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

[RSmith2023]

On my iPhone 15 with Compact bar what happens is that I see the full [core] website address when the bar is in its smallest (passive mode), yet it gets weirdly right-aligned from the end when the bar is in full (its largest mode), as in the pics below. Reported to Apple.

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So in the bottom example I would expect the address to read: “forums.macrumors.com”

Mine is ok… scrolling or not

 

[VSMacOne]

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.

That was my suspicion as well.

 

[HouseLannister]

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

It’s actually incremental backups and might still be there, but no guarantees. I rolled back from DB4 to 18.5 and it still had my backup (multiple backups) in the cloud.

 

[Tubamajuba]

I can't believe how far iOS 26 has come since the first beta. It was the laggiest beta I've used since iOS 7 beta 1 on the iPhone 4 and by far the ugliest rendition of iOS I've ever seen. iOS 26 beta 6 is beautiful and butter smooth. The glassy elements have been heavily refined to show off the... well, glassiness... yet the readability in most places has been greatly improved. It now runs as well as iOS 18.6 did (at least for me) so kudos to the developers!

 

[Mlrollin91]

Anyone running revised Beta 6 along with watchOS 11.6.1? Curious to know if Oxygen sensors works without needing to be on 18.6.1. I’m having some very annoying bugs on 18.6/18.6.1 that are surprisingly not present in iOS 26. I’ve verified with a second device. Just want to make sure my watch will continue to work on 11.6.1.

 

[thatJohann]

When you swipe into a messages chat, the text box has this buggy split animation that then becomes a single text box. Hope it’s fixed. Looks very ugly in motion.

 

[sbailey4]

Anyone running revised Beta 6 along with watchOS 11.6.1? Curious to know if Oxygen sensors works without needing to be on 18.6.1. I’m having some very annoying bugs on 18.6/18.6.1 that are surprisingly not present in iOS 26. I’ve verified with a second device. Just want to make sure my watch will continue to work on 11.6.1.

I believe there were some posts above that stated it was NOT working still on 26. I dont have a watch so cant confirm.

 

[batting1000]

Anyone running revised Beta 6 along with watchOS 11.6.1? Curious to know if Oxygen sensors works without needing to be on 18.6.1. I’m having some very annoying bugs on 18.6/18.6.1 that are surprisingly not present in iOS 26. I’ve verified with a second device. Just want to make sure my watch will continue to work on 11.6.1.

I have iOS 26 beta 6 + watchOS 11.6.1 on a series 10 and I’m not seeing support for the Blood Oxygen stuff yet, even with today’s revised build. Still says in my Health app that it’s not supported.

 

[simba4]

Revised beta had been shipped!

Build iOS 26.0 (23A5318f)

 

[Apple_Robert]

I have iOS 26 beta 6 + watchOS 11.6.1 on a series 10 and I’m not seeing support for the Blood Oxygen stuff yet, even with today’s revised build. Still says in my Health app that it’s not supported.

The new pulse ox ability is not available with the beta.

 

[cwosigns]

Revised beta had been shipped!

Build iOS 26.0 (23A5318f)

Interesting; the last beta 6 released ended in a c.

 

[Mlrollin91]

I believe there were some posts above that stated it was NOT working still on 26. I dont have a watch so cant confirm.

I have iOS 26 beta 6 + watchOS 11.6.1 on a series 10 and I’m not seeing support for the Blood Oxygen stuff yet, even with today’s revised build. Still says in my Health app that it’s not supported.

Thank you both. I assumed this was the case but wanted to check anyway. I’m on 18.6.1 and 11.6.1 and O2 is working on my UW2. I’ll wait for Beta 7 and check again!

 

[sbailey4]

Interesting; the last beta 6 released ended in a c.

The letter equates to the number of compiles (new tweaks or changes) to a particular build they do before completion. A=1, B=2 etc. So basically they made 3 more compiles or changes of this build (d,e,f) before they signed it off and released it.

 

[simba4]

Interesting; the last beta 6 released ended in a c.

Just installed it on iPhone 14Pro!

 

[one more]

Mine is ok… scrolling or not

You are using a different tab layout - “Bottom”, whereas mine is set to default “Compact”.

 

[sbassios]

With the re-release everything is even better, especially the animations and the open close on home screen

 

[greg624]

Saw reports that blood oxygen starts working after using ECG one time.

 

[emoon3]

Just noticed I no longer have hold or merge buttons in the phone app. Was this functionality moved somewhere?