Apple Releases First iOS 26 and iPadOS 26 Public Betas (macOS, tvOS, and watchOS too!)

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.

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.

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

Anyone test the latest iPadOS 26? Last I tried it was too buggy to use, but I do like the new multi-tasking features.