At least the RC will have all the battery optiisations and bugging stuff taken out so the phone will last a day.
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iOS 26 Beta Testing Likely Complete After Apple Seeds Beta 8
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I've got used to it and rather like it now.
Haven't used it but just seeing the stuff here, I'm hoping it can be bypassed completely. Reminds me of Windows Vista. Just squint at the iOS 26 logo and it's just blob of nothingness. A UI based on that aesthetic will be an eye strain and should be nixed.
What bothers me is that this corner radius is not changed when using small windows. Bad design.
I will be telling everyone to not update. I won't be rolling this or Tahoe out at work and will hold strong on Sequoia and iOS 18 until they're unsupported. I am in disbelief this could be close to GM. I am contemplating Android at this point and I would have never even thought that. The direction Apple is taking, the awful catch up game they're playing. Step outside that reality distortion field...
I find iPadOS not really that useful with it being artificially hampered to stop device cannibalisation.
Welcome to Apple's Vista moment.
To top it off my battery is extremely poor on 16 Pro...this used to finish the day on 60%...now it's done by 16:00..and the phone was miss sold on the promise of contextual AI.
I find iPadOS not really that useful with it being artificially hampered to stop device cannibalisation.
Welcome to Apple's Vista moment.
To top it off my battery is extremely poor on 16 Pro...this used to finish the day on 60%...now it's done by 16:00..and the phone was miss sold on the promise of contextual AI.
Its stable for me, but still this far along I'm seeing roughly half the battery life of 18.6
Still many performance issues. Apps restart way more often. And if you happen to use Carplay with and your phone, e.g. Safari (if you're the passenger), then the system gets really slow, even background playing with Spotify stutter, at some point everything crashes.
And there is some other bugs here and there, e.g. with the reduced transparency when moving the cursor, the bubble is completely opaque, instead of having "reduced transparency"...
And there is some other bugs here and there, e.g. with the reduced transparency when moving the cursor, the bubble is completely opaque, instead of having "reduced transparency"...
Oh, testing came to an end months ago. Apple hasn’t responded to feedback the whole cycle. They are just trickling out internal alphas as betas and ignoring the whole process.
First party or third party apps? Keep in mind third party apps haven't been able to release iOS26 compatible versions yet
This is completely off topic to the discussion of iOS26 Beta 8 and just points to you having an overall gripe against Apple.
People on the internet are nowadays mostly about ranting for the most part. The beta is running extremely fine for me too.
What device are you on and which apps are you seeing frequent restarts with? I haven’t had a single app restart since B3, not counting an app I run through TestFlight that’s technically itself a beta which has restarted once.
Mostly third party, but I don't think this i related to supporting the liquid glass UI. Instead I believe that Liquid UI takes a LOT of RAM, which requires to "kill" background apps. So the apps have to restart when switching back.
E.g. you start an action on an App, then go to Safari, then in another App, then back to the original one, but the App restarted so you have to restart your action, and maybe lost some content (e.g. some text in a form).
In iOS 18, this was almost never happening, but iOS 26 made this a real issue.
It seems that "reducing transparency" somehow workaround this issue. But has some issues on its own.
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You mean the entire UI. It constantly struggles with light on dark and dark on light shifts, losing itself and delivering dark on dark or vice versa. The parts that do work are janky af. Nothing in the UI has improved past beta 2. So I guess this is it 🤪
Apple doing some serious vibe coding!
Well all the bugs I reported are still present in beta 8, with only one being acknowledged in the feedback app.
Hopefully these will be mopped up in the RC... But more likely will be fixed by 26.6 in a year's time if we're lucky.
I admit most of my bugs are cosmetic, but they all centre around new features so they should work reliably.
Hopefully these will be mopped up in the RC... But more likely will be fixed by 26.6 in a year's time if we're lucky.
I admit most of my bugs are cosmetic, but they all centre around new features so they should work reliably.
I hope they break the trend and do another beta update, with more refinements to Liquid Glass. While it's slightly better in OS than macOS, it still needs a lot of work.
I'd be shocked if this beta is declared GM; I downloaded the latest public beta yesterday afternoon and just encountered a new bug this morning. Oddly enough, it appears that Apple not only anticipated this bug, but provided for on-the-spot bug reports without needing to actively open the Feedback Assistant; I doubt that I would have even realized that the bug had happened, otherwise. (Seems it was something to do with audio, based upon the files that it captured and automatically attached to the report.)
I'm thinking we'll see at least one more beta.
I'm thinking we'll see at least one more beta.
So much for ending at Beta eight. iOS 26 beta nine was released today funny that no one has an article about it.
Apple today provided developers with iOS 26 beta 8, which means that beta testing is likely coming to an end. Apple typically only seeds eight developer betas of an iOS update before the software gets a final launch.
Apple did not go beyond eight betas for iOS 18, iOS 17, iOS 16, iOS 15, iOS 14, or iOS 13. Way back in 2018, iOS 12 did have a ninth beta, a tenth beta, an eleventh beta, and a twelfth beta, but no other new versions of iOS have been updated as frequently ahead of a planned September launch date.
With iOS 18, Apple released the eighth beta on August 28, and there were no subsequent betas. Since the eighth iOS 26 beta came on August 25, the timing is similar.
Apple could always deviate from its testing cycle and throw in another beta if there are still major bugs to be worked out, but Apple software engineers are likely focused on getting the iOS 26 release candidate ready. There were no major changes found in the eighth beta of iOS 26, and we are still waiting on the final public beta.
Ahead of when iOS 26 sees an official launch in September, Apple will provide a finalized release candidate as the last testing step. If Apple follows its past pattern, we'll get the release candidate for iOS 26 just after the September iPhone event.
Rumors suggest Apple will hold this year's iPhone event on September 9, so the release candidate would be made available on that date. iOS launches typically happen a few days before new iPhone models come out. Apple often holds iPhone pre-orders on the Friday after an event, and then the next Friday is the official launch date. So iPhone pre-orders will likely be on September 12, with a launch on September 19. With that timeline, iOS 26 will launch to the public sometime between September 15 and September 17.
We are also not expecting to see any additional betas of iPadOS 26, macOS Tahoe, tvOS 26, visionOS 26, and watchOS 26 before the release candidates come out on iPhone event day.
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