iOS 26 Beta 1 Released

It might be a good idea to switch your voice to compact Samantha before installing iOS 26.

Hi,
I just saw Michael's recommendation not to install iOS 26 on the iPhone 15 pro, but I did & mine works fine.
I have occasionally lost speech, but if I turn Voiceover off & back on, sometimes, multiple times, it comes back & all is well.
I'm liking the updates so far.

Hi all,

Software update now works! I just checked, and it was on apples end. you can once again check for a beta update.

yes

i checked and software update now works

It seams to be the 20 percent dialog screen thing is still there.

@Michael thanks but I've moved back to Alex.

Hi all,

I have just started noticing that when you try to pair a new device to your iPhone (like an Amazon Echo Dot), when I tap on the device name under "other devices", nothing happens. I have already reported this to Apple (FB17880994). Has anyone else noticed this?

Another thing I have notice that in sounds in haptic setting, there is latenight mode. this makes the volume louder. Late night has always been an option under the music EQ setting, but it can also be found in the sounds and haptics setting. that to me is very cool!

well,
some of the languages of the speech quality is not good since IOS 17...
does it has any changes?

Initially, when connecting my BrailleNote Touch+ to my iPhone to test Braille Access, I could not read using my Braille display at all. However, this appears to just be a Liblouis issue, as switching to Unified (system) appeared to fix the issue. Will be submitting a report about this soon.

I'm not to bothered about this as the phone works fine, but it would have been a nice option. I know i could probably plug the phone into a laptop and go from there but i'm to lazy.

I don't like how you have to tap on edit, then select, then select your messages in the messages app, then tap on delete to delete them,, for multiple messages i understand but for just one? It's a waist of time.

I could report it but it's not a bug, it's just the new way of doing things.

My cousin says that a lot of people really don't like the glass look of things an dthere's tonnes of reports on how much it sucks, so it'll be interesting to see if apple goes back to the way it was before all this 26 stuff started.

The change in verbosity you mentioned was here since ios 18.3 or .4 something.

Hi.

Subject says it all and have reported to Apple, FB17954299.

When I try to do this, it just does not activate. One time I completely lost VoiceOver and had to do a hard reboot as even the accessibility shortcut did not work. Otherwise, so far so good considering it's the first beta. iPhone SE, Third Generation.

Sadly, there's still no support for USB Braille displays that don't support HID. Bluetooth isn't always ideal. It's a shame given the emphasis on Braille this year.

For the person who wanted to delete messages. Try a triple tap with one finger. You will have to swipe to delete, but at least you will not have to go through edit. Remember, this is beta 1 and things will get better.

I’ve got iOS26 on an iPhone 15 Pro Max and and iPad is running iPadOS26. Stable for me at the moment.

Did I understand this right, that you cannot delete messages with the action rotor anymore? Because, that absolutely sucks if that is the case.

You can choose the more action from the actions than you, and at the bottom or a delete and forward button. Haven’t tested this on 26, but that’s how it was an 18.

I don't know if this is a bug or not, or if it's just part of the new design. I did submit feedback expressing that I hope the delete option will return to the rotor. If anyone wants to reference my feedback, the ID is: FB17909103

The triple tap option worked. and yes, I have also noticed the delete action from the VoiceOVer rotor is gone, for now. as everyone has said, this is only beta 1, so they will add it back in future beta builds.

When listening to audio through bluetooth speakers, and you have it set to speaker, does the voiceover volume still get turned up?

That is a bug that has been around for quite some time.

Before I start, yes I know it isn't spelt like that -it's a play on words!

1. Personal voice: as of IOS18, your personal voice has to be english US. When putting together my personal voice I did try and accentuate, as much as possible, the English home counties attributes of my manner of speaking so as to offset this, but it still had a noticeable effect on how it processed pronunciation in putting the voice together, plus I had to endure wretched Samantha on the lock screen - a sacrifice I am not prepared to make. so my question is this: can I now have an english UK, australia, South africa, India etc. personal voice?
2. Braille access mode sounds intriguing rather than essential from my perspective but I'll definitely be giving it a shot. Can you access it if your device is set to six-dot Braille though? I much prefer that to eight-dot Braille.

Well done to all you beaters out there, incidentally. I enjoy reading your comments. It's very valuable from my perspective as I only have one iPhone and am neither brave enough nor permitted to run beta releases on it.

As for Braille Access, yes you can use your device in six-dot mode. Tried it on my Focus 14 Blue and everything seems fine.

In the changes to Safari's UI, it appears that the bookmark button isn't fully re-labelled yet (has no capital letter at the beginning, which to me says that part is being re-done). However, the issue I'm facing now is how to find my Safari search history. I'm assuming that it's still there, but I can't seem to navigate to it.

If you're looking for your browsing history, it's still in Safari’s bookmarks view, however, the button is currently labeled as "Clock."

While browsing my AirPods settings on my iPad, I came across a prompt which told me that there is AirPods beta firmware available. I pressed on it and there was a button giving me the option to win agree to the installation of the beat software. Unfortunately, I don't think it forces it to install straight away and it's a case of just having to wait a bit for it to install When it feels like it.

Suggestion, listen to music for 20 seconds, put it back on the case, next to phone and let it be for 15 minutes.

Hi,
I just got the USBC airpods max & am not seeing an option to install any sort of beta firmware.
Given that, am I correct in believing that these airpods either don't have beta firmware that goes with iOS 26 or if it does, it's just not available to us as end users?

Hi there,

As I understand it, the AirPods beta firmware for iOS 26 requires an H2 chipset. Apple seems to be very good at imposing limitations lately, I guess. :)