It’s excellent on my 16 pro max as well! Even more smooth than iOS 18 for me and iOS 18 was pretty smooth
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26 will be a stinker
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I find it particularly when typing certain things in the "old" keyboard, e.g. "Hey man how's it going man?". The last "n" will often be completely ignored, despite whacking the screen hard. It's absolutely insane. At one point I removed the beta and went back to 18 just to test.. and it was perfect. iOS26 has made the most basic things frustrating.
What was the quote at the beginning of the keynote? This keynote just happened to be the first Apple event I completely skipped in the last 15 years.
iOS 26 RC feels like they ran out of time and threw together what they had done for the iPhone launch. The polish feels like it's missing for what is supposed to be a visual focused update. Hopefully it will be quickly followed up with a 26.1 or 26.0.1 to fix these issues.
Ain’t all IOS buggy when they first come out? I’m sure depending on what iPhone or iPad people are using the experience may very. There will probably be an update shortly after the full release to fix problems that were recently discovered.
Today millions of "normal" users will install iOS26. Then we´ll see how "good" it is.
Is that in Safari or just iOS in general? Also what device.
I've had problems with keys being skipped in Safari on something I am working on and this turned out to be some awful tracking script that was intercepting key presses and doing loads of expensive CPU stuff in the background. I removed the script, strangled some engineers, and it went nice and fast again.
Honestly, with the complexity of OS’s today (and considering my parents who have less energy for shidd not working on their phones, let alone look different than before…)
….what today is the final release of a new OS should be the beta.
Or at least there needs to be another tier of releases. Because my parents should DEFINITELY not upgrade today and prob 40-60% of normal users shouldn’t. But will.
A Early Adopter Release, coming after the RC. Call it…Pro User Release Effort Required. PURER…
….what today is the final release of a new OS should be the beta.
Or at least there needs to be another tier of releases. Because my parents should DEFINITELY not upgrade today and prob 40-60% of normal users shouldn’t. But will.
A Early Adopter Release, coming after the RC. Call it…Pro User Release Effort Required. PURER…
I couldn’t agree more.
I’m just waiting for my mom to call me and complain about how everything works differently after years of it being almost the same.
I don’t want to explain the new camera and photos app to her. Performance on her 11 Pro is very lackluster anyway since installing a replacement screen (no real need or money to pay 300 bucks for an OEM screen) and only having a 74% battery and I expect LG to kill the phone very soon.
Older folks are just not thought about with this release.
And no, the new guided access thingy isn’t a viable option for someone who previously used full iOS, should anyone recommend that.
From the top of my head:
Design isn’t how it looks like, design is how it works
- Steve Jobs
It’s just the opposite of LG to me
This year was actually quite nice, hardware product focused, only one mention of AI that I noticed, not too long, not too short, great products IMO. The worst part was the Apple Watch saves lives ad, because I almost always find these a little cringy, the only one I ever „liked“ was I think last year with the dude in Australia that was over a kilometer off shore and was still able to call for help with his ultra.
A watch has no business saving you from this, until it does. Still gives me shivers.
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Big issue for one/small issues for another = still an issue.
I don’t say everybody should care about these issues, I am happy for people that don’t notice any, but that’s not the standard we should hold Apple software/design to.
Big or minor don’t matter, what matters is if they are obvious.
If you saw my screenshot in post 4, these are very obvious.
I guess you’re right that the title of this thread „doesn’t help“, but how would any thread?
If you share your experience you are told to file feedback reports, but if you file feedback reports you still have the same experience.
This thread is just an opinion piece, and obviously some people agree with my „blank statement“, because they see what I see, a flawed product.
You saying that you personally don’t experience any issues is just as blank of a statement and just as helpful as saying nothing at all, sorry.
All these „I don’t have that problem“ posts in the beta threads are sooo annoying for the people that do unpaid work for Apple just to see that it didn’t change jack *****.
For all the people that took the time out of their days in the last 3 months trying to make this right, seeing it still isn’t, „26 will be a stinker“ isn’t a blank statement at all.
Unfortunately no it seems, and that’s my point. Apple had enough time and recourses to hit the new design out of the park this September and they won’t.
Unless there is a culture change within Apple, the new design language will remain flawed for quite some time I fear.
Maybe it‘s been the internal secrecy prior to WWDC, maybe it’s something else that caused this. Whatever it was, it will take some time to get it to any „finished“ state.
Hmm, because disabling it helped me with previous iOS releases.
But if it’s already disabled for you, it seems there is nothing else you can do but wait it out.
Unfortunately, yes.
Considering my mother will be one of them, I’m patiently waiting for her call where she tells me how much she loves that she didn’t get the chance to consent to all these changes on her property…
I have sleep focus automations that turn on when I’m connected to my homes WiFi and the phones isn’t moving (use the „Actions“ app for that) and I know what you mean.
Barring the icons taking a few seconds to update I get a constantly flickering screen whenever I put the camera in slo-mo.
Keyboard lag (maybe not particularly skipping characters, but a delayed input) has been a staple of iOS updates from day one.
Update through major iOS versions and you eventually get keyboard lag. It may be after the first major update or it may take a couple, but it always happens. I don’t know why this happens. At some point I start thinking that it is on purpose, and I’m not a conspiratorial person.
I’m typing this on my iPad Air 5 on iPadOS 15 as fast as I can and there is no keyboard lag. I used my iPhone Xʀ on iOS 12 (which I still have) for six years, never updated it from its box version of iOS 12.3.1 and I don’t know what keyboard lag is. Yet users have reported keyboard lag on the iPhone Xʀ since at least iOS 16.
It’s been, perhaps, one of the very few staple issues that always comes with updating iOS. I have an iPhone 6s on iOS 10 and another one on iOS 13 and the keyboard smoothness is jarring when I switch.
A good OS update wouldn't require using accessibility settings just to get readable text.
No matter how you think about it aesthetically, from a pure usability perspective, Liquid Glass has been a disaster.
The GM is full of unfixed bugs (keyboard lag! In 2025!), but since bugfixing doesn't generate service revenue, Cook-era Apple doesn't care.
No matter how you think about it aesthetically, from a pure usability perspective, Liquid Glass has been a disaster.
The GM is full of unfixed bugs (keyboard lag! In 2025!), but since bugfixing doesn't generate service revenue, Cook-era Apple doesn't care.
Yes, I think ios 26s foundation currently is better than iOS 18. Although Liquid Glass is a theme, I think that everything under the hood is way more optimized. iOS 26 was one of the best betas in decades as far as usability and performance.