iOS 26 Speculation Thread

[iSuzan]

Well, i was looking forward to this beta 9, but after installing it, the most annoying visual bug still persists - the app icons and widgets turn black upon tapping them when using clear or tinted app icons theme.

wild that this started on beta 7 and never got fixed. Such lack of polish.

OK, with clear icons I opened and closed now a bunch of icons. Not sure if sometimes I see some black on the underside. But only for a brief second. Nearly if a black square lies under the icon.

But not sure if I had seen this before you mentioned it.

Not even sure it bothers me now…

 

[LutzRFrank]

I just switched to dark automatic. No visible glitches

 

[LutzRFrank]

Manually back to light. Still fine

 

[Kal Madda]

What about icons redraws? That is happening constantly on my iPhone 15 Pro Max. Its annoying!

Haven’t had any problems with app icons on any of my devices. Sorry to hear that’s affecting you, hopefully the RC will fix it for you. 👍🏻

 

[iLuddite]

Well I’m at least glad I was wrong about nothing coming this week.

 

[cableguy84]

WHEN IS PUBLIC BETA OUT

 

[furbzv1]

Beta a week before the announcement? That's weird.

 

[dwrufus53]

Beta a week before the announcement? That's weird.

It appears to largely be a placebo. Many still reporting the same issues from DP7 and DP8 persist. Meh. Nothing to see here.

 

[chillip]

As we told you, no beta today and most likely no beta tomorrow or sometime else.
Only one week until the event, relax and wait for the RC

This aged well.

 

[Stiille]

This aged well.

Yeah really thought there won’t be a new beta until next week 😅

 

[AHDuke99]

Is Beta 9 the GM release or should we expect that next Monday after the keynote? I assume Friday will be the public release.

 

[Stiille]

Is Beta 9 the GM release or should we expect that next Monday after the keynote? I assume Friday will be the public release.

Wrong, wrong and wrong.

It’s db 9 and RC follows next Tuesday and release is most likely on Monday the 15th

 

[vipanonymous]

Usually the RC still have some analytics process running in the background?

 

[Stiille]

Usually the RC still have some analytics process running in the background?

In my experience no

 

[HouseLannister]

Usually the RC still have some analytics process running in the background?

This is an urban legend. All versions of iOS have analytics in the background. The feedback app is still there if you are not on a beta, just hidden. The crash reports are still generated. Nothing is different in how Apple collects data during a beta. There has been zero proof that Apple does something extra during a beta cycle. The files they collect are so small that there is zero performance impact.

 

[Populus]

This is an urban legend. All versions of iOS have analytics in the background. The feedback app is still there if you are not on a beta, just hidden. The crash reports are still generated. Nothing is different in how Apple collects data during a beta. There has been zero proof that Apple does something extra during a beta cycle. The files they collect are so small that there is zero performance impact.

But when you’re setting your device as new with a public release installed, in one of the initial screens they allow you to deny this data collection. Either from developers, or from Apple and developers. I think you’re not able to disable this analytics collection from Apple on beta software, something I understand, because that’s the goal of a beta, right?

 

[HouseLannister]

But when you’re setting your device as new with a public release installed, in one of the initial screens they allow you to deny this data collection. Either from developers, or from Apple and developers. I think you’re not able to disable this analytics collection from Apple on beta software, something I understand, because that’s the goal of a beta, right?

The data is still on device. You are stopping a couple hundred KB from being uploaded once in awhile. No performance impact.

 

[Moukee]

The data is still on device. You are stopping a couple hundred KB from being uploaded once in awhile. No performance impact.

Settings > Privacy & Security > Analytics & Improvements > Analytics Data to view the generated log files.

Although I think some logging is more verbose with Share Analytics enabled, as for example logs about iPad battery health seem to only be created with this setting turned on.

 

[Cobold]

This is an urban legend. All versions of iOS have analytics in the background. The feedback app is still there if you are not on a beta, just hidden. The crash reports are still generated. Nothing is different in how Apple collects data during a beta. There has been zero proof that Apple does something extra during a beta cycle. The files they collect are so small that there is zero performance impact.

Really?

 

[gank41]

Usually the RC still have some analytics process running in the background?

The Logging and direct icon to the Feedback app should be removed, which will help Battery Life greatly. Note you'd still be able to get to the Feedback app, even on a regular release just by entering this in the URL Bar in Safari--

applefeedback://