iOS 26, iPadOS 26, and macOS Tahoe Public Betas Launching in July

[uacd]

Thank you for your sacrifice. I'll keep my iPhone 11 Pro Max on iOS 17.7

Haha, the moment they showcased the new system and features I was like “Well well well, looks like iPhone 17 Pro is inevitable for me”. I believe my 11 Pro will work similarly to an iPhone 4 with iOS 7.

I too skipped 18 because of overly bad Photos app and also using 17 at the moment. Not sure whether I should run public beta, kinda afraid of those after once bricking my old 6s when reverting

 

[one more]

Because they don’t want all the complaining from naive users installing beta 1. It’s a huge risk installing these on a real phone that you depend upon. Next month the number of potential problems will be more acceptable.

Well, I don’t expect any “naive users” to install any betas on their main devices, though. In fact Apple explicitly warns people (both devs and public beta testers) not to install them on the devices they need to rely on.

Having said that, so far I find iOS26 quite underwhelming and needing more polishing (the UI), so just testing it in my spare iPhone 11 for now and nothing else.

 

[one more]

I think it needs to be toned down a bit, may be frosted glass.

I mean it looks cool but I wonder usability in the long run.

I find the search bar at the bottom of the Home Screen almost invisible now, trying it with Apple’s own weather background. Not a fan.

 

[Johnny907]

Given the absolute state of this OS, I’m waiting until PB 3 at least to try it because woof. The videos I’ve seen today are not encouraging, and discounting the usual lag you’d expect from a beta 1, this thing has some serious ironing out to do before it’s ready for my 44 year old eyes.

 

[AndiG]

what should I say? iOS 26, iPadOS 26, and macOS Talahon - aka macOS Vista or Aero 😂😂😂.
Please Apple, leave me alone with this transparent BS and floating transparent TabBars 🤮

 

[DrJR]

I probably won’t do the beta, as much as I’d love to see all the cool newness asap. Do we know the general release date window yet, by chance?

All I have to say is "remember september".

 

[Digital Dude]

I watched parts of the event, but it wasn’t an easy experience due to the corny and infantile format. On the bright side, the iPadOS looked promising, but unfortunately, there have been many instances where the hype surrounding the product seldom lives up. If the past is any indication, this new design is likely to be filled with bugs that will take years to resolve. Hopefully, I will eat my words. 🤞

 

[James_C]

Last year the initial developer release was reasonably stable for iOS and iPad OS. My initial take is this year it definitely feels like a beta release with various things not working as intended. So for anyone thinking of using on their main device, I would definitely hold off, the new UI appears to be causing a number of issues.

 

[jonblatho]

Well, I don’t expect any “naive users” to install any betas on their main devices, though. In fact Apple explicitly warns people (both devs and public beta testers) not to install them on the devices they need to rely on.

Having said that, so far I find iOS26 quite underwhelming and needing more polishing (the UI), so just testing it in my spare iPhone 11 for now and nothing else.

Well, yes. It’s a beta. 🤦🏻‍♂️

 

[SactoGuy18]

I hope that the public beta of iPadOS 26 comes out in the second week fo July 2025. The new windowing and menuing features is going to take some getting used to if you've never used recent versions of MacOS, in my opinion.

 

[Steve01234]

beta 1 is really ugly. either not enough contrast in light mode, or too much in dark mode. inconsistent border widths and radius with nested things. they also reset the system font size making it very small for high res screens running 1:1 pixels. BTW if you search for Font in system pref you can find the setting to sort of fix it. contrast is reversed in some places between UI objects. it looks very last minute slapped together for all the sloppiness, Steve J never would of let this out the door.

OTH so far so good its been stable otherwise, no driver problems.

 

[It’s always something]

it looks very last minute slapped together for all the sloppiness, Steve J never would of let this out the door.

It’s a first developer beta, not a shipping product. My interpretation is that it is just out of alpha phase, so plenty of glitches are still to be expected.

 

[b17777]

its that time of the year again where every other article on every apple site is about beta updates

And everyone complaining that they installed the beta and things don't work.

 

[zarmanto]

Can we get multiple users please? Thank you

Assuming you're referring to iPadOS: you may be frustrated to learn that the feature you're requesting is already fully baked; Apple specifically makes it available only to MDM customers. Home users are not invited.

 

[MacATDBB]

July 2006? That's when I first saw something that looked like the Tahoe GUI, although it was not on a Mac.

 

[dontwalkhand]

its that time of the year again where every other article on every apple site is about beta updates

And every site with a public forum with users complaining about how something doesn’t work in a beta.

 

[Steve01234]

It’s a first developer beta, not a shipping product. My interpretation is that it is just out of alpha phase, so plenty of glitches are still to be expected.

I've been involved with alpha, beta QA / UX for 30+ years. You fix the problems that are in it before letting wider audiences touch it. you want to be making small fixes, not more significant ones at this stage. it should of been fixed before this during focus group testing. thats the process. make a good 1st impression.

 

[mslilyelise]

*kicks seat in front of me like a petulant toddler*

Why won't the public betas drop already? I want something new to play with. That is all.