iOS 26 Developer Beta 5 Has Released

By Ayub, 5 August, 2025

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By Ayub on Tuesday, August 5, 2025 - 21:09

Sorry. It took longer than it usually takes to install on my 15 Pro Max. The update was 10.5 GB.

Has the issue where VoiceOver crashes been fixed?

By JC on Tuesday, August 5, 2025 - 21:11

Yes. VoiceOVer crash issue is gone.

By Ayub on Tuesday, August 5, 2025 - 21:41

Yes. I think it is fixed. I was able to download Alex with no issues.

By Holger Fiallo on Tuesday, August 5, 2025 - 21:56

Do we know if it is out?

By Ayub on Tuesday, August 5, 2025 - 22:03

The public beta comes usually after 24 hours or forty-eight hours. So expect it tomorrow or the day after tomorrow.

By JC on Tuesday, August 5, 2025 - 22:12

same. When developer beta comes out usually on Tuesdays, Apple releases the public beta one day after the developer beta with the same feature set as the developer beta build, so be expecting the public beta either tomorrow or the day after.

By Seamus on Tuesday, August 5, 2025 - 22:49

I am still unable to download the Samantha enhanced voice. Also, all of my voiceover activities got completely vanished and deleted.

By Levi Gobin on Wednesday, August 6, 2025 - 00:33

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Alex still fails to download. I double tap on the voice, and it just sits there.

By Ayub on Wednesday, August 6, 2025 - 01:54

Hi all,

Has anyone noticed that the VoiceOver speech volume is fixed? I don't hear VoiceOver speak loud like other times.

Can anyone confirm this?

By Oliver on Wednesday, August 6, 2025 - 05:25

Wise. They're testing software with a pre-release. It's not fully baked. I'm waiting until full release in September. My phone is too important to lose any functionality.

By Jokyboy129 on Wednesday, August 6, 2025 - 07:01

I think that there is some sort of cashing issoe with these voices and only a foll reset can fix this. At least that is what Apple Support recommended.

By Jokyboy129 on Wednesday, August 6, 2025 - 07:06

When jumping into a tab bar like in Apple Mosic, it says space instead of 1 of 5 or all the other numbers. Anyone else seeing this?

By Cliff on Wednesday, August 6, 2025 - 07:48

Yeah, seeing this too. However there's a setting under verbosity now, I think it's new, to change list behaviour. If you change this to "read", the list values will be read again. I was so happy when I found this, and it fixed VO saying space after every tab title and instead went back to saying the list number, but I then noticed that VO then will announce list values for a whole number of other items too, where it hasn't been doing this before, so I had to turn it off again to not turn crazy... Might be a new feature or change that needs some more fine-tuning.

By Gruia on Wednesday, August 6, 2025 - 08:46

On ipad air m2 doesn’t/ function at all. After i introduce passcode voiceover restart and the ipad is again locked .

By KE8UPE on Wednesday, August 6, 2025 - 13:50

Hi,
I've reported this before, but I'm unable to move apps to the dock on my iPad, using edit mode. If I perform a double tap and hold and drag it manually, sometimes I can get it to work.
Has anyone else seen this?

By wiljames on Wednesday, August 6, 2025 - 14:19

If you have a Magic keyboard, you'll find some oqptions for your trackpad. You can have text under your pointer now. Still no interaction, but we're almost there.

By Ayub on Wednesday, August 6, 2025 - 17:34

Has anyone noticed that VoiceOver no longer raises its volume automatically like it used to before in iOS 18?

Can anyone confirm this?

By KE8UPE on Wednesday, August 6, 2025 - 18:22

Hi,
I was working today & my volume fluctuated several times.
I had to turn it down, using the volume buttons.