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iOS 26 Beta 5 ― Bug Fixes, Changes, and Improvements
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You have a white back ground with the background on the lightest setting and light clear apps. You don’t have to set it like that.
That was just ridiculous. I wish there was a way to totally remove that childish garbage off my phone. I get it maybe fun for some but the amount of hoopla around it made me cringe. 😬
Oh, also though of one more stupid design choice. When you want to include a photo or something else in a text message, you get this absolutely terrible picker list. Nowhere else in iOS it looks so bad. Why not fix it?
Make it look like the one in mail app. Less loud, less bloated.
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Still VERY readable.
I think the point he and others are making that distracting is a different complaint than illegible. I think you have a valid point, it IS distracting with the busy background, but it is also very legible.
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It honestly feels like apple has various teams working on different aspects and they never get together to see what the other is doing so we get this mismash of random things in every app (and the worst offenders are the in house apple apps). Like why not bounce ideas off eachother between teams so there is some consistency. IOS is a hot mess.
Apple will 100% release a buggy x.0 version of iOS 26 at the start of the week the iPhone 17 launches, pre-installed on said devices. Let's not kid ourselves or be delusional ahaha.
That’s what it feels like. BUT, don’t they have their own iPhones that they can look at after release or few years after release and say to themselves or their bosses that these inconsistencies do not look good. But who are we to dictate to Apple 🍎. I understand it’s a very large and complicated software, but there should be a new position at Apple called Application Consistency Compliance Officer. That would look at software and call out all inconsistencies across the iOS. I am willing to volunteer for that position. I am also sure a few of us here would make a fine ACC team.
First thing I noticed is Mail now have the select separated from the menu
Changing your lock screen wallpaper affects the tint of your home screen icons.
I mean, those sliders and options look the same to me, yet one set of icons has a nice blue tint and the other is mostly gray still.
One lock screen has a converted to spatial wallpaper, the other has the depth effect (if that matters).
I mean, those sliders and options look the same to me, yet one set of icons has a nice blue tint and the other is mostly gray still.
One lock screen has a converted to spatial wallpaper, the other has the depth effect (if that matters).
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I thought that's what they do, because Apple is so afraid of leaks that they separate each team and only combine the work in the end release.
That is probably true, but all those developers and managers can take a look at their own phones after the release and see all the inconsistencies that they have created. Couldn’t post Delivery team get together and look at all these inconsistencies that have been created and address them.
Just seems like nobody cares about that.
Wow, battery life is truly amazing on the 16 Pro --- a beautiful small phone used to be crippled by battery life.
At least under my routine use, from 1100 to 2400, the battery has still 54% left and that is truly amazing because I have used in above 35 centigrade heat on 5G Advanced network with frequent messaging and social network browsing, and that I have used it to take some photos (be it within a chat app, or use the Camera app). But I had AOD off, in previous iOS either the iOS18 or the iOS26 betas, AOD off only slightly helped with standby, but the juice went just the same between OS builds, FYI.
At least under my routine use, from 1100 to 2400, the battery has still 54% left and that is truly amazing because I have used in above 35 centigrade heat on 5G Advanced network with frequent messaging and social network browsing, and that I have used it to take some photos (be it within a chat app, or use the Camera app). But I had AOD off, in previous iOS either the iOS18 or the iOS26 betas, AOD off only slightly helped with standby, but the juice went just the same between OS builds, FYI.
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When I want to send a pictures or video in iMessage, I just hold down the + icon and avoid that UI altogether.
With the menu in Messages it does behave differently. You can rearrange menu items for example when you hold down, and it's also a home to Messages mini apps. Essentially it's a app launcher so I can see why they want it to look visually distinct from a normal menu such as the one in Mail.
Then again I do think it could be a bit less padded and also would be nice if it provided a way to uninstall/remove Messages apps you don't want.
It's probably been mentioned if it's a widespread issue, but does Weather keep asking for location permission for anyone else?
They could have tried to make it less ugly. 🤬
By clicking frantically on UI elements in the half second window between launching and crashing, I managed to escape the crash loop. It turns out Sidebar > Pinned > Media Types being expanded causes the app to crash for me. Collapsing it stabilized things.