iOS 26 Beta 6 ― Bug Fixes, Changes, and Improvements

[HouseLannister]

iPhone 16 Pro, 9.69 GB (same as Monday’s release)



1:25 — Update Requested…

1:28 — Preparing Update…

1:53 — Verifying update…

1:55 — Installing… (Apple logo and progress bar)

2:02 — Installation complete

 

[Al Ferguson]

The developer beta has been re-released, likely just a parity update with 18.6.1 today.

Doesn't look like it. There is no Apple Watch update (before or after iOS update) and the Health app still says BO2 is still unavailable.

 

[ShaneSparkyYYZ]

Updated to the latest rerelease on my 15PM and it’s still good so far. A few stutters when unlocking the phone and going to the Home Screen, but after that seems fine.

With Reduce Transparency on, Notifications in notification center has a clear box and then fills in dark a second later. Other than that, no show stopper issues.

Looking forward to the next beta and hopefully it addresses those.

 

[J Ham]

Doesn't look like it. There is no Apple Watch update (before or after iOS update) and the Health app still says BO2 is still unavailable.

Same here, I really hope there's a new watch beta pushed out...

 

[COBRASVT]

Delete

 

[WildstarBR2020]

Any hints on why did we get a rerelease?

 

[Reeneman]

Are the animations slowed down or is it the same speed as in DB 6 (1.).

 

[dimon2242]

No issue here. Daughter used it daily for her iPad.

Try resetting network settings.

In 12 hrs it magically works)

 

[drinkingtea]

Reset network settings

That did not work.

 

[greg624]

They fixed most of the wallpaper glitches on beta 6 but on the revised version they’re broken again 🙄🙄🙄

Edit: fixed after a reset

 

[DDustiNN]

View attachment 2537596

Happy to be of service.

 

[youdontsay]

Just been using pb3 for the past hour. Lots of animations refined/tweaked and smoothed out/more responsive. But the speed of the animations in the onboarding or when opening apps is a bug that’s for sure. It feels unnatural and un Apple.

 

[Reeneman]

Seems to be a bug this year with the incremental OTA updates.
The updates are by far not as big as listed on the update screen.

 

[papbot]

Doesn't look like it. There is no Apple Watch update (before or after iOS update) and the Health app still says BO2 is still unavailable.

There are watch updates both in 26 and 11.6.1.

 

[nortonandreev]

Seems to be a bug this year with the incremental OTA updates.
The updates are by far not as big as listed on the update screen.

Yeah, this has been going on for the past few betas now.

 

[Kylo83]

Just been using pb3 for the past hour. Lots of animations refined/tweaked and smoothed out/more responsive. But the speed of the animations in the onboarding or when opening apps is a bug that’s for sure. It feels unnatural and un Apple.

Yeah people have said it’s nice how fast it is but I know apple will slow it back down, it’s a bug, it happened a few years back during a beta cycle

 

[revs]

Any hints on why did we get a rerelease?

Not sure if its true, but I saw a post stating the the feedback app wasnt correctly collecting the sysdiagnose logs, and this could be to fix that.

 

[Reeneman]

Are the animations slowed down or is it the same speed as in DB 6 (1.).

In my opinion gently slowed down. Still fast.

 

[Stiille]

In my opinion gently slowed down. Still fast.

Quite a bit slowed down in my eyes

 

[Séamus Boyle]

There are watch updates both in 26 and 11.6.1.

No revised build for Apple Watch developer beta.

 

[MDTyKe]

In Spotlight search, I still can't hold down on the text and move my finger (as cursor) to choose the letter. It glows so bright it blinds the text lol. A workaround is to do it by holding the spacebar I suppose.

Also, Spotlight blatantly ignores my request in settings to not have its Contents appear in the search. Sigh. I only use Spotlight as an App searcher.

 

[thatJohann]

 

[RSmith2023]

Would I be able to have both a iOS 18.6 and iOS 26 backup in iCloud or would the iOS 26 override the 18.6?

You can have multiple locally, but only 1 per unique device in iCloud

 

[RSmith2023]

Dark backgrounds seem to cause issues with red color on the lock screen. Feedback submitted. View attachment 2536976

Well it IS semi-transparent, right? That is going to happen.

 

[Tomas1988]

Seems to be a bug this year with the incremental OTA updates.
The updates are by far not as big as listed on the update screen.

For me too much bigger