I assume it might have to do with the bootloops and charging issues that people with 3rd party batteries reported. Hopefully someone can test to see if it has been resolved.
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iOS 26 Beta 1 ― Bug Fixes, Changes, and Improvements
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Imagine encountering a bootloop with your third party battery, painstakingly restoring to iOS 18.5, seeing this revised beta thinking "yep they fixed it" only to repeat the nightmare cause they fixed something obscure like a typo in an Apple Intelligence settings panel.
Any brave souls stepping up?
Wonder when we’ll get the controls text switching between light and dark automatically depending on background content, doesn’t seem to do this in beta 1
Fixed the drop frames on my 16PM, much smoother. I dont see any other changes.
Two things I’ve noticed:
1. In iOS 18, if I got an email, went into the Mail app (Apple’s pre-installed mail app) and swiped to delete it from the inbox without reading it, I’d then immediately get a notification come through of that email. Deleting an unread email by swiping it deleted from the inbox in the mail app no longer gives this erroneous notification in iOS 26. So one bug fixed ✅
2. Since iOS 18.4, played podcasts haven’t been deleting. I finished listening to a podcast on iOS 26 yesterday, and today I’m pleased to see that it’s now been automatically deleted. So a second bug fixed ✅✅
1. In iOS 18, if I got an email, went into the Mail app (Apple’s pre-installed mail app) and swiped to delete it from the inbox without reading it, I’d then immediately get a notification come through of that email. Deleting an unread email by swiping it deleted from the inbox in the mail app no longer gives this erroneous notification in iOS 26. So one bug fixed ✅
2. Since iOS 18.4, played podcasts haven’t been deleting. I finished listening to a podcast on iOS 26 yesterday, and today I’m pleased to see that it’s now been automatically deleted. So a second bug fixed ✅✅
The new build is a lot smoother on my 16PM. Not seeing any of the dropped frames/jitteriness I was experiencing since Monday.
Noticed the update did not seem to cause my 16 and 15 to not warm up as much as they had been doing after changes. Yes, they each had smaller delta updates and so far both do seem to be running smoother. Having said that, they both ran remarkably well with the first release.
Installed the update.
Phone disconnecting and reconnecting to Anker Qi2 battery pack is not fixed.
Icons needing to be redrawn when swiping from one home screen to another is not fixed.
So I'll venture a guess that the rest of the show stoppers haven't been fixed either.
Phone disconnecting and reconnecting to Anker Qi2 battery pack is not fixed.
Icons needing to be redrawn when swiping from one home screen to another is not fixed.
So I'll venture a guess that the rest of the show stoppers haven't been fixed either.
The screen just woke up on my 16 pm with a notification, the new change with that is that it said I was on a slow charger, and it had not displayed that prior to today's firmware release.
Another to add. Since 18.4, Mail notifications have sometimes just been going straight to Notification Centre, without lighting up the Lock Screen, etc. That’s not occurred once on iOS 26, so I’m marking that as fixed too!
Just noticed this added HDR Boost for the hilighter in Markup
My 16PM was running extremely hot, jittery, and I was having to charge 2x a day. New seed is running substantially cooler and smoother. Helps explain the differences in anecdotes I was reading around this build running smoothly on some devices.
Not really smoother for me, but definitely not as hot as it was
I installed the original beta last night on my iPhone 16 Pro (using IPSW) and today it’s been running fine. Not getting any overheating and battery life seems to be the same as iOS 18.5. It’s still very smooth using apps. There are sometimes frames dropping when on the home screen, notification center, or wherever liquid glass shows up, but overall it’s not as terrible as some of the posts here have convinced me to believe.
