iOS 26 Beta 7 ― Bug Fixes, Changes, and Improvements

[one more]

always used dual sim on my 15PM. before on ios18 while on phone app before dialing a number i was able to choose wich sim would make the call. now on ios26 its no longer available and cant find it nowhere
anyone else?

I can choose the SIM line in the top-left corner of the dialler in the Phone app.

 

[one more]

What have Apple done in safari with this update. Getting a few visual glitches which wasn’t present on B6. I’m getting a weird “slide-in” animation on the keyboard too. Video attached.

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I cannot reproduce it on my iPhone 15, maybe try [force] restarting yours?

 

[weather34]

watch app changes ?

 

[13paul13]

Can anyone else with a Hotmail/Outlook account confirm that emails being marked as read or deleted in the Mail app are having these changes actually reflected on the server/in Outlook and are not just confined to the Mail app?
This does not appear to be happening with Gmail or other accounts.

I’m on Beta 6 still.

For my hotmail.com account I’ve just marked 2 emails as read in Mail.app. I’ve also just deleted another email. Afterwards I’ve logged into Outlook.com in Safari and the emails marked as read are showing as having been read, and the one I deleted is in the deleted folder.

I don’t often log in to Outlook.com. But I can’t say I’ve seen any issues even from Beta 1 with changes made in iOS 26 Mail.app being reflected in the Mail.app on my iOS 18 devices (and vice versa).

 

[one more]

9to5mac is completely broken as far as light and dark mode 😂 when my phones in light mode the website is dark, and then in dark mode it’s light

Works fine on mine.

 

[one more]

I know about the indexing but I’ve noticed small visual quirks here and there that weren’t in beta 6. Something seems a little regressed in this beta 7.

Tried force restarting?

 

[MrRom92]

I’m on Beta 6 still.

For my hotmail.com account I’ve just marked 2 emails as read in Mail.app. I’ve also just deleted another email. Afterwards I’ve logged into Outlook.com in Safari and the emails marked as read are showing as having been read, and the one I deleted is in the deleted folder.

I don’t often log in to Outlook.com. But I can’t say I’ve seen any issues even from Beta 1 with changes made in iOS 26 Mail.app being reflected in the Mail.app on my iOS 18 devices (and vice versa).

Thank you SO much for checking this, really weird stuff. I’m going to delete and re-add the account to see if that does anything.

 

[greg624]

Works fine on mine.

Yeah I had to tap the toggle on the website and it started working lol

 

[GC251114]

I may be wrong , but to me the notification banner when appearing from top of phone certainly looks more frosted to me compared to beta 6.

 

[HouseLannister]

What have Apple done in safari with this update. Getting a few visual glitches which wasn’t present on B6. I’m getting a weird “slide-in” animation on the keyboard too. Video attached.

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That might have been spotted last beta in a separate thread. At least that's what I think he is describing(?)

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/keyboard-does-a-weird-shimmy-to-the-left.2463449/

 

[papbot]

Icons still repopulating when quickly scrolling through homepages, using the slider. 16pro.

I’ve been complaining about this on my M4 iPad Pro. It began with the first beta I installed on it which was beta 2. Still present in this release, swipe between pages and everything has to refill or repopulate, as you mentioned. Some of this is evident on my 16 Pro Max on 18.6 as well, mainly in Safari, but not when swiping between Home Screens. That is really bad on the iPad.

 

[nardobenz]

The animations are pretty fast. Safari scrolling doesn’t feel like 120hz and the keyboard lags when you type fast still. 16pm b7

 

[ddsdude]

I’m assuming still no RCS UP 3.0?

 

[greg624]

saturation bug on Home Screen when you edit lock screen. Have to go to a different lock screen wallpaper and go back for it to fix. Was like this in beta 6 as well. Reporting in feedback.

 

[Simacca]

I’ve been complaining about this on my M4 iPad Pro. It began with the first beta I installed on it which was beta 2. Still present in this release, swipe between pages and everything has to refill or repopulate, as you mentioned. Some of this is evident on my 16 Pro Max on 18.6 as well, mainly in Safari, but not when swiping between Home Screens. That is really bad on the iPad.

The funny thing is, I don’t have this problem on my M1 iPad Pro on iOS 26. Just my 16pro. It’s really annoying.

 

[HouseLannister]

I’m assuming still no RCS UP 3.0?

Code has been spotted.

Texting between Android and iPhone could soon get a major security upgrade

iOS 26 could finally bring end-to-end encryption to RCS, securing conversations between iPhone and Android users with the MLS protocol.

www.androidauthority.com

 

[lazy_desi_]

Modem firmwate

• iPhone 16e: 2.00.07

 

[Micool1]

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The way, the glassy outline pops in after the app closing animation, is driving me mad!
That cannot be the way it’s supposed to look! With folders, the way the outline is animated on closure is different, it does not pop at all!

But with normal app icons, it just looks cheap. I cannot unsee it, even in light mode, the outline just pops in after the closing animation is compete.
Feedback provided already with b5 and b6, seems no one cares thou.

This has been annoying me since Beta 1

 

[thatJohann]

Tried force restarting?

I did.

In addition to all the minor regressions I've spotted in beta 7, the keyboard is lagging for me when typing in beta 7 and it wasn't on beta 6 at all. I already tried hard restart, hope it's the indexing being weird, altho in beta 6 i had no such issues even while it was indexing...

 

[Hamsterhjulet]

That might have been spotted last beta in a separate thread. At least that's what I think he is describing(?)

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/keyboard-does-a-weird-shimmy-to-the-left.2463449/

That does sound like it. Wonder if it’s something do to with extension? I’m using 1Blocker and Noir.

 

[Kylo83]

The animations are pretty fast. Safari scrolling doesn’t feel like 120hz and the keyboard lags when you type fast still. 16pm b7

This is shocking the keyboard lag in iOS 18 with 16 pro max drives me crazy; to hear it’s the same in iOS 26 means maybe it’s the phone issue or apple haven’t bothered to fix it

 

[thatJohann]

Another issue I'm having, some apps are getting stuck in updating with no way of stopping the update, also didn't happen in beta 6.

I can't even delete the apps, let alone use them, they're just stuck in limbo...

Ugh, I should've stayed in beta 6.

 

[oDannyR]

saturation bug on Home Screen when you edit lock screen. Have to go to a different lock screen wallpaper and go back for it to fix. Was like this in beta 6 as well. Reporting in feedback.

I have this exact issue that arose in beta 6. Have also reported. Interestingly, a way to fix it is to enable Always On Display. I’ve also noticed that whenever I edit a lock screen image, the clock defaults to full size on the screen and it never saves when I enable depth effect.

 

[MrRom92]

I’m on Beta 6 still.

For my hotmail.com account I’ve just marked 2 emails as read in Mail.app. I’ve also just deleted another email. Afterwards I’ve logged into Outlook.com in Safari and the emails marked as read are showing as having been read, and the one I deleted is in the deleted folder.

I don’t often log in to Outlook.com. But I can’t say I’ve seen any issues even from Beta 1 with changes made in iOS 26 Mail.app being reflected in the Mail.app on my iOS 18 devices (and vice versa).

Thank you SO much for checking this, really weird stuff. I’m going to delete and re-add the account to see if that does anything.

Update - deleting and re-adding the account did the trick. Not sure what that was all about since it was working fine while still on iOS 18, but at least it’s all sorted now!
That’s one less major headache I’ve had since jumping on the beta! It’s practically perfect now as far as I’m concerned. Just want the general stability we’d get from an RC and I’m set.

 

[dwrufus53]

I’m just excited to see if the new blood oxygen workaround is implemented

My phone is running DP7; my watch is on watchOS 11.6.1. The new way of the blood oxygen applet is working as Apple said it would. Run the diagnostic on the watch and see the results in the Health app on the phone. I have pinned the Blood Oxygen setting to the Home Screen in the Health app. Had to dig for it the first time that I tried it.