I fully agree, I was extrapolating ad absurdum, but I would still like to see some sort of release note that is intelligible by the Public, and an Apple public beta forum. I will continue to lobby for a beta section in the Apple Support Community, but in the mean time the word Beta triggers a moderator response, and we have to rely on Macrumors!
That said... so far, I haven't encountered more than just slightly annoying anomalies in the current beta for 27 -- though, I'm still in the waiting list for Siri AI. Hopefully, my observation of this level of stability persists through the rest of this cycle's betas, as it has been awhile since I last chose to dip my toe into the deep end. 😎
My only major complaint is the iOS glass shadows/edges are very very harsh and sharpened compared to MacOS. I hope DB2 brings the macOS glass over.
I've only got 27 installed on my iPhone and I didn't even realise the elements render differently. LG on iOS 27 feels way off to me. Like what even is this?? A glass button, on top of a glass bar, on top of flat ui. I like the macOS look much better but iPhone needs its progressive blur and shadows back as the default look imo.
No. It’ll be a week or two until B2.
I wish. But if my memory serves me right on past beta’s, we have at least another week. I’m hoping first thing they fix is battery issues. Specifically charging limits. There are times I’ll plug into high speed charger and my phone pulls like 1-3 watts. So little that my battery loses power while plugged in.
no. The week after, most likely.
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Yup but I’m calling it tomorrow they gonna release beta 2
It’s supposed to have an entire shaded circle in the center of the button to tie it all together like MacOS. That round shadow is missing, so it breaks the whole illusion of a button and it just looks like an oblong circle.
Three posts up there’s a blurrier comparison of iOS/iPadOS 27 LG with harsher dark grey outline around buttons and macOS 27 LG with lighter grey outline and white chamfering-like detail inside of the outline.
The only reason I think there’s even a 1% chance we could get beta 2 today is because glass shading/appearance is broken for everyone in light mode on iOS and iPadOS, so they may not want it getting posted everywhere. They still can’t get away from screenshots of the 26.0 DB1 control center to this day.
