iOS 26.1 Beta 1 ― Bug Fixes, Changes, and Improvements

[Reeneman]

Why do people care so much about this? Why are you turning on and off WiFi so much? Just keep it on.

Yeah sometimes it’s bizarre about what things people seem to care.
I get it that especially with apple you should expect that such little details are on point but there are far more substantial issues in iOS 26 compared to missing glass effects on some tiny buttons.

 

[Reeneman]

It's not about turning WiFi off and on. It's about Apple's lazy, shoddy coding practices. Apple often throws feces at the wall, calling it art and expecting their customers to swoon for having been blessed by Apple.

Better don’t use the time/alarm app then at this point

 

[sbailey4]

Better don’t use the time/alarm app then at this point

Why do you say that? Is the alarm app jacked up and not working now?

 

[iLuddite]

Just keep it on.

Um...no?

 

[iLuddite]

17 pro 512 blue…..26.1…..Just got the dreaded iPhone will resume charging because of temperature. So much for the vapor cooling chamber I was so impressed with the first few days I had it. All i had on it was a MagSafe battery pack charging it.

Are you using a case? If so, which one/kind?

 

[mavis]

Maybe it still needs to download support files in the background.

Maybe so 🤔 It finally started working yesterday! I tried it with the TV and it worked fairly well:

 

[Jumpie]

My brother and sister have Android running RCS. Sometimes in our group text when I send to them, it seems like it creates a new group text for them. Anyone know why this happens?

 

[Dust-by-Monday]

Yeah sometimes it’s bizarre about what things people seem to care.
I get it that especially with apple you should expect that such little details are on point but there are far more substantial issues in iOS 26 compared to missing glass effects on some tiny buttons.

That's what I mean. There's worse glitches and bugs that are more glaring and common. It just seems like some people sit there and toggle wifi on and off all day and can't enjoy themselves because there's no special animation for it.

I don't even understand why people are turning wifi off anyway. Just leave it on. If you wanna disconnect from your current network, just use control center to disconnect for the day.

 

[iLuddite]

That's what I mean. There's worse glitches and bugs that are more glaring and common. It just seems like some people sit there and toggle wifi on and off all day and can't enjoy themselves because there's no special animation for it.

I don't even understand why people are turning wifi off anyway. Just leave it on. If you wanna disconnect from your current network, just use control center to disconnect for the day.

Or maybe some of us would like to, you know, completely disable wifi or even (gasp!) bluetooth when they're not in use to save on battery or just because? What I don't understand is blithely telling other sovereign individuals how THEIR devices ought to be used.

Very "You're holding it wrong!" of you.

 

[CLS2025]

Really? Actually seems better to me; I got through the work day higher than usual, about 70% remaining (with an 80% charge limit set)

I use a 16 Pro Max, though, and I don’t use Apple Intelligence.

The battery time seems to be better now, so I guess it was the (long) indexing?

 

[13paul13]

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You have a habit of just posting a screenshot and not saying what’s wrong with it. It took me a while to spot, but I presume it’s the text on the mini player at the bottom being in black. As a polite request, can you please put an explanation on in future in addition to the screenshot?

 

[damorino]

Is it just me or is my Mail-app randomly refreshing itself acting like obsessed?

Every time I open a mail, or whatever I‘m currently doing, it suddenly refreshes and kicks me out of the current mail - see video attached.

This has been the case since iOS 26 and is really annoying - not that I use it much, but still.

 

[Ethan.Albano]

My brother and sister have Android running RCS. Sometimes in our group text when I send to them, it seems like it creates a new group text for them. Anyone know why this happens?

Having the same issue with a fantasy football groupchat. It’s been swapping between “sent in RCS” and “sent in SMS” for weeks now. Then it randomly kicked someone out of the groupchat, and now there are THREE group chats, with none of them having all same members and messages as before.

Frustrating. Feels like RCS was a major step back from MMS for group chats.

 

[RSmith2023]

Having the same issue with a fantasy football groupchat. It’s been swapping between “sent in RCS” and “sent in SMS” for weeks now. Then it randomly kicked someone out of the groupchat, and now there are THREE group chats, with none of them having all same members and messages as before.

Frustrating. Feels like RCS was a major step back from MMS for group chats.

I have seen that happen with “mixed” group chats for quite some time. Usually the result of 1 of the android users posting a reply and it creates a new thread but not everyone is in it.

 

[StumpyBloke]

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Please stop posting images without explaining what is going on.

And staring at your image, I’ve absolutely no idea what you’re talking about, unless it's the text at the bottom?

Edit: [mention]13paul13 [/mention] got in there before me.

 

[muntundombe]

Maybe so 🤔 It finally started working yesterday! I tried it with the TV and it worked fairly well:

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Then all is well that ends well 👍🏾

 

[Dust-by-Monday]

Or maybe some of us would like to, you know, completely disable wifi or even (gasp!) bluetooth when they're not in use to save on battery or just because? What I don't understand is blithely telling other sovereign individuals how THEIR devices ought to be used.

Very "You're holding it wrong!" of you.

Or maybe some of us would like to, you know, completely disable wifi or even (gasp!) bluetooth when they're not in use to save on battery or just because? What I don't understand is blithely telling other sovereign individuals how THEIR devices ought to be used.

Very "You're holding it wrong!" of you

I don’t think just having WiFi on but not connected really affects your battery life much.

Also I don’t think Apple really wants you turning the Bluetooth radio off anyway because that’s how the “find my” network functions.

If everyone decided to only turn on Bluetooth when needed, then “find my” would suck.

 

[iLuddite]

I don’t think just having WiFi on but not connected really affects your battery life much.

Also I don’t think Apple really wants you turning the Bluetooth radio off anyway because that’s how the “find my” network functions.

If everyone decided to only turn on Bluetooth when needed, then “find my” would suck.

Well fortunately the Find My Network is disable-able, too

 

[sbailey4]

Don't know if this has been mentioned. They removed the border lines around the folders and widgets on the homescreen. The widgets have a little at the top. Here's a before and after. Everything was set the same. Same wallpaper. Same home screen customization.

I'm seeing the opposite. The CarPlay Dashboard screen has lines around each of the windows - the icons, the map and the others. And the notifications have line around each of those, as well. Not a fan.
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I believe they have just changed it from a fixed “border” to more of the glass reflection that changes. If you move the device around you can see the border coming and going more than before. Same in control center too. It appears to me 26.1 is a little more glassy than 26.0.

 

[Dust-by-Monday]

Well fortunately the Find My Network is disable-able, too

I’m not sure if that actually disables the find my network from working. It might only disable your ability to find your things.

Edit: yep looks like you can indeed disable the find my network all together

 

[M3T]

Can’t seem to be able to get past the “Some iCloud data isn’t syncing” after setting up a new phone on 26.1. Just keeps spinning forever and disables settings app nav until you restart the app.

https://imgur.com/a/xOzrXrZ

 

[Tommy m]

Mail locks up for me and crashes. 17 pro max.

 

[ttam110]

Apple just replied to my feedback report that Wifi toggle now has the correct animation... small win 😂

Now if they can do the same for the alarm clock toggles...

 

[TheCart]

Isn't Hotspot with Maximize Compatibility turned off supposed to use 5GHz spectrum?

 

[Sniper08]

That's what I mean. There's worse glitches and bugs that are more glaring and common. It just seems like some people sit there and toggle wifi on and off all day and can't enjoy themselves because there's no special animation for it.

I don't even understand why people are turning wifi off anyway. Just leave it on. If you wanna disconnect from your current network, just use control center to disconnect for the day.

I think the dislike for it is that it's such a minor glitch from a user perspective that seems easy to fix that it demonstrates a lack of care. I obviously have no clue what goes into it, but I assume that all switches used the same underlying tools. It's also just discordant from my perspective; if a switch acts differently then I'm going to think something is different about it and will try to figure out what it is. Perhaps that's just my personality, but to me it's unusual behaviour like a checkbox list acting like a radio button list and letting me only select one and unselecting the others.

That said if I go camping for a week I'm gonna turn off my wifi because every bit of power is important to me, and I'd prefer to not bring a heavy battery bank.