Nice, thanks. I was skeptical at first and didn't try the betas, but now that I finally updated it's pretty damn cool.
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iOS 26 RC ― Bug Fixes, Changes, and Improvements
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Might be too soon to be sure, but after 1 day with the RC the battery life on my 15 Pro seems to be way better. By this time of night I was used to being in the red, but today I'm sitting at 49%.
Maps has been broken since beta 9, and isn’t fixed. If you start navigation and then turn the display off (like I do in my car) navigation pauses, and doesn’t update through my stereo until I turn the screen back on.
I just submitted feedback about it, but since it made its way to the RC I’m not optimistic about this getting fixed.
I just submitted feedback about it, but since it made its way to the RC I’m not optimistic about this getting fixed.
When going into an existing text thread. Click on the contact or thread name, go to photos tab. I get blank photos. I click to delete them, go out of the thread, and then go back into the photos tab again, and all of the blank photos reappear. Anyone else?
Last charged my 16PM to 100% 24 hours ago and I’m sitting at 25% right now. Definitely can’t complain!
I don’t have that redraw issue on my 16 pro max.So they haven’t fixed the icon redraws when scrolling quickly on the Home Screen then. 16 pro.
I wonder if the new phones have the same problems.
. 16 pro.
Because the amount of bugs people are reporting are still present makes me think that it’s not the version “everyone will get to download” - like it happened last year and a few other times.
Also, after reading the whole thread, staying on 18.6.2 until 26.0.1 is also something which I’m considering now.
I’m running 26 on my iPads, and there’s not that much in it to make me sacrifice stability and battery life on my phone.
I flashed using IPSW and restored from backup. The phone is continuously stuttering, draining battery like crazy and running extremely hot, one day later. I took it off charge 15 mins ago and since then, has dropped 10% with normal usage and battery health has gone 2% in 1 day. I will give it another night and if it doesn’t improve, will flash again and not restore from backup
9/10 on my 15 Pro. I'm super impressed with the progress Apple has made because I would have rated it 4/10 back on Beta 5 and earlier. It seems to be ready to go!
Battery pretty bad yesterday although kind of expected, but today battery life is really good. a welcome plus for my 13 and it's well worn battery. Not noticing any annoying bugs either. Seems very stable and smooth.
After testing iOS 26.0 RC on my iPhone 11 Pro Max for a few hours, I decided to go back to iOS 18.6.2 and just update to iOS 18.7 RC. I don't know about the newer iPhone models but I think Apple should not have released iOS 26.x for iPhone 11 series at all. It reminds me of iPhone 4s getting iOS 9.x when it should not have.
iPhone X - 3GB RAM - last major version is iOS 16
iPhone XS - 4GB RAM - last major version is iOS 18
iPhone 11 Pro - 4GB RAM - last major version is iOS 26
iOS 26 [sequentially should have been iOS 19] introduced Liquid Glass which although is as nice to look at like in Windows Vista and Windows 7 however the performance will not be as good as iPhone models with at least 6GB RAM. There will be more icon refreshes and I initially observed it when accessing the App Library even though I don't really use it, just swiping test to gauge performance. With iOS 18 even though it performed slower than iOS 17 and older, the performance is still somewhat acceptable.
For those who are still using the iPhone 11 series, instead of upgrading to iOS 26, upgrade your iPhone to a newer model if you have the money, otherwise, stay on iOS 18. I can foresee that it will be another iOS 9 on iPhone 4s moment, a demanding software for an under-powered hardware.
Apple should have never allowed the iPhone 11 series to upgrade to iOS 26 [iOS 19] in the first place.
I think you jumped to conclusions. Someone here has problems with drawing icons on the 16th iPhone. So these bugs do not depend on the amount of RAM. If the company decided that the iPhone 11 will be able to function adequately with the new iOS, then it should be so. I myself have the 11th, recently replaced the original battery due to a sharp degradation from 84% to 79% after updating to 18.6.1 (in a week the battery deteriorated too much, I had to keep the phone on charge everywhere).
Back when WWDC 2024 has not yet happened, I mentioned this:
After experiencing iOS 26.0 RC on iPhone 11 Pro Max 4GB RAM and 512GB storage and 400+ GB free space, I really believe that iOS 18 should have been the last major version for iPhone 11 series.
After experiencing iOS 26.0 RC on iPhone 11 Pro Max 4GB RAM and 512GB storage and 400+ GB free space, I really believe that iOS 18 should have been the last major version for iPhone 11 series.
If it comes down to it, then for the 11th the best in terms of performance and energy consumption during operation was iOS 16.7.2.
I usually jump in when the RC is released but I am not sure this time as there seems to be quite a few unresolved bug reports. However, I know that no software/firmware is ever 100% bug free. Its just that to me, there seems to be quite a few that really should have been squashed at this time.
It runs well on my base iPhone 11. Battery is down to 76%, but that's pretty good for a 6 year old phone.
Just a personal thought, but I believe one of the reasons iOS 26 runs so well on older phones like mine is because it doesn't support Apple Intelligence.
I'll still be upgrading to a new phone in a week or two though, as 6 years is enough!
I am happy with my iPhone, except for the battery that has degraded dramatically, which had to be replaced, now the charge holds up well. The only thing that upsets me is that in new versions of iOS (take the same 18.6.2) - old phones heat up and drain the battery more. Apparently this was done on purpose so that people would buy new models.
My battery life hasn't changed much since around iOS 17. In fact, iOS 18 improved things somewhat and it's stayed the same on 26.
I'm upgrading because I use my phone caseless, and cracked the screen a few months ago. Another drop around a week ago broke parts of the digitiser. It's as if the phone just euthanised itself right on time for the base iPhone 17. It's as if it knew I was waiting for a base phone to have AOD, which is one of the things I want 😁
It’s not nearly as bad as some make it out to be, though I do acknowledge that some users are experiencing issues that I am not.
iOS 26 has been running very well on my 14PM since around beta 5/6, with battery performance having been pretty stable since then. I’ve had only a single crash issue since beta 4, and that was one app crashing when trying to login with Face ID on beta 9. It was only my telco app so not critical, and passcode entry was fine. Resolved now with the RC or possibly an update to the app as I don’t use it often.
There are some visual bugs, sure, but nothing that to me at least is more than a tiny annoyance. Probably the only thing that genuinely bugs me is the blocking of text boxes in Safari by the compact URL and tick box bar sitting above the keyboard (happening right now).