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iOS 26 Beta Testing Likely Complete After Apple Seeds Beta 8

Makes sense. If the rumored keynote is the week of the 8th, that’s two-ish weeks away and they aren’t releasing more betas.
 
danmills said:
Is it usual to have 2 weeks between Beta 8 & the RC? If it is usually 1 week, perhaps the iPhone announcement will happen on Sept 3, with pre-orders on Sept 5?
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Yes, there's usually a two-week gap between the last beta and RC.

My guess (based on last year's timeline)...

8-Sept: Apple event; RC released
12-Sept: iPhone pre-orders
15-Sept: iOS 26 released to public
19-Sept: iPhone released
 
macduke said:
Anyone else still not care for liquid glass? I’ve been running it on my iPad Pro and I still can’t get used to it. To me it looks even worse on the Mac screenshots I’ve seen. I might keep it off my Mac just for that reason. At least for as long as I can stand it as they add new features in the future. Idk.
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I hate it. Especially the faux reactive borders on everything like the Home Screen icons. Absolutely pedestrian and obnoxious given how light works in the real world. If they couldn’t make the reflections adapt to the screen as a whole, they should have just scrapped the concept.

Apple design team has been a colossal let down for a while now. Pretty much since COVID really.
 
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Etc_ said:
If Android were run by literally any company other than Google, I’d seriously consider switching ecosystems at this point.
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Same. At this point I think I like much better Android UI than iOS Liquid Glass, and I’d gladly switch ecosystem if it wasn’t because of Google.

I mean, it’s fun to see the change on the interface at first, but that’s it. Like you said, it’s a waste of resources from our now powerful devices. And personally I agree it looks a bit dated, and it’s just been released! We’ll see how dated does it feel in 3 years.
 
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I cannot mark all texts as read. The "Read All" button does nothing. Though it's still possible to tap on individual unread messages and mark those as read.
 
Boeingfan said:
Otherwise written as 'Apple didn't go beyond eight betas for iOS 13-18' 😄

I'm hoping this won't be the end of the iOS 26 betas given there's still many issues outstanding. For customers to find 'it just works' I would expect the 'automix, visual corruption of buttons and symbols on iPads', 'clock, notifications, and other elements might not display', and the multiple known issues in maps, to be fixed prior to release to the public, or at least for the workarounds to somehow be shown in the released software. If these issues exist AND the issues are known AND the workarounds are not provided to the end user, then it presents a pretty poor user experience.

If someone bought a Tesla and it just took a sharp left into a tree because of a known issue, you'd expect the driver to be offered a workaround to avoid or at least manage said tree event. Having said that, rebooting after said tree event may prove fruitless 😄

Yes I know people won't die because of iOS issues, but hey, it's all relative, and with the premium cost of iPhones and their ever increasing breadth and cost of subscriptions, and the increasing number of 'US only' features, well, you get my point. Surely doing better is an option.

Overall, though, I like iOS 26 thus far.
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Good post. And regarding the bolded part...you never know.
 
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iPadOS 18 needed at least two more betas. How they missed all those crashes in Safari in particular is a mystery. All the way back to the log-in screen, and they Never Noticed?

I won't be bleeding for them this time.
 
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macduke said:
Anyone else still not care for liquid glass? I’ve been running it on my iPad Pro and I still can’t get used to it. To me it looks even worse on the Mac screenshots I’ve seen. I might keep it off my Mac just for that reason. At least for as long as I can stand it as they add new features in the future. Idk.
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I'll hold off on both iOS & macOS until I see some screenshots of how much "reduce transparancy" can tame the liquid glass effect. If it doesn't improve the legibility a lot I'll probably just stay on iOS 18 & macOS 15.
 
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August West said:
I'll hold off on both iOS & macOS until I see some screenshots of how much "reduce transparancy" can tame the liquid glass effect. If it doesn't improve the legibility a lot I'll probably just stay on iOS 18 & macOS 15.
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IMO iOS 26 and macOS 26 work alright and are both tolerable with Reduce Transparency/High Contrast/Reduce Motion enabled. Still have some glitches and niggles to have worked out, though.
 
Populus said:
Same. At this point I think I like much better Android UI than iOS Liquid Glass, and I’d gladly switch ecosystem if it wasn’t because of Google.
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iOS and macOS UI was perfectly fine before this glass. Literally no one but Apple wanted this change. And they didn’t even do a good job 🤷‍♂️
 
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csalm87 said:
I have it on my Mac and the only thing that really bothers me is the obnoxious radius of the window corners and the size of the window controls. If they just had a setting that allowed us to adjust the size it would be great.
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They are so bug they scream to be touched.

Radiou works on iPad OS and iOS not so well on Finder Windows.
 
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