iOS 26 Beta 8 ― Bug Fixes, Changes, and Improvements

[Artemiz]

None of them have been that large. If you can get to storage quickly enough you’ll see the actual size. Very small compared to what’s shown in the update. It’s assumed to be a bug. Regardless each one downloads very quickly and installs just as fast. Only my initial 26 install took any time.

It’s not a bug.
Your phone downloads more files than a binary with the exact changes specific to your device config. Once the extraction is complete all the redundant files are discarded so what you see in the storage is the final delta that’s actually applied during the update process. It’s how it’s been done for as long as I can remember.

 

[ttam110]

Anyone else toggle Wifi on and off in Settings and NOT see the liquid glass effect? I see Liquid Glass effect when tapped on every single toggle except wifi?

edit- nvm see this a known issue, filed a report

 

[ttam110]

Safari stutters aren’t fixed yet… ughhh

Same with tapping new mail icon

 

[StumpyBloke]

Anyone else toggle Wifi on and off in Settings and NOT see the liquid glass effect? I see Liquid Glass effect when tapped on every single toggle except wifi?

edit- nvm see this a known issue, filed a report

Already mentioned above.

 

[kasolbe]

Call screening still missing for me and have been for many betas now.

 

[DDustiNN]

Anyone else toggle Wifi on and off in Settings and NOT see the liquid glass effect? I see Liquid Glass effect when tapped on every single toggle except wifi?

edit- nvm see this a known issue, filed a report

Same. And same with alarm toggles.

It’s weird that that’s not a system-wide animation for that control.

 

[sbassios]

Still the ipad problem with the keyboard when you choose windowed apps not showing keyboard input

 

[thatJohann]

Messages backgrounds still randomly disappear lol

 

[maika1305]

Every visual bug (around 10 bug reports) I’ve encountered on beta 7 is still there on beta 8. Can’t see anything new in this one unfortunately.

Same case for me. I haven't seen any existing bugs that were left hanging in Developer Beta 7 addressed in Developer Beta 8 yet

 

[zilchfox]

On iPad, the background on the welcome screen looks low quality - I guess some rendering issue.

On the iPhone, I didn’t get the welcome screen at all.

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It was like this on previous betas, too.

 

[Parowdy]

About 10 GB on my 16PM.

1.2 GB on my 15P. Where are you at? Germany at my end.

 

[Cobold]

At the homescreen, tilt your iPhone a bit to see the shimmery/glassy effect around the app-icons move.
Then scroll to another homescreen page and back to the previous one. Then wait a second.
You‘ll see ALL the glassy outlines around ALL icons and around the doc disappear and reappear again. Like pulsing out and in again.

It’s completely reproducible as long as you once have seen the shimmery/glassy animation move by tilting your phone.

In my video, look at the fitness-app or watch-app icon as it is visible best because the icons are dark. Or look at the dock. You‘ll clearly see it.

Man, all those little visual glitches are really taking all the joy out of iOS 26. I really do like the new design, but the lack of attention for detail is just shocking! ☹️

 

[Mikepeer]

yeah this captures the issue I was talking about.

only way to not have glitchy app icons when opening and closing apps is to use the default homescreen bright theme or the default dark icons theme.

Any other combo (like clear icons theme or tinted icons theme) and it's glitch city.

if you’re having light icons that’s better. Dark is very glitching

 

[Kylo83]

What are they actually fixing in each beta; so far all the bugs u have are still here; the whole liquid glass thing is a mess and this proves it, it’s like they just started working on it since beta 1 not the whole year

 

[cale508]

At the homescreen, tilt your iPhone a bit to see the shimmery/glassy effect around the app-icons move.
Then scroll to another homescreen page and back to the previous one. Then wait a second.
You‘ll see ALL the glassy outlines around ALL icons and around the doc disappear and reappear again. Like pulsing out and in again.

It’s completely reproducible as long as you once have seen the shimmery/glassy animation move by tilting your phone.

In my video, look at the fitness-app or watch-app icon as it is visible best because the icons are dark. Or look at the dock. You‘ll clearly see it.

Man, all those little visual glitches are really taking all the joy out of iOS 26. I really do like the new design, but the lack of attention for detail is just shocking! ☹️

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That's been like that for many betas. i thought people noticed it.

 

[Cobold]

That's been like that for many betas. i thought people noticed it.

I jumped the beta train only with beta 6 and noticed it right away. So I filed a bugreport.

And I really thought people AT APPLE noticed it. And do something to fix it. But at that point, I say it‘ll make it into the final release, as well as the popping outline of app-icons on closure.
It‘ll be like that in the release version as well as on the shiny new 17-series.
Attention for details seems something that‘s not „a thing“ at Apple these days. ☹️

 

[crobcary]

OK, so, before I update from DB7—is the app-opening animation slower again, or is it still fast? I appreciated the quickness of the last two builds and I'll skip this one if it's slowed down again. Running on 16 Pro, always installing via IPSW, FWIW.

 

[COBRASVT]

App icons still are missing sometimes and take a while to redraw...sigh.

Samething with the icons in the settings....

I've been dealing with this for the last 3 betas. Every time I switch from light to dark and/or back, they all have to redraw. Sometimes, they do it for no reason, but always when changing light dark modes.

 

[maika1305]

Perhaps DB8 is more of a stability update then? More like under-the-hood improvements (hopefully battery life improvement included).

Because it looks like there's no visible changes made to address UI bugs

 

[Paddle1]

It sounds like there are a lot of bugs to address in the RC. Surely Apple wants to make a good first impression for users with the final release.

 

[sbailey4]

if you’re having light icons that’s better. Dark is very glitching

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Not seeing what you are referring to thats "very glitchy". Watched several times..

 

[archvile]

So true. This is still one of the most annoying effects with the new design. It seems that they haven’t figured out a solution so far.
In my opinion they could simply remove it. It looks cheap in my eyes and this pop-in makes it even worse.

What’s weird is clear icons don’t do this as their icon draws with a prefixed glass border and adjusts itself once the icon comes to rest. Dark mode icons draw with no glass border and the immediate pop in of the border is very jarring. Light mode icons you can’t really tell

 

[dmccombs]

At the homescreen, tilt your iPhone a bit to see the shimmery/glassy effect around the app-icons move.
Then scroll to another homescreen page and back to the previous one. Then wait a second.
You‘ll see ALL the glassy outlines around ALL icons and around the doc disappear and reappear again. Like pulsing out and in again.

It’s completely reproducible as long as you once have seen the shimmery/glassy animation move by tilting your phone.

In my video, look at the fitness-app or watch-app icon as it is visible best because the icons are dark. Or look at the dock. You‘ll clearly see it.

Man, all those little visual glitches are really taking all the joy out of iOS 26. I really do like the new design, but the lack of attention for detail is just shocking! ☹️

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Well at least the Apple Intelligence is working really good. Oh wait, never mind. 🤣

 

[supergt]

It sounds like there are a lot of bugs to address in the RC. Surely Apple wants to make a good first impression for users with the final release.

You must be new here. Apple has released buggy iOS initial release versions going back to the debacle that was iOS 11. Maybe even longer than that!

 

[teeshot44]

Call screening still missing for me and have been for many betas now.

Region setting must match language setting. iPhone 14 or newer. Ai dependent and carrier must support the feature.