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iOS 26 Beta 8 ― Bug Fixes, Changes, and Improvements
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Me too thinking that the RC will be better than this beta now.
I think I’m going to stay in my B7 bubble until RC lol and would probably hop off beta for a while. It’s been fun testing since iOS 8 🫡
14P here, first time installing this beta, and there’s one weird animation that might be a fairly unique use case. I have “raise to wake” disabled, and when I want to unlock, I just swipe up on the always-on display. Previously this worked like any other unlock, but with this beta, it shows the passcode screen briefly before doing a FaceID unlock.
Does anyone else use the Today View?
I'm not able to create stacks by sliding widgets on top of each other. I can do it elsewhere then drag the entire stack to that page, but can't on the page itself. Feedback is a standard "none" and "open" which means no-one has looked at it, but it could just be me 😁
I'm not able to create stacks by sliding widgets on top of each other. I can do it elsewhere then drag the entire stack to that page, but can't on the page itself. Feedback is a standard "none" and "open" which means no-one has looked at it, but it could just be me 😁
Ready to eat your words when this is fixed and not an issue anymore?
In general, an (system) app that simply ignores the user preferenced silent mode isn’t a good sell. Especially when it’s supposed to sell. This would only make the voices in the rest of the world louder to allow third party stores like in the EU, not a very desirable outcome.
Not everything is intentional, not everything is a conspiracy.
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Went the opposite route. Downloaded (and hated) it in the beginning, went back to 18, and back again on the beta train with beta 3. Been miserable ever since 😄 just wanted to get ahead of September, should have spent the remaining time with 18 when i still had the chance
Edit: i have to thank iOS 26 for the lower case i, what is up with that?
Watching ads before or during a video or movie is really not a new thing.
You’re getting ahead of yourself i think.
Definitely. Had way, way too many lengthy software downloads just corrupt shortly before completion using Finder or iTunes to download them.
No, it's not just you. Editing and adding widgets to create stacks on the Today screen is a cluster****. Like you, the only way I could make it work was to create the stack on a normal page and drag the stack to the Today screen.
Idk boys, I just installed iOS 26. It’s laggy…plus I don’t see anything really new that matters. This is lip stick on a pig.
I am on the latest developer beta on my work iPad 9th generation and actually have very few complaints. Battery life is solid, perhaps even better than 18. I do occasionally get the bouncing keyboard bug when it is minimized. In general, I like transparency, so the new design language doesn't bother me. Also, I am glad they found the processing power to allow multiple app windows on such "old" devices. Can't innovate my a$$. 
Am probably late on this, but seems I can run apps in orientation now on the iPad, instead of some being forced landscape or portrait.
Wait a min, iOS now has multistream audio. Took all of 20 years to implement. God damn this is a QoL thing. The amount of times your music stops because of a random Reddit video…
Does anyone feel like the voice to text is wonky? I've been using it a lot and i've had to go back and make so many corrections compared to before the beta.
I'm thinking it's a bug. It didn't play sound on beta 7 and it doesn't play sound on iOS 18.6.2. Even with sound on or in silent mode it didn't play with volume. And yes both phones have and always had Video Autoplay ON. It caught me off guard today as well. Either way I hope they fix it.
Check in Settings > General > Screen Capture. If it's checked on SDR, switch it to HDR. That worked for me. I had put it out on the beta 6 thread.
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Check in Settings > General > Screen Capture. If it's checked on SDR, switch it to HDR. That worked for me.
On my 15PM, the changes from b7 to b8 are much smaller than the changes from any previous iOS 26 betas. To me, it feels like very little time and effort was put into improving beta 8 over beta 7.
At this late stage in the beta process, maybe they’re focusing on under the hood things, tightening up the code, squeezing out a bit more battery life.
But I’m not seeing any improvements in performance or battery life or anything else in beta 8.
Not that b7 was bad.
I’m holding out hope that the RC will be a big leap forward. We’ll probably have to wait two weeks for that. 😕
At this late stage in the beta process, maybe they’re focusing on under the hood things, tightening up the code, squeezing out a bit more battery life.
But I’m not seeing any improvements in performance or battery life or anything else in beta 8.
Not that b7 was bad.
I’m holding out hope that the RC will be a big leap forward. We’ll probably have to wait two weeks for that. 😕
I surmise you did not file a feedback to let Apple know that, in comparison with your iPad Mini, the network stack of your iPhone 15 Pro Max struggled in certain situations.