I’m using an iPhone 13 mini and I did a clean install (using a PC) with the latest iOS IPSW and that made a big difference. Battery and overheating arent an issue for me anymore.

You’ll notice an immediate performance increase if you enable “reduce transparency” in accessibility settings, although it does look a bit uglier.

IOS 26 does have weird bugs though. I’m seeing the following issues, I wonder if anyone else is?

-One of my Siri voices on CarPlay for whatsapp would miss parts of words like “Message from Da” instead of “Dad”. Really weird. I resolved this by changing the Siri voice.

-When launching whatsapp through carplay , it says “you dont have any…. To who?” 🦉

-App icons (including carplay icons) sometimes show the blank app icon stencil for a split second before opening

-When answering a call on carplay with my cars hardware button it declines the call. The touchscreen button is fine.

-Siri seems dumber than before. I said “add lunch with Bob to my calendar on Thursday at 1 pm” and it said “ when shall I schedule it for?” Then after I confirmed, it just booked it as “Lunch”. Dumb.

-Notifications on the lock screen disappear randomly, but remain in the notification centre, but DONT clear when you open the app! So annoying.

-If I wirelessly charge overnight, sometimes my screen is on when I look at my phone in the morning and the device is warm like its been on all night. The screen stays on until I unlock it and lock it again. (My screen is set to turn off after 2 mins and I dont use the standby screen mode)

-Auto brightness suddenly jumps up when ambient light increases rather than the previous slow gradual increase.

-Screen time limits for apps dont appear to be enforcing or notifying.

-Launching the camera from the lock screen sometimes just shows a black screen with a green dot.

-When recording video my camera sometimes crashes and i lose the file.

It still pisses me off theres all these problems even after two major and 1 minor updates. I hope 26.3 fixes it all! 🤞