Saberon2014 said:
Anyone getting intermittent notifications for Messages? It’s been present since B2.

Sometimes I will get no sound/notification for texts, but the message will be there. No filtering options are on and it happens when locked and unlocked.
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Yes, that was the very first thing I noticed after installing.
 
jelew1985 said:
does anyone else have an issue with RCS only working on cellular but breaks on wifi? This seems to be a new issue starting with beta 1.

I use T-Mobile
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This is probably a wifi issue. iOS uses some awkward 5xxx port for RCS, which is not automatically whitelisted on networks. Same issue at my workplace.

The funny thing is, it used to work a while ago.

thatJohann said:
Reading all of this, looks like beta 4 is still not quite reliable enough to confidently use on a daily driver. At least, for some people.
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Currently running it on my daily driver and apart from the occasional stutter when swiping or UI artifacts opening messages app conversations, it is pretty good. Phone is a tad warmer than with 18.6, but that is to be expected.

Battery life is about the same, slightly worse than 18.6 but still going to bed at 30% charge (we charge over night).

Probably a good idea to wait one or two more beta drops and then jump on.
 
What’s the deal with priority / time-sensitive notifications? My Messages notifications (and Reminders) used to always be at the top of my list, and everything else was in a separate list below it. Now, Messages just get mixed into the middle with all of the random app notifications. There seems to be no way to separate them. Time-sensitive is toggled on, and I’ve tried Priority on and off with seemingly no change in behavior. Am I missing something?

Edit: I’m noticing the Messages (and other Priority notifications) only stay at the top the first time you see them. Regardless of whether you interact with them. Then as soon as you lock the screen or return home, once you go back to the notification list, suddenly all those priority notifications are now mixed into the full notifications list, ordered by most recent. Kinda defeats the purpose of Priority, doesn’t it? How can I get this back to the iOS 18 behavior, which was far more efficient?
 
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HouseLannister said:
You're not the first, but I have not seen any issues across my devices (including a 16PM).

Check your settings:
  • Low Power mode off?
  • ProMotion on?
  • Content blockers disabled?
  • Clear Safari cache?

Try loading an endlessly scrolling page like Slashfilm. When you near the bottom of the article, it loads the next. Scroll at a decent pace (and try scrolling back up too). If it "bottoms out" waiting for the next article to load too often, there might be a caching issue (or a slow connection).
www.slashfilm.com

Timothée Chalamet Bombed His Audition For This Hit Horror Series - SlashFilm

Timothée Chalamet once shared a very funny story about the reason he bombed his audition for the A&E TV series Bates Motel.
www.slashfilm.com www.slashfilm.com

Would also like to hear if anyone experiencing these issues finds scrolling stutter in long Notes or Pages documents. Is this just limited to web content rendering or an animation issue?
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Yeah I regularly clear my Safari cache, cookies, and history and I never have (nor have I heard of) issues with content blockers causing choppy scrolling. I use Userscripts (beta), Wipr 2, and StopTheMadness Pro for what it’s worth. Low Power Mode is off and 120hz is on obviously.
 
thatJohann said:
Reading all of this, looks like beta 4 is still not quite reliable enough to confidently use on a daily driver. At least, for some people.
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Instability and bugs in iOS are an issue, but in addition to that, some apps don't work right or at all with it. I use iOS 26 as my daily driver, but for example two of my mobile carrier account apps don't work. The KLM airline app doesn't work either, which is a pain since I'm flying KLM in a few weeks. Furthermore, one of my banking apps keeps asking that I authenticate with my other device with it installed, except that it's only installed on that one device. It seems that when I upgraded to iOS 26, my bank thought I had installed the app on a new device. Mind you that banking app didn't work at all until it was updated around the time beta 3 came out. With the older version on beta 1 and 2, it would just fail.
 
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HouseLannister said:
I always thought the icons are too big and the density could be improved. My request was an auto-hiding dock that could go on the side like the Samsung edge panel. Then the icon grid on the phone could be more like 8x5 or so.

The giant blue checkmark in many apps makes me think they are going the other way, though. Make everything large and easy to hit. Maybe the designers are getting up there in years and just can't see their phones like they used to. 😝
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It's the same thing they did when the larger screen iPhones were first introduced, so I'm guessing they're getting ready for the foldable iPhone. At the cost of screen real estate for the "regular" iPhones.
 
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VSMacOne said:
It's the same thing they did when the larger screen iPhones were first introduced, so I'm guessing they're getting ready for the foldable iPhone. At the cost of screen real estate for the "regular" iPhones.
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Yes, it seems as iPhones get bigger, newer versions of iOS and many of the apps feel more and more cramped on smaller iPhones. Apple's current "budget" iPhone being 6.1" is a sign that soon anything less than that is not going to be optimal.
 
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Apple Maps (transit) routing often ends active navigation and reloads route options when switching between another app and Maps; seems worse while listening to (downloaded, lossless) music (in Apple Music). Really quite annoying.

Feedback reported—FB19032275.
 
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