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

[TimFL1]

Not on my 15PM, it's still there if you pull down

It’s definitely gone on my 16 Pro…

I also can‘t get it to show up anymore. Is the coloring at least fixed (it had light text in light mode for me, making the content barely readable).

Still dealing with icon redraws when swiping homescreens. Sigh.

Happened shortly after updating, has recovered now and no icon redraws anymore.


Hurry up Apple, push the change notes …

 

[zach-coleman]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1952791768300486710

Can they add an option to make Spatial default to Video instead of Photo too then? Spatial Photos are in function a dead format at this point, no idea why they're still the default in Spatial mode.

 

[s2mike]

Still have it on my 16PM

Weird. Now I’m terrified to restart my phone and have it return…

I’m pulling down and it just never appears.

 

[batting1000]

Still some dropped frames here and there on my 16PM, but overall noticeably smoother, especially the home screen.

 

[DDustiNN]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1952791768300486710

That’s good, because it felt completely backwards for some reason.

 

[Roctavious]

It’s definitely gone on my 16 Pro…

Did you pull down? It's that way on my 15PM and 16PM.

 

[Fontvnilla]

Animations seem smoother than the B4 revision. But scrolling on Safari still seems jittery at times. Also, is this Game Mode banner new?

 

[jdavid_rp]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1952791768300486710

Does this setting really need a toggle? I think it should be the same for everyone as you may let someone take your phone to take a pic and has a 50% chance of having a small confusion with which way to slide for a video or a portrait. Also it's a beta so its not like many people got already used to this new UI to have to think about them.

Btw, seems it needs some time to change, after toggling and closing the app it wouldn't change until a few mins later.

 

[Simacca]

Stuttering in all the same places for me. Maybe slightly better, but not by much. Yes I know that files are indexing, but I don’t hold out much hope. 16 pro.

 

[Simacca]

Still dealing with icon redraws when swiping homescreens. Sigh.

Same here. Mainly the bookmark icons

 

[H3LL5P4WN]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1952791768300486710

Yeah but the shutter button and mode switcher are still in the wrong place.

 

[s2mike]

Real cool animation when you lock the phone while playing music — the album art slides up from the bottom of the lock screen. Very slick.

 

[H3LL5P4WN]

Same here. Mainly the bookmark icons

It’s all my apps.

 

[s2mike]

Did you pull down? It's that way on my 15PM and 16PM.

Yes. It’s not there for me. It’s also not there on my friend’s 16 Pro who is sitting right next to me.

Very odd that it’s still showing up for some people but not others. I always hated it so I’m thrilled that it’s gone. Feedback closed.

 

[yeahtyeaht]

Real cool animation when you lock the phone while playing music — the album art slides up from the bottom of the lock screen. Very slick.

could you upload a video?

 

[Roctavious]

I also can‘t get it to show up anymore. Is the coloring at least fixed (it had light text in light mode for me, making the content barely readable).


Happened shortly after updating, has recovered now and no icon redraws anymore.


Hurry up Apple, push the change notes …

On my 16PM I sometimes have to pull down twice. 15PM once and it seems to stay there unless I push up. 16PM sometimes hides it if go out of messages and then come back. In light mode it looks good to me

 

[yeahtyeaht]

iOS 26 Beta 5 makes switching tabs in Control Center feel more bouncy.

https://bsky.app/profile/betaprofiles.com/post/3lvod2smdo22p

 

[Gibson88]

Are the low res icons fixed? For example, messages, phone, music and AppStore?

If someone could provide a screenshot that would be great.

 

[Pudlo]

Does this setting really need a toggle? I think it should be the same for everyone as you may let someone take your phone to take a pic and has a 50% chance of having a small confusion with which way to slide for a video or a portrait. Also it's a beta so its not like many people got already used to this new UI to have to think about them.

Btw, seems it needs some time to change, after toggling and closing the app it wouldn't change until a few mins later.

it is pretty complicated and problematic bc there are two different logic to it:
-a button is a button and to scroll you swipe to the next button
but
-for years Apple was pushing swiping pages in the opposite direction, it is present for swiping tabs in Safari, and in camera app you can swipe in the center of the screen and not in the buttons area, from that perspective opposite direction and swiping pages makes more sense
at the end it is all about your brain and if you see swiping those damn buttons as pages or just as buttons.
I think the toggle is a good workaround.

 

[jdclifford]

No one has updated the wiki-post yet. Beta 4 firmware for the 16e was 1.50.75-6.2.

Can tell you in 10 Minutes what’s the firmware in beta 5.

beta 5 on my 16e has 2.00.04

 

[hovscorpion12]

This frame-rate jitter/stutter appears to be very annoying. [based on user reports] Especially when we're 30 days from OS release and new phone release.

Beta 6 next week must be the definitive fix. Otherwise this is the most insane forced obsolete i've ever seen.

 

[lancastor]

HomeScreen ProMotion stuttering is nearly fixed in Beta 5. 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

 

[john991]

My gosh, phone is indexing after updating. Wait till tomorrow before judging

 

[styxrtp]

Yes. It’s not there for me. It’s also not there on my friend’s 16 Pro who is sitting right next to me.

Very odd that it’s still showing up for some people but not others. I always hated it so I’m thrilled that it’s gone. Feedback closed.

It showed up for me, I decided to toggle the share name and photo option and got it to go away. Its possible you're already sharing your name and photo?

 

[mariuskv]

This frame-rate jitter/stutter appears to be very annoying. [based on user reports] Especially when we're 30 days from OS release and new phone release.

Beta 6 next week must be the definitive fix. Otherwise this is the most insane forced obsolete i've ever seen.

For me so far no problems whatsoever. Had it really bad on beta 4