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

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I installed this beta 1 yesterday, and I'm honestly surprised by how well it's working for a beta 1. The battery drains a little faster, I guess it'll improve a bit over time, and everything works more or less fine.
Visual Intelligence is stuck and isn't working. It always tells me it's downloading, but Apple Intelligence is completely discharged. I don't know what it's downloading or how long it needs. Apple should address this and show more clearly what it's doing, because it looks like the download has been paused, or maybe it's had all night to download whatever it needs.
 
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For the very first beta it works pretty fine for me on the 15 Pro.
Don’t regret jumping on the beta so far.
Curious how this all will evolve over the upcoming weeks with the upcoming betas.
 
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Reeneman said:
For the very first beta it works pretty fine for me on the 15 Pro.
Don’t regret jumping on the beta so far.
Curious how this all will evolve over the upcoming weeks with the upcoming betas.
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I usually jump on the first beta knowing the risks and in the past two years, the betas have been very stable.

I am reading mixed opinions on this first beta, so I have been holding off installing it on my main device.

How soon do you think it will be until BETA 2 arrives? I think I will jump on that one right away.
 
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I usually jump on the first beta knowing the risks and in the past two years, the betas have been very stable.

I am reading mixed opinions on this first beta, so I have been holding off installing it on my main device.

How soon do you think it will be until BETA 2 arrives? I think I will jump on that one right away.
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Beta 2 /3 usually is way more unstable than beta 1 - so I don’t recommend waiting for beta 2/3, instead wait for beta 4 maybe?
 
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I just installed it on my iPhone 16 Pro and here are some things I hate. Yes HATE, no don’t like, actually hate.

1. Is it just me or is Safari’s new address bar way more distracting than before? They’ve clearly tried to make it more subtle, but that blurry, floating bubble now just blocks part of the page and keeps pulling my eyes away from the actual content. Same goes for the top. Everything’s blurred out and it feels like visual noise.

2. why is everything so rounded … especially in the settings. Wastes so much space. My phone screen suddenly feels smaller.

3. with so much glossy effects everywhere, you’d think the keyboard is also somewhat transparent? But nope. Seems inconsistent

4. don’t like the shade of blue they used for the active state in control center. It’s too dark and found no where else on iOS. It screams Android to me for some reason.
 
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Just had my first re-spring but other than that everything seems to be running smoothly in beta 1 terms.
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Same, experienced a re-spring this morning. This is the behavior that usually keeps me off betas but in all fairness I was experiencing many random re-springs on normal versions of iOS lately anyway
 
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1. Is it just me or is Safari’s new address bar way more distracting than before? They’ve clearly tried to make it more subtle, but that blurry, floating bubble now just blocks part of the page and keeps pulling my eyes away from the actual content. Same goes for the top. Everything’s blurred out and it feels like visual noise.
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Yeah, the blur + fade at the top and bottom of safari are driving me up the wall. It effectively reduces the content window by a huge amount!

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2. why is everything so rounded … especially in the settings. Wastes so much space. My phone screen suddenly feels smaller.
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I'm also hating the additional padding everywhere. Maybe reduced information density is a scheme to sell more larger phones or something?


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3. with so much glossy effects everywhere, you’d think the keyboard is also somewhat transparent? But nope. Seems inconsistent
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Watching the developer intro to Liquid Glass, it seems like apps built using the new Xcode will get the new keyboard automatically. Just need to wait for apps to get on board. Not sure why Apple didn't just go for it, though, the change is so minor.

And yeah, the blue is a weird shade.

TL;DR: agree on all counts.
 
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don’t like the shade of blue they used for the active state in control center. It’s too dark and found no where else on iOS. It screams Android to me for some reason.
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Huh? It’s too light on my phone. Like someone used a neon blue highlighter.

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Speaking of blue… the checkboxes are ridiculously large. And an entirely different shade of blue... very un-glassy(?)

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How do you filter unknown senders out of the messages list? Mine appear in the main view marked “Unknown sender”.
 
I have it on my iPhone 11. As it’s not my main device I switch it off until I want to play with the beta again.

I have a 4x2 widget stack on my Home Screen, containing Weather and Reminders. Today I’ve encountered a bug - when I’ve turned the phone on, there’s another widget in the stack. iOS has added a battery widget to it. (I’ve never used the battery widget in my life.)

Edit: It’s no longer showing the battery widget within the stack. (It’s removed of its own accord - I hadn’t yet edited it to remove it.)
 
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I wonder what‘s changed. If there are any UX changes or changes users can notice, or if it‘s just fixing behind the scenes bugs that can potentially cause bricks.

Wish Apple updated their change notes with rereleases to highlight new things.
 
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