I can understand that. I haven’t run across any 3rd party app issues myself but it could happen.
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How long after iOS 26 releases will you wait to install it on your main iPhone?
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Much more than cosmetic.Doesn’t seem to be that many changes other than cosmetic
Keyboard keys are narrower, that’s cool
I've always installed every beta day one, and honestly it always works out fine.. I enjoy the process quite a bit, and this year I find it VERY solid and barely an issue on mobile
Now my Mac on the other hand, I'm having to babysit the memory usage pretty tightly. Managing some vicious app memory leak isn't so fun, I've three full panics thus far (the third snuck up) .. haha
Great stuff tho, no complaints at all.. just some extra fun, and everything actually needful works fine or I figure out a work-around
Now my Mac on the other hand, I'm having to babysit the memory usage pretty tightly. Managing some vicious app memory leak isn't so fun, I've three full panics thus far (the third snuck up) .. haha
Great stuff tho, no complaints at all.. just some extra fun, and everything actually needful works fine or I figure out a work-around
Agree 💯
Apple doesn't make these sort of changes without major under the hood work. I am assuming the entire window server code has either been rewritten or at least refactored to the hilt. These UI/UX changes run deep into the infrastructure.
Well, I'm running the Dev Betas on my iPhone 14, but I'm using an iPhone 11 because I smashed the screen on the 14. The 14 will go back to being my main phone, iOS 26 beta and all, as soon as I can afford to fix the screen.
Same. Pretty feature light for stuff I use heavily, so it’s really to get a feel of the new look where the most temptation comes from.
I’m still using an iPhone 11 as my main device and will update immediately. Been on iOS since version 2 and never had a show stopping upgrade.
One persons "works out fine" includes tolerating crashes to black screen when moving windows around, another person's does not. Because that's what has been happening with iPadOS, especially if you're plugged into an external display.
Dev beta 1 has been a bit rough. Is it usable? Sure. If you're willing to deal with the occasional crash, bug, etc.
Most apple customers don't want to deal with that though.
My experience with iOS 26 has actually been remarkably smooth, with only two moments where something unexpected happened, which in my case was one app was slow to load a few times, and another app quit unexpectedly a couple of times. That's it.
I'd actually take it a bit further though. I think most Apple customers SHOULDN'T have to deal with it! I've got reasons to jump on betas early, as people who run things and don't have time for nonsense use my nerdery to help make their decisions, so getting familiar with upcoming OSs is very handy to me. And I enjoy being able to contribute by submitting reports to Apple. I did it a fair bit with Sequoia last time around.
If that new Focus-SIM feature is stable and it really works the way I want it to (i,e just to silence just one enabled SIM and nothing else) then I shall install iOS 26 on the day it's available 😬
its seems that there are usually there are groups of third party apps that don't work because of some significant change in the OS
this year there it seems there aren't major underlying os changes but rather just a new UI so I would imagine most third party apps would work fine
one certain exception is banking and ID apps which often are specifically coded to either not work on a beta or only work on certain OS versions
in my case all of my banking apps work in iOS 26 but my provincial ID app does not, and specifically tells you that it won't work on a beta
I will install the latest iOS a couple of days after Apple releases [pushes] it to the public as no longer beta. As long as there is no outrage from the unwashed masses that it is a POS breaking things I will be in.
iOS has been solid, but sometimes app devs are lazy and fail to update their app for the new iOS prior to the iOS GM, which breaks the app. Some pissy little app like a parking meter app breaking can be a PITA.
Same iPhone here. Waiting for the PB and also waiting for a ".1" or ".2" release. 100% satisfied with iOS 18.5.
I have an iPhone 11. The smart thing would be to wait a few months and see what people say about the speed. I’m afraid it might slow the phone down unnecessarily. Apparently, the visual effects take up processing power.
But knowing myself, I’ll probably install it much sooner because I want to see what it’s like.
But knowing myself, I’ll probably install it much sooner because I want to see what it’s like.
Unless there are show stopping bugs or an app(s) I rely on is(are) not working I typically update when the RC is released and is found stable. Once it’s released to the public their servers craaaaaaaawl.