iOS 26 Speculation Thread

[jpsmith76]

I seem to have some luck when posting about it being too quiet around here, so here it goes.

 

[dannyyankou]

I think 26.5 beta is coming tomorrow or Wednesday. Today doesn’t feel right for some reason.

 

[nortonandreev]

Well… nothing. 🥱

 

[NBKindaGirl]

No new birthday beta for me? ☹️

 

[bricktop_at]

No new birthday beta for me? ☹️

Happy bday anyway!💐🎉

 

[dimon2242]

No new birthday beta for me? ☹️

Happy birthday to u 😎

 

[sbailey4]

No new birthday beta for me? ☹️

Happy Birthday!🎂🧁

 

[iLuddite]

Release Forecast


Historically, Apple often starts a new beta cycle on a Monday or Tuesday following the public release of a major update.


• Monday (Today): This is the most likely candidate. Sources like 9to5Mac and Ubergizmo have predicted Monday, March 30, as the primary target for the developer beta. Apple frequently seeds new betas at 10:00 AM PT (1:00 PM ET).


• Tuesday: If it doesn't drop today, Tuesday is the secondary window. Apple occasionally shifts beta releases to Tuesdays to avoid overlapping with other Monday service updates.


• Wednesday: Less likely for a "Beta 1" launch, as Apple typically prefers to give developers a full week to begin testing.

Thank you Chat GPT 😍🫶

 

[dannyyankou]

I think 26.5 beta is coming tomorrow or Wednesday. Today doesn’t feel right for some reason.

It's out! Reverse psychology, I know Tim is reading 😉

 

[BadMelonFarmer]

So who is going to be the brave one to ask about new Siri?

 

[NBKindaGirl]

YES new beta out!!!

 

[Chinoo]

26.5 beta is out

 

[coolaaron88]

Lets go beta!

 

[fischersd]

8.53GB on iPhone 16

Edit: Interesting - it's OTA, but the dev site isn't updated yet?!?!
Edit2: And TVOS is also out - build 23L5443g.
Edit....ok...now it is. Odd. Updates for everything.

 

[iLuddite]

Let’s see…

 

[dannyyankou]

Looks like there's nothing new about Apple Intelligence. It's not downloading any new additional support or anything.

On to iOS 27!

 

[fonzy91]

I assume if there were any updates to Apple Intelligence they would have send out a Press Release about it, like when the Xcode beta included new AI features couple of months ago.

 

[gank41]

I am not a app developer so my question circles around lack of knowledge. Do you think this is a large enough issue that 26.4.1 could be expedited to fix or Apple will just roll with 26.4.1 as they probably already had scheduled? Unless they short beta cycle 26.5 which I don't see unless their is no Google / Siri changes, we have a while yet before that will see public release. Of course unless they can fix it server side.

That's difficult to say, but in the Dev Comments, there is an Apple employee who noted that this is in fact a "broken" regression, and to file Feedback (most likely for logs for the teams). In my case, the app I'm currently making relies on iCloud Sync to be working correctly as described there, and it's currently not. In my case ALL WAS SUPER FINE on 26.3.1, and then 26.4 caused enough of an issue to where I'm going to have to either delay shipping something or drastically change my plans.
🙂

 

[Treble]

Wow that was a nothing update if ever there’s been one

 

[huanbrother]

Apple Intelligence finally pushed to CN sold devices! Cheers.

 

[gtmead09]

So based on history and no major changes that are being noted, I would say we’ll probably be aligning to this type of schedule:

Beta 1 - Available
Beta 2 - Week of April 13th
Beta 3 - Week of April 20th
Beta 4 - Week of April 27th
RC - May 4th week
Public - May 11th week

iOS 18.5 came out May 12th last year, I would guess this will be fairly close schedule wise.

 

[Nathan576]

Looks like there's nothing new about Apple Intelligence. It's not downloading any new additional support or anything.

On to iOS 27!

Yep, looks like we’ve got a couple months to go to see anything exciting. Oh well.

 

[gank41]

Wow that was a nothing update if ever there’s been one

Apparently the recent iCloud issues developers have been dealing with because of regressions introduced in the release version of 26.4 (but not the RC or any betas) is now reportedly "fixed" in the 26.5 beta.. I think it may be safe to assume this was actually a BIG fix, and that we'll even see a 26.4.1 sooner than later so they can hold out on 26.5 for a while.

 

[gank41]

Apparently the recent iCloud issues developers have been dealing with because of regressions introduced in the release version of 26.4 (but not the RC or any betas) is now reportedly "fixed" in the 26.5 beta.. I think it may be safe to assume this was actually a BIG fix, and that we'll even see a 26.4.1 sooner than later so they can hold out on 26.5 for a while.

Looks like that same Dev from the Apple Dev Forums earlier was asking if 26.5 b1 had fixed the iCloud Syncing issues so many developers are having since 26.4, and all the replies were a yes. Someone else on Mastodon also confirmed these issues are fixed in b1, so it's possible we might see 26.4.1 pretty soon.

 

[VineRider]

This article from Wired (behind a Paywall unless you subscribe to Apple News) states that a spokesperson from Apple stated that updated to iOS 18 are coming today. Wondering if we may get something for iOS 26 as well.

Apple Will Push Out Rare ‘Backported’ Patches to Protect iOS 18 Users From DarkSword Hacking Tool

As DarkSword spreads, Apple tells WIRED it will enable iOS 18-specific fixes for millions of iPhone owners who remain on that iOS version rather than force them to update to iOS 26.

www.wired.com