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iOS 26 Speculation Thread
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I would usually say only if the public beta is released on the same day as the dev beta. Since this heuristic won’t apply this time around (given the dev beta is already being released late in the day so the same day release is impossible) it is a coin toss whether you are right or not.
I installed beta 3 and there are 0 changes. The bugs I reported in 26.2 are still there. I expected that after almost two weeks they would have fixed at least some of them, but no. At least for now, there are no updates released by Apple, but I think this also happened in beta 2.
26.4 beta 1 is rumored to be released in the second half of February:
Here's When Apple Plans to Unveil a New Siri Powered by Google Gemini
Apple plans to unveil a more personalized version of Siri powered by Google Gemini next month, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. "The company has been planning an announcement of the new Siri in the second half of February, when it will give demonstrations of the functionality," he wrote, in...
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Then this is just gonna be my rumor.26.4 beta 1 is rumored to be released in the second half of February:
Here's When Apple Plans to Unveil a New Siri Powered by Google Gemini
Apple plans to unveil a more personalized version of Siri powered by Google Gemini next month, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. "The company has been planning an announcement of the new Siri in the second half of February, when it will give demonstrations of the functionality," he wrote, in...
Also think so. And I am not even sure if we already see the new Siri/Gemini with 26.4 B1 already or in later betas.26.4 beta 1 is rumored to be released in the second half of February:
Here's When Apple Plans to Unveil a New Siri Powered by Google Gemini
Apple plans to unveil a more personalized version of Siri powered by Google Gemini next month, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. "The company has been planning an announcement of the new Siri in the second half of February, when it will give demonstrations of the functionality," he wrote, in...
But that is all the very near future. Time to relax, we will see it soon enough. So some time to take a deep breath before you can start to complain about the new Siri. ;-)
Think we still will have some weeks with IOS 26.3
Wouldn’t expect iOS 26.4 B1 before mid of February.
Wouldn’t expect iOS 26.4 B1 before mid of February.
That seems to be the plan. Announcement/demo on 2/16 and developer beta that day or next?
Yeah, I’m thinking it may go as follows:
- 26.3 RC Beta next week (February 2-6)
- 26.3 Public release (February 9-13)
- 26.4 Developer Beta 1 (February 16-20)
That seems to match the reports of the new Siri landing mid February. 👍🏻
Based on the fact that the public beta came a day later than the dev one this week, I fear we are getting another beta next week and (if dev and public are on the same day) RC the week after.
For the last several years, this pattern has not been broken with .X updates and the only reason I am not more certain about this round is that the dev beta was released later in the day than usual (due to 26.2.1), so it might be an anomaly. No beta last week also matches us still being on a 2 week beta schedule, making a RC next week even more unlikely. I do hope I am wrong though.
I would agree. Seems that Apple just stopped signing the recently released updates for older phones (pre-iOS 26), and I find it hard to believe they'd release a 'point.point' update if they're planning to release iOS 26.3 next week. I'd assume that 26.3 would be released maybe Feb 9