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iOS 26 Beta 8 ― Bug Fixes, Changes, and Improvements
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I'll tell you what isn't fixed. The third party keyboard integration. There's some extra space there. It looks like an abomination.
Exhibit A. SwiftKey versus stock keyboard.
I drew an outline around the extra space. This was not an issue before iOS 26. All keyboards fit nicely into the keyboard "area".
Exhibit A. SwiftKey versus stock keyboard.
I drew an outline around the extra space. This was not an issue before iOS 26. All keyboards fit nicely into the keyboard "area".
I think it would be way too small of an area to display most titles. Perhaps that’s why they changed it? Even with just one button, it’s still ever so slightly faded on the right side and auto-scrolls:Not when it collapses when you scroll. In the demo the skip button persisted
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Do you think Apple with iOS 26 Dev Beta 8 will feature a change in Liquid Glass?www.threads.com
The address bar in Safari is a little buggy with the Liquid Glass
The issue is functionality is lost. I’m always in Music and Podcasts wanting to jab that button that we’ve all got familiar with over the past 5+ iOS releases. And now it’s regualrly not there. I think if they lost the album art that would work usability wise.
I love the rest of the OS but this really is bad and a continual annoyance if you’ve been running the betas.
Apple never promised you a personal concierge. If you're reporting things that other people have reported, why would you expect a personalized reply?
That's if you had an older version of the ChatGPT app installed, 'Get' would say 'Update'...basically like it does in the App Store. But that has nothing to do with what version the Siri integration uses anyway. ChatGPT through Siri is still using GPT-4. It doesn't matter if you have the app installed or not.
Might be that you have to “Get” it before you can update it. But then it will probably be the most recent version 5 when you get it.
Everything is more or less that way now. The whole user interface is basically thick frosted transparency. There’s little to no glass effects left anyplace. Inconsistent and weird, sloppy, bad design.
I think this beta being such a small version bump was just to address the zero day exploits that they released with the most recent softwares on stable channel. Everything seems the same, hopefully they will either have one more beta or the RC will address all of the visual bugs. The Home Screen icon one just kills me, how can Apple not notice that
I certainly have thanks for asking !
I noticed some of those glitches and bugs you guys referring to, but I think it will be ironed out (hopefully), just fingers crossed
RC always usually has UI bug fixes and changes. They wouldn’t let the iOS 18 wallpaper be in 26 RC. It may be a long two weeks till we get it, but as long as my phone feels stable, nothing crashes, battery is long, I should be fine waiting. I’m looking forward to see what the final version looks like.
This beta is lightning fast on my 15PM. Feels better than beta 7 for sure. And phone doesn’t get warm.
I think they reduced the frost a bit on this new beta. They didn’t bring back any glossiness or glass effect, but the frost is ever so slightly more transparent in this one, IMO. Barely noticeable but I think my notification banners are more translucent. Could be losing my mind.
I think there's some confusion going on, but please correct me if I'm misunderstanding something.
People here are asking which version of ChatGPT Siri/Apple Intelligence uses when making requests, which is still GPT-4 (at least it is on my iPad using the latest beta). Using ChatGPT via Siri does not use the ChatGPT app, nor does it require the app to be installed. The ChatGPT app itself will use GPT-5 and has nothing to do with iOS 26. The app can use GPT-5 on iOS 17 and 18 as well.
What does it say when you tell Siri to ask ChatGPT what model it's using? Post a screenshot of the response ChatGPT gives Siri, like the request I've done here.
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Typing accuracy and auto correct are better with the iOS 26 keyboard for sure. Much more accurate
iPad floating keyboard becomes unusable in 3rd party apps until you select a different keyboard and then go back until it happens again.
You mean the Photo Booth app? It's still there on the iPad and was never on the iPhone.
There's a noticeable delay when swiping from the Home Screen to applications drawer on my M1 iPad Pro. It's so consistent that it almost feels like it's by design. Does anyone else experience that?
I think you misread the double negative. He's saying that 98% of what he's reporting has no similar reports, yet he only got a response on less than 1% of them.
I have the same issue on a 2018 Pro. I don’t think it’s by design but I’m not sure it shouldn’t have been fixed by this time.
Battery life (drain) on the 16 Pro is back to beta 6 (rev2) good, thanks Craig.
After each beta update, the celluar option would always switch back to 5G Auto, even if I have always set it to 4G only, strange.
After each beta update, the celluar option would always switch back to 5G Auto, even if I have always set it to 4G only, strange.
