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iOS 26 Beta 5 ― Bug Fixes, Changes, and Improvements

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Got a scoop here:
iOS 27 will introduce the Brick interface where all the buttons will resemble bricks with carved inscriptions! When you touch them it will clink like tapping two bricks together!!

Then later in the development cycle they will introduce Apple Incontinence which will really get things moving.

And you thought Gurman got the inside info…
 
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ShaneSparkyYYZ said:
My install was 1.58GB on my 15PM coming from the first public beta of iOS 26. I found that a bit odd too.
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on my 15pm it's 9gb 😳

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Solid black wallpaper with dark icons is the only way to make liquid glass look decent. I loved light icons in dark mode on iOS 18, but they screwed up the grays in Settings, Calculator, and Camera... all look hideous as light icons.
 
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Weird but this beta still runs a little warm, still not smooth and still reloads icons when flipping through pages. Glass effect is inconsistent, notification looks super cool and glassy, while control center looks forgotten. Calling app is cluncky and not intuitive if you want to use new interface. Why can’t we not get phone icon to make a call vs clicking any part of contact row to make a call? So many butt dials would go away.

iOS is very very stale. They keep reshuffling the deck vs starting from ground up. That’s why so many bugs for very few changes. Also did they forget about this all hyped up Dynamic Island? Where is Siri with AI, where is better CarPlay? I am down to 2 stacks from 3 in beta 1. All this but my profile picture does not load in health or settings since beta 3.

Being a software developer in the past, Apple development approach has lost strategic focus. They seem to be very bloated with developers and leaders who are there to push their teams only and not the whole iOS. They are not the same. They lost their way and maybe need a year or so of a break from baiting us with stuff that never materializes. For once in many years I may skip the phone upgrade.

At least when I see stuttering on my 16Pro, I can blame its old age. But would be pissed if it happened on a new 17Pro model.

That’s just my opinion.
 
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chillip said:
Going back to IOS 18.6, just too many stutters on 16 pro.
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I jumped on beta train with this B5 and I feel the same on my 15PM. It’s smooth but there are some frame drops in animations. I am very sensitive to stuttering so they bother me a lot.

Otherwise is running solid.

Will think about downgrading to 18.6
 
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Has anyone else noticed that the swiping to change modes (now only by default in beta 5) in the camera app is completely different from any other swiping action in the rest of the system, for example swiping between tabs in Safari, or swiping between apps using the Home Bar?

I realize I’m very much two months late to it, but it just occurred to me all over again with beta 5 introducing a toggle for “classic mode switching”.

And actually, as I’m typing this, I’m realizing that the new default gesture for switching camera modes behaves identically to dragging between tabs in other tab bars across the system.

That once again asks though, why the two different swiping directions? (pushing out of the way vs pulling over top)

(There was no little things thread this year?)
 
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ValentBay said:
My god this is awfull. You just have to put a white wallpaper to obtain this … thing. Why Apple hates contrast now ?
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Why would you use a white background with clear icons? What exactly did you expect here?

Surely the darker version of the clear icons would suffice. But that wouldn’t make a complaint post as impactful, I guess.

In other news, if I turn my screen brightness all the way down and then go outside in the sun, I can’t see my screen. What the heck, Apple?!
 
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Dj64Mk7 said:
Has anyone else noticed that the swiping to change modes (now only by default in beta 5) in the camera app is completely different from any other swiping action in the rest of the system, for example swiping between tabs in Safari, or swiping between apps using the Home Bar?

I realize I’m very much two months late to it, but it just occurred to me all over again with beta 5 introducing a toggle for “classic mode switching”.

And actually, as I’m typing this, I’m realizing that the new default gesture for switching camera modes behaves identically to dragging between tabs in other tab bars across the system.

That once again asks though, why the two different swiping directions? (pushing out of the way vs pulling over top)

(There was no little things thread this year?)
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Yeah I hated that so much. They added an option for that in camera settings to change it back to normal.
 
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joshwithachance said:
I'm genuinely concerned about this release, particularly for 16 Pro/Max users. Because there's only a couple betas left before RC/final...
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Only if Apple insists on crunch culture and shipping another broken x.0 release. Maybe they will learn their lesson and ship the 17-series with 18.6 and just keep working on it for another couple months. Probably not, but it's nice to dream.
 
MadRed said:
Weird but this beta still runs a little warm, still not smooth and still reloads icons when flipping through pages. Glass effect is inconsistent, notification looks super cool and glassy, while control center looks forgotten. Calling app is cluncky and not intuitive if you want to use new interface. Why can’t we not get phone icon to make a call vs clicking any part of contact row to make a call? So many butt dials would go away.

iOS is very very stale. They keep reshuffling the deck vs starting from ground up. That’s why so many bugs for very few changes. Also did they forget about this all hyped up Dynamic Island? Where is Siri with AI, where is better CarPlay? I am down to 2 stacks from 3 in beta 1. All this but my profile picture does not load in health or settings since beta 3.

Being a software developer in the past, Apple development approach has lost strategic focus. They seem to be very bloated with developers and leaders who are there to push their teams only and not the whole iOS. They are not the same. They lost their way and maybe need a year or so of a break from baiting us with stuff that never materializes. For once in many years I may skip the phone upgrade.

At least when I see stuttering on my 16Pro, I can blame its old age. But would be pissed if it happened on a new 17Pro model.

That’s just my opinion.
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Old age lol. Imagine some truly "old" devices running this if even the most top of the line device stutters.
 
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MadRed said:
Weird but this beta still runs a little warm, still not smooth and still reloads icons when flipping through pages. Glass effect is inconsistent, notification looks super cool and glassy, while control center looks forgotten. Calling app is cluncky and not intuitive if you want to use new interface. Why can’t we not get phone icon to make a call vs clicking any part of contact row to make a call? So many butt dials would go away.

iOS is very very stale. They keep reshuffling the deck vs starting from ground up. That’s why so many bugs for very few changes. Also did they forget about this all hyped up Dynamic Island? Where is Siri with AI, where is better CarPlay? I am down to 2 stacks from 3 in beta 1. All this but my profile picture does not load in health or settings since beta 3.

Being a software developer in the past, Apple development approach has lost strategic focus. They seem to be very bloated with developers and leaders who are there to push their teams only and not the whole iOS. They are not the same. They lost their way and maybe need a year or so of a break from baiting us with stuff that never materializes. For once in many years I may skip the phone upgrade.

At least when I see stuttering on my 16Pro, I can blame its old age. But would be pissed if it happened on a new 17Pro model.

That’s just my opinion.
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On a positive note, at least they aren't pushing stickers and emojis like with previous OS versions when you really knew the OS was getting stale when those were noteworthy mentions lol.
 
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