iOS 26 Beta 9 ― Bug Fixes, Changes, and Improvements

[dannyyankou]

weird visual glitch on apple music. haven’t seen this on other betas

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It seems to only happen in light mode too.

 

[dwrufus53]

You guys forgot that they changed the whole design language !
It’s most likely like back in times where they released iOS 7 !
And it’s way better than this !
So keep calm and live with it for a while - it will most likely get fixed.
Somewhere in the future!
As many said already in 26.1 or so.

Love the “most likely” comment. What a cluster ****.

 

[James6s]

Installed onto my 16 Pro, still lightning fast and smooth 👌🏻

 

[Jumpie]

Well since the introduction of widgets they still haven’t fixed the one I’ve submitted each time. If you use the Moon Phase widget, at times the icon doesn’t match the description. They use a waxing icon 🌒 for waning phase which should be 🌘.

If anyone else wants to write it up here’s the ID: FB19834824 (Weather widget - Moon Phase icons are incorrect)

 

[ShaneSparkyYYZ]

Downloading. Have they fixed the bug where when you hold your finger down on text in Spotlight to bring up the magnifying glass loupe to select, that it glows so you can't see what you're selecting?

Fixed for me. Went from dev b8 to public b6. iPhone 15 Pro phone.

 

[ErneX]

Don’t get me wrong, I hope the UI glitches get ironed by release date. I also hate those small details not working as expected. My new iPhone is coming with this preinstalled.

But I love the overreactions on these threads. In my opinion some of you should just avoid these betas and wait for impressions on the final release to decide if you upgrade or not. Staying on iOS 18 is perfectly fine for a while (unless you buy a new phone of course 😂).

 

[Ament]

the rc won’t have major design changes

Yep but RC will bring some changes that will be officially announced during the event (or maybe they just unlocking in RC some of them). This is especially common in the case of watchOS, where they just cannot add for example a new watch faces to the betas in advance, because someone could spot them before the official event. Once they announce the changes, they can officially put them in RC and all that remains to us is to wait a two-three weeks for the new hardware.

 

[cannono]

Also like I said, it seems they’re just releasing the same Buggy beta since beta 7. Same file size and no visual bugs fixed.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1962937179833045149

I don’t think file size means they are wastefully pushing out betas with no changes.

 

[Kylo83]

Yep but RC will bring some changes that will be officially announced during the event (or maybe they just unlocking in RC some of them). This is especially common in the case of watchOS, where they just cannot add for example a new watch faces to the betas in advance, because someone could spot them before the official event. Once they announce the changes, they can officially put them in RC and all that remains to us is to wait a two-three weeks for the new hardware.

That doesn’t change the design tho; that’s final now

 

[Reeneman]

Mine too but the glassy outline popping in after app closure is driving me crazy and so killing all my good feelings about iOS 26 (like the speed-up app opening animations and the general look that I really like).


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How can everyone at Apple (exec-team?) not see that? I am 100% sure, that this ugly visual glitch will be exactly the same on aaaaaall shiny new 17-series out of the box.

That is exactly the lack of attention for detail that I hated for years on Android. Now Apple too seems to not give a single f*** about details. Woks somehow? Good to go! Looks like sh*t? Pfff, not wasting any time on it. Sad.

Do agree here. This is awful. Hopefully they found a solution in 26.1
Having no hope that we see a different animation in the 26 final.

 

[James6s]

FWIW public beta 6 has pushed up the performance benchmarks even further on my 16 Pro. The most sizeable difference in multi core points.

Public beta 6

Public beta 5

 

[dwrufus53]

I don’t think file size means they are wastefully pushing out betas with no changes.

I will ask again: WHAT DID THEY CHANGE?

 

[Eksoccer99]

I’m not having any issues on my 16 Pro Max

Me neither. Not seeing these effects. I think the apps are too turn black upon pressing/touching them, to show you that you clicked on it.

 

[archvile]

I will ask again: WHAT DID THEY CHANGE?

Well since iOS is closed source, there’s really no way to actually tell what’s been changed outside of visual bugs and general performance.

For all we know these last 3 betas have been tuning or playing with different thermal profiles or memory adjustments or some other performant value that we can’t immediately see.

And while they were running these last 3 betas (which may people have said have fixed nothing as far as visual glitches, and I agree), maybe they have been working on a different branch that will be the RC (with focus on visual polish) and they will merge in whichever of these last 3 betas performed the best on average across their product lineup.

Or hell these last 3 betas they could have been testing changes exclusive to the iPhone 17’s which is why we don’t see any difference outside of geek bench numbers and slight modem firmware versions.

TLDR; only Apple knows.

 

[xxFoxtail]

Search button still off center in landscape mode in the photos app.

Edit: Type to Siri's landscape interface is still squished too.

 

[hutzi20]

I’m using the Beta since DP4. And honestly I didn’t realize really the Liquid Glass expect from the Photos App and the Safari bar. But other things? The control center? It’s just semi transparent like everything others. I know that the lights ect are rendered in real time. But in most cases you didn’t realize it. For example the home screen icons with colors, not transparent. If they were static or not wouldn’t make any difference for me. In my opinion the whole Liquid Glass thing is just a huge marketing bubble to hide that there is zero progress with other developments

 

[GIZBUG]

3 months of beta testing and years of apple r and d and liquid glass ui the only real change of iOS 26 and it’s still buggy and not fully liquid glass everywhere. Apple messed up again and didn’t deliver, last 3 betas didn’t fix anything or change anything

Wait until 26.1. You'll be much happier

 

[akke4323]

My iPhone 16 is running quite cold at the moment, indicating that there are definitely some improvements. How is your phone’s thermal performance?

 

[rgarita]

I am surprised that many of you are surprised:
1- the real Apple, the Steve Jobs Apple, died with him
2- Tim is only milking the cow with no innovation in the last 10 years
3- Apple is 5 years behind OpenAi and Microsoft in AI (Real AI)
4- Liquid glass is just a poor distraction from their lack of creativity and innovation

That

 

[brian3uk]

I really hoped I was gonna like it by now, but liquid glass is just so ugly and adds nothing to the experience. And like why are the pop-up messages so big? It’s the giant volume change indicator all over again. I don’t understand what this design change was meant to accomplish.

 

[sbailey4]

Mine is fast and smooth

Same here

Mine too (16 Pro). I can't reproduce this app icon redraw thing that some are complaining about. iOS 26 has felt pretty much like a release version since beta 8. No CarPlay issues, either.

I think that only happens when using the glass icons not the standard or dark ones. I actually like the dark icons myself and don't use the tinted or clear ones. So I don't experience that issue myself.

Mine too but the glassy outline popping in after app closure is driving me crazy and so killing all my good feelings about iOS 26 (like the speed-up app opening animations and the general look that I really like).


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How can everyone at Apple (exec-team?) not see that? I am 100% sure, that this ugly visual glitch will be exactly the same on aaaaaall shiny new 17-series out of the box.

That is exactly the lack of attention for detail that I hated for years on Android. Now Apple too seems to not give a single f*** about details. Woks somehow? Good to go! Looks like sh*t? Pfff, not wasting any time on it. Sad.

I don't think that's a bug. More like the design they have chosen to look like glass icons. I actually like the effect myself. Its been that way from the start so I believe its intentional and will not be "fixed" since its not actually broken. Sorry

 

[marknemeth]

I am surprised that many of you are surprised:
1- the real Apple, the Steve Jobs Apple, died with him
2- Tim is only milking the cow with no innovation in the last 10 years
3- Apple is 5 years behind OpenAi and Microsoft in AI (Real AI)
4- Liquid glass is just a poor distraction from their lack of creativity and innovation

That

Lol

 

[Mlrollin91]

M1 iPad Pro and 16PM are definitely running better. Still have weird graphical bugs and missing icons on the home screen. Fingers crossed for that polished RC next week.

 

[Bolt1982]

Nice one, wasn't really happy with battery life of b8... something was off about it.

I noticed my battery running low not even a full day charge

 

[walterpaisley]

You can't look at the size of beta updates as an indicator of how much has changed. As has been noted here since the betas first began, the OTA update size can vary wildly, even within the same model. It's not like we get OTA builds that are just the changes – there are supporting files and whole frameworks etc. that can be bundled in.

The only way to know what's changed is if Apple posts the change log, which they do, right here: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/ios-ipados-release-notes/ios-ipados-26-release-notes