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iOS 26 Beta 1 ― Bug Fixes, Changes, and Improvements
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Poor accessibility in a beta redesign is nothing new. iOS 7.0 was even worse than this, you couldn't even turn off motion or transparency effects until a few updates after final release.
I remember iOS 7 beta and no, it was not as bad as this one is. Indeed, it was riddled with issues, but this version is taking a whole new approach to marking things as illegible as possible.
I get it’s not a final product but this is from Apple’s website. How could anyone see this and think it looks good? I’m getting queasy just looking at it. How does this even make it into a first beta? The text is really hard to read. I guarantee you reactions would be different if the transparency was reduced in certain places. You can still retain the ‘glassy’ look but text is legible.
And control center…my god, what is this abomination? How in the world did this make it into a beta?
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After a night of sleeping on it: why are the app icons so big? It reminds me of a phone for elderly.
how could you do this? In my Volvo XC60 it only shows 1 stack of widgets in the middle of the screen and i can swipe through them. I would love to see them side by side
Please tell me how favorites work now (in the new mode, not classic) in the phone app. What does it look like if you have say a dozen favorites?
It’s likely to be dependant on the car itself size of the screen
could be. but there is so much space, you could fit like 2x2 widgets. hopefully they will adress that in future betas
I think even in the previous 18 car play it needed more work on the multi view about being able to choose what each section showed and where it was
This feels like an alpha release, very far from beta state. In 15 years of beta testing every single major release, I’ve never seen a first dev beta so laggy, full of bugs (visual and non), messy and resource consuming. I was hoping that this would be the year of a stability and performance oriented release, given the truckload of bugs we’ve had since iOS 16, but they’ve gone in the exact opposite direction.
The new design is awful, hard to read, ugly and for the most part, unnecessary. Feels like a low tier Xiaomi or Oppo device, the professional and sleek look that iOS had since the beginning is gone. After 18 years of iPhone, this is the end for me. I hope future betas will at least improve some of the critical areas of this first design release, at least to keep the iPad usable.
The new design is awful, hard to read, ugly and for the most part, unnecessary. Feels like a low tier Xiaomi or Oppo device, the professional and sleek look that iOS had since the beginning is gone. After 18 years of iPhone, this is the end for me. I hope future betas will at least improve some of the critical areas of this first design release, at least to keep the iPad usable.
Doesn't work for me with the homescreen widgets.
I can't drag or drop them, I can' make the clock size any smaller.
The widgets are below the clock when I'm editing then, but then go down to the bottom after finishing editing them.
It took more than 4 hours to install the beta on my watch series 10, super strange, I connected it to the charger with around 47% when it was almost finishing to prepare the update, the it iníciate automatically as always but remained on the apple logo loop for hours, the battery dropped to 42% and was charging slow on the fast charger from apple, when it get to 45 the apple logo rebooted with the first more shiny screen and the the opaque one, but never finished the install. I hard rebooted the watch 2 times because i thought it was stuck. Also the app on the iPhone if you were on the update page it would show as installing, if you leave to another app and return it will show as installed and when you go back and search again the update it would show again as installing (As a comment I made a few pages ago here). I finally left the watch loop for hours and went to sleep as I’m in Europe. Counting since I left the watch to install (10:45pm) when i left it be at 2 something in the morning, it took more than 4 hrs, at 7:15 am it was at the hello screen with 85% battery charged.
First time that this happened after years and years of betas on all my Apple Watches.
First time that this happened after years and years of betas on all my Apple Watches.
That doesn't work either. I can't get it back like I had it in 18. Now my wallpapers look bad.
Installed on my m1 ipad pro 11.
Most things work, though I have had 3 re-springs (ie UI crash/restart) just in 10s minutes of usage. Seems to happen when scrolling right on the desktop and the app library is shown (which is a little jerky). This includes after the high cpu has settled overnight.
iPad is less critical/easier to reinstall so held off on 16 PM *for now*
Most things work, though I have had 3 re-springs (ie UI crash/restart) just in 10s minutes of usage. Seems to happen when scrolling right on the desktop and the app library is shown (which is a little jerky). This includes after the high cpu has settled overnight.
iPad is less critical/easier to reinstall so held off on 16 PM *for now*
I love that content cache information is shown in WiFi settings and you can perform a speed test.
Doesn’t seem to exist in macOS but I only had a quick check.
Doesn’t seem to exist in macOS but I only had a quick check.
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If you have iPhone 15 Pro and newer, iOS 26 is for you.
If you have iPhone 15 and older, best to stay on iOS 18.x or whatever version you are using.
If you have iPhone 15 and older, best to stay on iOS 18.x or whatever version you are using.
anyone else having problems seeing cameras in the Home App?
I can see all Eufy Cams but all Circle View's are not responding ...
I can see all Eufy Cams but all Circle View's are not responding ...
You can turn off transparency effects, which kills them systemwide. I‘d be fine if they introduced a reduce liquid glass effects toggle, so only the liquid class UX is toned down.
Liquid glass either gave me the sudden realization that my eyesight is drastically dropping or it‘s simply ineligible design. I surely can‘t be the only one scratching my head at how this was greenlit this way.