iOS 26 Speculation Thread

[iToph]

I ran every beta since iOS7. Can’t remember how a life with a properly working iPhone is…

 

[HouseLannister]

I ran every beta since iOS7. Can’t remember how a life with a properly working iPhone is…

Well anyone who is waiting for 26.0 GM so it is "finished" is fooling themselves. iOS is never finished.

 

[MrRom92]

26b1 may be laggy, drain my battery like it sprung a leak and make my phone so hot I could fry an egg on it. But it’s at least more stable than 18.5

 

[Stiille]

26b1 may be laggy, drain my battery like it sprung a leak and make my phone so hot I could fry an egg on it. But it’s at least more stable than 18.5

Mine wasn’t stable at all and I went back to 18.5 and it’s way better now on my 15 PM.
Which iPhone you got?

 

[MrRom92]

Mine wasn’t stable at all and I went back to 18.5 and it’s way better now on my 15 PM.
Which iPhone you got?

I’m on the 14PM, unfortunately one of the phones that did not get an updated build the other day. I am unwilling to do a restore so good or bad, if I jump on a beta train I am committed to ride it out till the end. Thankfully as of right now it is pretty okay and managable enough for me, but I would very much like for the Safari background tab bug to get patched since that does legitimately impact my day to day regular use of the device

 

[Reeneman]

Well anyone who is waiting for 26.0 GM so it is "finished" is fooling themselves. iOS is never finished.

Never finished but „stabilsed“ 🥸

 

[iToph]

So - im ready for a good old Tuesday beta release!

 

[HouseLannister]

So - im ready for a good old Tuesday beta release!

That's great. Firefox is testing their Perplexity AI as a built-in search engine starting today.

 

[Reeneman]

So - im ready for a good old Tuesday beta release!

Would be awesome

 

[f12003_ga]

Would be good too because my iPhone 16 Pro keeps getting hot but I’m ok with it but just want beta 2. Also would like Numbers row on Apple keyboard. Not hard Apple!

 

[Reeneman]

Would be good too because my iPhone 16 Pro keeps getting hot but I’m ok with it but just want beta 2. Also would like Numbers row on Apple keyboard. Not hard Apple!

They’re presenting custom wallpapers in the message app as a brand new feature… it is hard

 

[greg624]

Would be good too because my iPhone 16 Pro keeps getting hot but I’m ok with it but just want beta 2. Also would like Numbers row on Apple keyboard. Not hard Apple!

Request it in feedback. I’ve already done so myself.

My feedback ID: FB17909750

 

[Skeptical.me]

So, what's the latest speculation on Beta 2?

 

[Stiille]

So, what's the latest speculation on Beta 2?

Next week Monday I guess

 

[Skeptical.me]

Next week Monday I guess

Right, great. Thanks mate.

 

[gank41]

Next week Monday I guess

Could possibly even be Tuesday.

 

[goldmac2006]

Which may be coming up. Had a chat 💬 with my Apple fan friend and he tested iPadOS 26 on his iPad Pro M4, we hope beta 2 addresses all these heat issues.

 

[Reeneman]

Ah new beta today would be so lovely

 

[Artemiz]

Ah new beta today would be so lovely

Man I love your wishful thinking

 

[dannyyankou]

I actually think there’s a chance that an emergency revision of b1 is released tomorrow. Lots of the new Apple Intelligence APIs are unusable for developers right now.

 

[goldmac2006]

I actually think there’s a chance that an emergency revision of b1 is released tomorrow. Lots of the new Apple Intelligence APIs are unusable for developers right now.

A thread regarding the Apple Intelligence outage is already out:

https://forums.macrumors.com/posts/33969649/

 

[Weaselboy]

Moderator Note:

Quite a few off-topic posts have been removed. This thread is for speculation about beta release schedules. Please use other threads to discuss topics such as battery life.