iOS 26 Speculation Thread

[Kal Madda]

I would agree. Seems that Apple just stopped signing the recently released updates for older phones (pre-iOS 26), and I find it hard to believe they'd release a 'point.point' update if they're planning to release iOS 26.3 next week. I'd assume that 26.3 would be released maybe Feb 9

They would be releasing 26.3 in two weeks if my thinking is right. The RC Beta would be next week, not public release. 👍🏻

 

[Kal Madda]

Based on the fact that the public beta came a day later than the dev one this week, I fear we are getting another beta next week and (if dev and public are on the same day) RC the week after.

For the last several years, this pattern has not been broken with .X updates and the only reason I am not more certain about this round is that the dev beta was released later in the day than usual (due to 26.2.1), so it might be an anomaly. No beta last week also matches us still being on a 2 week beta schedule, making a RC next week even more unlikely. I do hope I am wrong though.

Perhaps, though we have reports indicating 26.4 Beta 1 and the new Siri will be landing mid February. So unless they do overlapping betas, I think it’s fairly safe to say that 26.3 would be released by mid February… 🤷🏼‍♂️. But maybe not. 👍🏻

 

[Reeneman]

Pages, Keynote and Numbers apps are now also updated with the Liquid Glass design. Oh baby.