iOS 26 Speculation Thread

[LutzRFrank]

5 reboots of the MacBook later he won the race shortly followed by the iPhone

 

[iSuzan]

Hm... 1st look on iPadOS .. some icons look a bit blurrier than before? But I am not sure if my vision tricks me...

I see the same graphical glitches than before. Yes, even the loading spinner in softwareupdates are not centered yet. Will test further and then begin to write a few feedback reports.

 

[kyemaloy]

Not sure if this is new but it now shows specific call outs to the different features of ChatGPT to see what your over for

 

[winxmac]

iPhone 11 Pro Max
iOS 17.7 to iOS 26 Beta 1 - 7.38GB
iOS 17.7 to iOS 26 Beta 2 - 7.25GB

Releases:
iOS 26 beta 2 (23A5276f)
iPadOS 26 beta 2 (23A5276f)
macOS 26 beta 2 (25A5295e)
tvOS 26 beta 2 (23J5295e)
visionOS 26 beta 2 (23M5279f)
watchOS 26 beta 2 (23R5296f)

Source

 

[JCCL]

Can confirm .2 inch screen size increase.

Really? iPadOs is where it’s at. My m2 iPad Pro got an OLED screen after this update.

 

[LutzRFrank]

Ispw online on developer pages

 

[iPod2001]

 

[d123]

They fixed the transparent drop-downs for favourites in Safari (other boxes as well, eg notifications).

 

[JCCL]

My early impression is that performance does seem smoothier...especially if still indexing and running post-install processes. Just went throug a few apps in my 16 Pro Max and it seems greatly improved, wasn't expecting this in a Beta 2.

Still will need more testing, but first impressions about this Beta are very positive.

 

[Nathan576]

How’s phone temperature?

 

[LutzRFrank]

How’s phone temperature?

Initially hot it starts to cool down now

 

[Travis299]

16P update A-OK, 15PM I had to turn IOS Developer Bata off then back on to get B2 update. 16P I did NOT have to do that.

 

[Travis299]

16P & 15PM both seem normal heat wise and/or the same as B1 after the B2 update.

 

[Reeneman]

How’s phone temperature?

Variable

 

[HouseLannister]

Developer Beta 3 on 7/7 and Public Beta 1 on 7/8

 

[zayanhani]

Hey, has anyone heard anything solid about changes to the lock screen in iOS 26? I’ve seen a few random mentions but nothing clear. Curious what you all are expecting or hoping for.

 

[LutzRFrank]

Hey, has anyone heard anything solid about changes to the lock screen in iOS 26? I’ve seen a few random mentions but nothing clear. Curious what you all are expecting or hoping for.

look over here iOS26 Bug Fixes, Changes & Improvements, plenty of screenshots and posts

 

[pw5a29]

Developer Beta 3 on 7/7 and Public Beta 1 on 7/8

the first public beta every year is one week after DB3, last year there's also a build revision change

 

[originalmagneto]

I don’t know about you guys but I think this years dev betas have been pretty stable. Aside from performance issues, I’ve had minimal hiccups and hard stop bugs on my iPhone 15P/ iPad Mini / watch Ultra or my Mac Studio (M1). It’s strange because the I’m used to having big performance issues etc.

Hopefully we will get to performance improvement sooner this year, maybe after Beta 3?

 

[gank41]

I don’t know about you guys but I think this years dev betas have been pretty stable. Aside from performance issues, I’ve had minimal hiccups and hard stop bugs on my iPhone 15P/ iPad Mini / watch Ultra or my Mac Studio (M1). It’s strange because the I’m used to having big performance issues etc.

Hopefully we will get to performance improvement sooner this year, maybe after Beta 3?

Maybe! Or maybe it gets worse on b3 and we get some relief with b4 lol

It's always a crapshoot this early on.

 

[LutzRFrank]

what if ... if Apple jumps his own shadow and we get already the next week a beta 3?

 

[garetc]

I don’t know about you guys but I think this years dev betas have been pretty stable. Aside from performance issues, I’ve had minimal hiccups and hard stop bugs on my iPhone 15P/ iPad Mini / watch Ultra or my Mac Studio (M1). It’s strange because the I’m used to having big performance issues etc.

Hopefully we will get to performance improvement sooner this year, maybe after Beta 3?

Last year was pretty similar too, over the years the beta’s seem much more stable.

 

[Kal Madda]

I don’t know about you guys but I think this years dev betas have been pretty stable. Aside from performance issues, I’ve had minimal hiccups and hard stop bugs on my iPhone 15P/ iPad Mini / watch Ultra or my Mac Studio (M1). It’s strange because the I’m used to having big performance issues etc.

Hopefully we will get to performance improvement sooner this year, maybe after Beta 3?

Yeah, I’ve been on the iPadOS developer betas since the beginning of the iPadOS 17 beta cycle, and I’ve never encountered any major issues so far. I think the betas are getting more stable. 👍🏻

 

[gtmead09]

what if ... if Apple jumps his own shadow and we get already the next week a beta 3?

Probably a slim chance, 18.6 beta 2 will be this upcoming week. iOS 26 beta 3 will be some time the week of the 7th.

 

[originalmagneto]

Probably a slim chance, 18.6 beta 2 will be this upcoming week. iOS 26 beta 3 will be some time the week of the 7th.

Just listened to the latest Gruber podcast and he said that the betas were in a really bad shape just before the keynote and that he thinks they will rapidly improve the beta software over the summer so an early weekly beta acceleration is not completely out of the question 😉