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iOS 26 Beta 1 ― Bug Fixes, Changes, and Improvements

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JKidwell86 said:
anyone else having issues with remote? Crashing every time for me
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anyone find a workaround/fix for this? it's literally only crashing on my iOS device. iPad and Watch all work on DB1. Purely a nuisance thing, but a nuisance it is. Other than this, working surprisingly well for a DB1.
 
This is big: iOS 26 adds a TelephonyMessagingSDK that allows third parties to send and manage RCS/SMS/MMS as a new default app.

www.heise.de

Phone and text messages: Apple opens up core iPhone functions in the EU

RCS/SMS messages and telephony have always only been available in Apple's Phone and Messages app. That will change soon.
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developer.apple.com

TelephonyMessagingKit | Apple Developer Documentation

Send and receive standards-based messages over cellular networks.
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That pretty much settles whether there is UP3.0, seeing as the SDK has no way to send reactions or replies, undo / edit messages etc. It‘s just basic texting like RCS offers in iOS 18.
 
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igauravarora said:
My impressions of iOS 26 on iPhone 16 Pro-

1. Battery life is acceptable, not as goods iOS 18 but I would say for me it's like 80-90% of what iOS 18 was.

2. Design is alright, I am kinda neutral to it maybe because it's new idk. There are inconsistencies across the OS like the bottom tab bar in clock app, the current tab selected in shown in "Yellow" Colour like it has always been but in other apps it's blue like Notes. It's unnecessarily bouncy for my taste. I like the Music Player's design and audio mix feature.

3. Animations are choppy and frame drops everywhere even in some light games. I have never seen my 16pro lag before this beta but it eventually settles down. Initial time is rough. On the second day it got better but it's still stutters and lags.

4. AI. I hardly use these features but whenever I did iPhone just ***** the bed. Playground app is like useless to me. So many times it went to generate image but never gave me the result especially on Chatgpt style.

5. Messages app is a hit or miss for me. All the OTP I get from the third party apps never showed up in my notifications. I opened the messages app and it was gone into "Transactions" tab but it never showed up as a notification. Kinda needs fixing a bit. Had to cancel some transactions before I could figure out what was happening.

6. Initially it did overheat a bit but then it calmed down after a few hours. Second day, my phone didn't get hot at all but overall system is slow and janky which is expected as its first beta.

7. Torch toggle is a hit or miss as well for me. I regularly turn on the torch from lock screen and it's like 70% hit or miss. it goes into edit wallpaper section when pressed for turning on the torch. I had to intentionally look for the button and turn it on. It has become a muscle memory for me to turn on the torch but something in iOS 26 definitely had it wrong.

8. Sometimes screen doesn't react to touch. there are a lot of misses on touch interactions throughout OS.

9. Cellular connectivity has also been slow for me as compared to iOS 18. It needs tweaking.

10. Always on lock screen blur wallpaper is neat plus the lock screen depth effect on photos. That (Spacial Scene) was kinda trippy but fun but I don't think I will be using that feature often. Photos apps is like pre iOS 18 which is a relief.

I don't feel like it's a big leap forward. If you were bored of the iOS 18 style design then maybe it's a big deal but I feel iOS 18 looked and felt better (Personal opinion). All this glassy stuff is gonna add more weight on the cpu and gpu imo. It's like an extra overhead with all the new bouncy and glassy animations etc.
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Make sure to file a case in the feedback app for each of your observations !
 
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Laggy said:
hat the **** are you talking? redesign? it is not redesign, they changed some buttons, corners, and you call it redesign?
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Would agree here. Calling it a system wide re-design might be accurate for the apple marketing but in reality it’s not that big.
 
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Laggy said:
hat the **** are you talking? redesign? it is not redesign, they changed some buttons, corners, and you call it redesign?
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I don’t think that was actually the point he was trying to make! I agree with him…. Betas now days are so much more stable than they used to be!
 
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kevman8396 said:
Has anyone noticed that 3rd party apps icons are kind of fuzzy? The Apple apps icons are crystal clear
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Yep, it seems like they are a little clearer while in dark mode but I believe that most apps need to be run through the icon composer Apple has now to be updated for 26.
 
igauravarora said:
My impressions of iOS 26 on iPhone 16 Pro-

1. Battery life is acceptable, not as goods iOS 18 but I would say for me it's like 80-90% of what iOS 18 was.

2. Design is alright, I am kinda neutral to it maybe because it's new idk. There are inconsistencies across the OS like the bottom tab bar in clock app, the current tab selected in shown in "Yellow" Colour like it has always been but in other apps it's blue like Notes. It's unnecessarily bouncy for my taste. I like the Music Player's design and audio mix feature.

3. Animations are choppy and frame drops everywhere even in some light games. I have never seen my 16pro lag before this beta but it eventually settles down. Initial time is rough. On the second day it got better but it's still stutters and lags.

4. AI. I hardly use these features but whenever I did iPhone just ***** the bed. Playground app is like useless to me. So many times it went to generate image but never gave me the result especially on Chatgpt style.

5. Messages app is a hit or miss for me. All the OTP I get from the third party apps never showed up in my notifications. I opened the messages app and it was gone into "Transactions" tab but it never showed up as a notification. Kinda needs fixing a bit. Had to cancel some transactions before I could figure out what was happening.

6. Initially it did overheat a bit but then it calmed down after a few hours. Second day, my phone didn't get hot at all but overall system is slow and janky which is expected as its first beta.

7. Torch toggle is a hit or miss as well for me. I regularly turn on the torch from lock screen and it's like 70% hit or miss. it goes into edit wallpaper section when pressed for turning on the torch. I had to intentionally look for the button and turn it on. It has become a muscle memory for me to turn on the torch but something in iOS 26 definitely had it wrong.

8. Sometimes screen doesn't react to touch. there are a lot of misses on touch interactions throughout OS.

9. Cellular connectivity has also been slow for me as compared to iOS 18. It needs tweaking.

10. Always on lock screen blur wallpaper is neat plus the lock screen depth effect on photos. That (Spacial Scene) was kinda trippy but fun but I don't think I will be using that feature often. Photos apps is like pre iOS 18 which is a relief.

I don't feel like it's a big leap forward. If you were bored of the iOS 18 style design then maybe it's a big deal but I feel iOS 18 looked and felt better (Personal opinion). All this glassy stuff is gonna add more weight on the cpu and gpu imo. It's like an extra overhead with all the new bouncy and glassy animations etc.
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Great! Send feedback to Apple please
 
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Anybody else having issues opening documents from files straight in to their relevant apps?

Also excel documents on email attachments (Apple Mail) seem to open in another email client that I have.

Has anybody found a setting that lets you change this behaviour?
 
Everyone should expect Battery Life to be horrid. Any frame rate issues should also be expected. Again, these are not things they are worried about AT ALL. It's the first beta of a new OS. There won't be any optimizations done to address any Battery Issues and Screen Frame Rate issues until we get close to, or even the RC.

Hopefully everyone remembers to submit feedback. Now's the time... In 3 weeks, things will be locked down for the most part.
 
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I agree with some of the posts above saying that this is not a redesign. Not that it matters - it's just marketing.

iOS 26 will, hopefully, have an improved UI over the betas and look ok.

A redesign, according to me anyway 😁, would include:

* Different dock design, or no dock
* Adjustable icon sizes (hence varying number of rows/columns)
* Folders showing more than 9 icons
* App library that can have the apps categorised manually, as it's often wrong
* Consistent UI for stock apps.
* Redesign of the lock screen interface. I still accidentally go into edit/swipe mode.
* Remove the swipe right to access the camera on locked phones.

Off the top of my head.
 
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Preface all of these with "Yes, I realize this is the first developer beta in a major update cycle."
  • Battery life is bad (see above), however I've never run into an issue before where a phone would lose power while being on a MagSafe 2 battery pack (the Anker 10k one with the screen), while simply updating apps.
    • Phone would DISCONNECT from the battery pack after about 2 seconds, reconnect, disconnect, etc.
  • Stuttering animations, icons always redrawing if you change home screens.
  • CarPlay is straight up broken.
    • Does not auto connect.
    • The phone recognizes that it's connect to a power source, but in order to connect, you have to unlock the phone, open Music, and press play (the lock screen live activity doesn't cut it). The car headhunt will recognize music being pushed "iPod style" after which the phone sends the "CarPlay signal."
  • Weird UI button glitches in Music. The Add button in Liquid Glass was over (or under?) another button and neither worked.
    • I had to add that single by long pressing on the art from the search page and choosing Add.
  • Liquid Glass keyboard is not constantly applied across apps (though this could be an app issue).
  • Quick reply in Messages does not work. It loads a gray block where the quick reply should be.
  • Location doesn't work for some contacts, despite them showing up in Find My just fine.
 
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EugW said:
This is not true.
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They're obviously going to be addressing various issues all along the way, for sure. But the Indexing and extra "Beta Stuff" that's included that reduces Battery Life will be there all Summer until the RC. Frame Rate issues may be addressed thru addressing other issues, but they won't "focus on that" issue until the RC or maybe the couple betas before.. Still, we're looking at all Summer with these expected issues.
 
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gank41 said:
They're obviously going to be addressing various issues all along the way, for sure. But the Indexing and extra "Beta Stuff" that's included that reduces Battery Life will be there all Summer until the RC. Frame Rate issues may be addressed thru addressing other issues, but they won't "focus on that" issue until the RC or maybe the couple betas before.. Still, we're looking at all Summer with these expected issues.
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So IOW, what you originally said isn’t true. Performance and the various issues will gradually improve over the coming betas.

What I find is that in general, there is usually a vast improvement by dev beta 3 / public beta 1.
 
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