Apple Releases First iOS 26 and iPadOS 26 Public Betas (macOS, tvOS, and watchOS too!)
Apple Releases First iOS 26 and iPadOS 26 Public Betas
I've been running the developer beta for about a month or so now, the updates have made the phone run cooler (good) and things have become more readable. Good that Apple is working on it, but there's still a bunch of issues. In the clock app, when there's the bubble in the swipe menu, the text and icons switch between yellow and orange and there's also VERY small slivers of orange whenever you hover the bubble over the alarms and stopwatch icon that drive me crazy. The bubble effect is a bit overdone in my opinion and could be toned down a bit. The lockscreen swiping still has issues, as when you swipe down the lockscreen background doesn't appear, but notifications are still adjusted to the colour of it so if you have a darker lock screen background and on a lighter/white web page and you swipe to see you notifications, it looks unreadable until you swipe all the way down where the lockscreen background reappears.
Wait, only now? Huh. Well it is better now than it was before, but watching P in the browser still makes the phone pretty hot. I mean PRETTY HOT. And it drains the battery fast. But other than that, it’s like the kind of devolving that happened when the UI icons changed
Developer beta updated too and it’s not running hot anymore, battery life is much improved , and AirPlay issues seem solved
I love the “battery life improved” comment because it implies the person never updated their phone before
Improved over the previous betas* It’s been updated about every two weeks
Did AI write this title? Because it’s wrong. There’s no visionOS public beta.
Ah yes you’re correct, I misread the Macrumors article, have fixed the post title
It’s really too early for a public beta considering how unreadable Liquid Glass still is.
Lol, posted one day before the public beta dropped
Seriously, people have a hard time reading already. If they don’t read quick enough now, the liquid glass is just going to blend into itself and everything will become unreadable.
The more people giving first hand feedback on that, the better.
They have been zig zagging on improving it over the course of the betas. Hopefully it lands somewhere sane.
It takes up more space and adds visuals noise. It’s just bad.
I really think Apple took a step back with Liquid Glass. It’s inefficient, less functional, gimmicky, and just unpleasant to use. They aren’t doing something they couldn’t do before. They are doing something they actively decided against years ago and suddenly think it’s a good idea now.
Too many marketing people making decisions at Apple these past few years. It’s amazing Apple silicon ever got off the ground.