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iOS 26 Beta 8 ― Bug Fixes, Changes, and Improvements
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Also for me. I’ve notice that it’s getting warmer when I navigate on safari also the firmware ignore the battery limits and since I’ve installed this beta 8 always charges the phone up to 100% (and very very quick) compared to before.
... do not forget: all the beta still have the debug- option enabled during build, so the final release will show a significant performance bump with having that code removed
I don't think the new design is the problem, it's just that I don't like the design very much. It just doesn't look well thought out. There's no attention to detail. It's just a mix of the designs of iOS 18 and iOS 26. And here and there, they've done something to make it look different.
If I remember right this works since a while with Reddit. With other apps best music still stops. This depends on the app first of all.
I agree. Very inconsistent and feels like change for the sake of change.
None of the fixes that people posted worked for me.
Also kind of feels like it’s meant to be that way. Which is unfortunate.
Did you ever get it fixed?
I agree. Multiple windows probably works well on large iPads, but split screen is more usable on an 11”. I can’t imagine using multiple windows on a mini!
Yeah, what’s up with that?! I noticed that when I was testing on my iPad gen9. It’s still there in the current dev beta.
Do you have any notifications on screen? Mine dims when there are notifications, and brightens back to normal if I swipe them down off the screen. (Though I don’t use photos so I’m not sure if this is the same thing)
Maybe Apple put out on purpose this buggy beta 8 full of visual glitches, so that by the time RC hits and the visual glitches are fixed, then we will be impressed with how much they improved iOS 26 by the RC. LOL, wishful thinking, they prob won't fix the visual bugs in time.
LOL. Set the bar low and then they can easily exceed it. Interesting take.
Battery Life will get better once the RC & Final Release are out and all of the beta testing indexing stuff is removed. I'm not seeing a lot of the graphical glitches people are reporting, though. I would assume this is as good as it gets for now until we see iOS 26.1, they need one of the prior versions or even what we've got now so they can flash all the new phones coming in from over seas.
So it seems like this only happens when you have home screen icons set to clear.
Installed this beta for the first time on my 14 Pro yesterday, and while it’s worked pretty well overall, man is the unlock animation consistently janky. Tons of late “pop-in” of elements. Maybe it’s overall a little slow due to still indexing, but I’ve otherwise found animations and scrolling to be pretty smooth.
The beta has background logging and debugging turned on, and the other doesn't. It's not exactly fair to compare a beta build to a production build.
Since jumping on the beta (DP4 or 5), I've noticed that the Photos app pauses syncing between my iPhone 16 PM and my Mac running Sequoia (15.6.x). I can go into the phone and "resume syncing" and it syncs all outstanding photos, but subsequent photos don't sync as the syncing pauses again.
Has anyone experienced that behavior? Is it truly related to an ios26 / macOS 15.6 issue?
Has anyone experienced that behavior? Is it truly related to an ios26 / macOS 15.6 issue?
Nah, nothings fixed it for me unfortunately. I had to change photo shuffle to “tap” as a temp fix for now
Same here, did that on B7 also (showed the passcode keypad momentarily while unlocking phone using Face ID.
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