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iOS 26 Public Beta Expected This Week as First iOS 27 Rumor Surfaces
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I’m somewhat interested in the iPhone Air, but iOS 26 so far is a big turn-off.
Dropping support for the iPhone 14 after only four years? And the iPhone SE 3 which was still being sold this year? Very unlikely. Those devices will be supported for a couple years longer.Since 27 is dropping Intel support we can expect iOS 27 to carry that thru and drop a majority of older iPhone devices, maybe all Lightning devices.📱
Better wait until iOS 28!
Huh? All iPhones use A chips, which are basically precursors to M chips.Since 27 is dropping Intel support we can expect iOS 27 to carry that thru and drop a majority of older iPhone devices, maybe all Lightning devices.
Intel chips are an entirely different architecture.
I can understand Apple wanting to sunset Intel Macs as soon as possible.
There is zero reason to do the same for iPhones.
I don't understand what your argument was here.
I bet iPhone 17 will come with +200$ price rise at least and some new emoji for people to be happy
I have 26 developer beta 3 on my iphone and it is horrible. Will wait for beta 4 and if the same will go back to 18.
Since iOS 18.4 didn’t work for you very well, perhaps you have a duff handset.
I don't plan to upgrade to iOS 26 until Apple releases the first bug fix with iOS 26.0.1, probably in the second week of October 2025.
iOS 26 is so boring that we need to start discussing iOS 27.
I think the AI hype may be starting to wear off. *crosses fingers*
As with the .com bubble, any useful tools are buried in a pile of junk produced by opportunists riding the hype train. Joe Public sees AI as bloatware that threatens his job, jacks up the price of NVidia stock, and replaces creative art with creepy, robotic slop like The Velvet Sundown or the hundreds of bizarre AI videos on YouTube.
That's certainly not what I've been hearing from developers. Marco Arment (the Overcast dev) has said these are the roughest iOS betas he's used in years. A few other prominent devs I follow have said similar things.
Agree. The naming convention by calendar year pins them to always shipping on a schedule as opposed to when ready. They’ve really been declining in software quality for far too long. Who knows how they solve this or if they even care to or can. There has to be people there that can make a difference because it isn’t all doom and gloom. There have been some great steps forward, and some awesome feature along the way. Personally, I think it’s time for Federighi and Dye to take a hike, and time for others to lead in a demanding fashion, that have some sense of what great software and design is. Cook is clearly not that individual to oversee a transition in this area. He’s to blame for the organizational structure that got them here in the first place. Started with Ives stepping out of his bounds into software and the rest has been a chain of events.
I wonder how 26 will land with consumers that aren’t tech savvy and have auto updates turned on come September?
Part of me wants to just see what 26 is all about, then the other part of me doesn’t even trust release software let alone betas anymore.
It sucks that they’re going to a yearly upgrade cycle and you’ll need an iPhone 27 to run iPhoneOS 27.
Not quite. Here is the entire quote from the Bloomberg article that MacRumors is drawing from: "And as part of the development of iOS 27 — which formally kicks off soon — Apple will prioritize software features tailored specifically to this new [foldable] form factor."
As one should. Some people seem to forget that these are beta testing releases meant for testing only.
Yep, that’s my philosophy roughly. The software quality is so awful nowadays it’s hard to be excited anymore and even less excited to actually use it. I could be ok with bugs here and there if they actually were 1) reportable in a meaningful way, and 2) they actually 2a) admit them, 2b) address and fix them.
Spotlight failing should never happen (randomly not engaging it’s calculator function; happened just today; worked fine in iOS 6), safari overheating my iPhone or iPad is an epic failure and Apple should be ashamed of themselves for not power-policing their own app, Mail not able to really search folders is beyond excusable in 2025 (failed yesterday when I needed it at the store), iPad onscreen keyboard is the worst experience ever (I wish I could turn off the random “select all -> delete” bizarro crap it does… I already turned off the stupid format bar crap that gets in the way).
IMO it's currently nowhere near the standard it needs to be for a public beta. The latest dec beta is amongst the buggiest I've ever seen them to be.
I just don’t see Apple getting a foldable phone.. they’ve could have already had one
I’d recommend staying on 18 until 26.3 at least. I went back to 18 but I done it wrong and got my watch “bricked” so had to go back to 26. Can’t be bothered resetting my watch and phone again so will just ride out this awful dev beta.
Battery life on 26 is terrible. My 15 Pro Max gets uncomfortably hot doing nothing. The whole new UI design is an absolute mess visually and very buggy/unresponsive.
Don’t bother with the public beta. You’re not missing anything exciting. Wait for general release and even better wait for a few patches.
Battery life on 26 is terrible. My 15 Pro Max gets uncomfortably hot doing nothing. The whole new UI design is an absolute mess visually and very buggy/unresponsive.
Don’t bother with the public beta. You’re not missing anything exciting. Wait for general release and even better wait for a few patches.
Sit down I’ve got something to tell you. Apple weren’t the first to release a mp3 player, smartphone, tablet, smartwatch, or AR/VR headset.
Apple like to take their time and not rush into a market. They are always behind everyone else. It’s because they believe they can make a better product true to their own vision and/or they are incompetent.