Do it, it’s so smooth and runs fast on my 15 PM and battery life is good too
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iOS 26 Beta 7 ― Bug Fixes, Changes, and Improvements
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Do it, it’s so smooth and runs fast on my 15 PM and battery life is good too
I’m almost there! From what I’ve seen performance and speed are top notch. I wonder how battery life will be on a smaller 16 Pro
You have to overcome temptation, so click on software update 😅😁
The revert back to frost sucks. It’s basically the same as iOS 18 now, just a bit more frost and blur.
Are you using a different beta than me? For me it’s clearly a huge difference between iOS 18 and iOS 26
Artemis Prime has a nice new glassy wallpaper for the iphone
maybe one thing to add to the "a" build hype ...
Yes, indeed it has some importance as the QA (Quality Assurance) released already the first build and didn't find any issues, which would have led to a subsequent "b" and upper builds. So this build can be considered as pretty ok, but following beta might require more builds again especially if the introduced or changed something.
Therefore not really linked to a 'release build' ...
That’s not true. There are clearly new design elements. Overall the new design is by far not that big or groundbreaking as advertised. The way we will use the phone will stay the same. There are just some visual updated elements and some buttons are now on the bottom.
The amount of glass/transparency highly depends on the background. With a more light/white background it turns more into a frosty look while with other backgrounds it’s more transparent.
Again: as always not everybody will be 100% satisfied, this is impossible.
Can’t confirm. On my 15 Pro it’s much cooler than with the previous betas. Give it while to settle, there might be still some background processing going on.
My 16 Pro is now on iOS 26! It got quite warm during the update which is to be expected. Running warm immediately after but there’ll be a lot of background stuff happening now.
First impressions.
Love the new design tweaks across the board and the Liquid Glass effect looks great!
Performance seems on another level compared to iOS 18! So fast and everything just feels so much snappier and much more fluid. Fantastic!
The keyboard is much faster when typing compared to iOS 18
First impressions.
Love the new design tweaks across the board and the Liquid Glass effect looks great!
Performance seems on another level compared to iOS 18! So fast and everything just feels so much snappier and much more fluid. Fantastic!
The keyboard is much faster when typing compared to iOS 18
Hi all! I‘m confused with the lockscreen options. Jumped on the beta train with PB3, now on PB4. I swear some of the pictures I used on PB3 I could setup as a lockscreen with both (!) spatial (? > tilt moves background) and 3D effect (clock hides behind something in the picture). Now all I seem to manage to do is either one or the other.
Is it me? The picture? The Beta? Or am I imagining things?
Thx!
Still enjoying ios26, mainly because I like change (and enjoy fast animations 😬).
Is it me? The picture? The Beta? Or am I imagining things?
Thx!
Still enjoying ios26, mainly because I like change (and enjoy fast animations 😬).
Hi all! I‘m confused with the lockscreen options. Jumped on the beta train with PB3, now on PB4. I swear some of the pictures I used on PB3 I could setup as a lockscreen with both (!) spatial (? > tilt moves background) and 3D effect (clock hides behind something in the picture). Now all I seem to manage to do is either one or the other.
Is it me? The picture? The Beta? Or am I imagining things?
Thx!
Still enjoying ios26, mainly because I like change (and enjoy fast animations).
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Same for me. It seems to be either/or. However, those created in previous betas (4 or 5) retain both effects.
Loving the look of iOS 26. Superb visual design changes with Liquid Glass 🤩
Android is fragmented but basic apps are updated through Play Store, so even if the phone keeps the same android version it would get an update for the Messages native app.
I see you went for the Public Beta over the Dev Beta. What was the reason. I only ask as I am in the same boat as you now. Tempted to jump onboard!
I think it’s just for the pure imagining that you’re safer than with the db 7 🤣
I went with the public beta as I’m not signed up for developer betas. No other reason! I believe they’re the same build anyway.
I’m glad I jumped on board 👌🏻
Im boarding now as we speak!
Are you sure? Look very carefully. It’s for a split fraction of a second.
Don’t know what to tell you. Unless some weird setting (other than reduce transparency which is off) got turned on for me on beta 7, this is less glassy than beta 6. Some elements basically look so blurry and frosted that I can’t spot the Liquid Glass at all.