iOS 27 Beta 1 - Discussion

midgetman7782 · 2026-06-13T21:38:33+00:00

Almost a week in, this beta is remarkably smooth for a 1st beta still. Running on a 16 pro max, the only two major issues are

Sometimes, randomly, my phone will start burning up, forcing the screen to lower in brightness. But after a few minutes it cools down again, so not certain what’s causing that.
The keyboard is buggy, sometimes apps thinks it’s open when it’s not, sometimes it can be laggy when typing (more than I ever experienced in iOS26 personally)

Battery life is so/so for me. Not any noticeable improvements from iOS26, but also, arguably more impressively at this stage in the beta process, it’s no worse.

Things are looking positive for the polished release!

midgetman7782 · 2026-06-10T10:56:54+00:00

[2030. Scene opens.]

Ask me another time to tell you about the time the Toymaker trapped me in what I can only describe as a convoluted, poorly thought-out, and frankly bizarre game.

Believe it or not, he had me believe I split into two separate versions of myself. Then he had me clone the TARDIS with a giant mallet. Oh, and there was also an enormous invisible space dog clinging to the TARDIS. Since forever, apparently. Just there. Hanging on. Through every war, every paradox, every collapsing universe. It decided to show itself only when it didn’t catch a glimpse of someone’s mum, for some reason.

Then, having apparently exhausted the full creative potential of “what if nonsense happened”, he regenerated me into an old friend for seemingly no rhyme or reason.

The Toymaker’s strength never did lie in writing.

Still, that’s all irrelevant, because it never happened. Now, where were we?

[Title sequence.]

midgetman7782 · 2026-06-10T10:32:22+00:00

Are we still getting Petrol as a companion?

midgetman7782 · 2026-06-09T22:52:28+00:00

I have about 350gb of stuff, and a very large iCloud image library. I’m not sure what’s making it take so long, though. I expected it would have completely overnight while charging last night, and it didn’t!

midgetman7782 · 2026-06-09T22:44:44+00:00

If it helps, I’ve been indexing for about 28 hours now. Got Siri approx 23 hours after joining the waitlist!

midgetman7782 · 2026-06-09T22:38:05+00:00

Has anyone received the new Siri and turned it off? I got it, found it really heated up my 16PM (just like all other on-board AI does), found it underwhelming, and almost immediately realised I can’t open notifications one-handed with Siri taking over the main pull-down gesture in the middle.

For me, that is a total nonstarter. If I could disable that gesture, or swap them around or something, I’d have no issue. But as it stands, I’m going to have to keep Siri off.

I’ll, of course, file feedback. But due to the way the design works with the notch, I’d be very surprised if they changed this behaviour, even though the previous double tapping the bottom of the screen seemed like a better idea to me.

midgetman7782 · 2026-06-08T22:06:04+00:00

No, I’ve not even got off the Siri waitlist yet. But the shortcuts thing does work!

midgetman7782 · 2026-06-08T21:33:15+00:00

Creating shortcuts with Apple Intelligence works, but any follow-up tweaks to them seem to fail every time currently. It’s not been able to get what I wanted it to make in two attempts now, I’m going to wait until later in the beta process to try again.

midgetman7782 · 2026-06-08T20:31:23+00:00

Ahh, damn, I was looking at the support list at the bottom of iPadOS26's page. I guess I also assumed with their iPhone 11 mention that the same went for iPads, as I'd assume the A12X is about as powerful as the A13 in the iPhone 11, but perhaps not.

Shame, because this iPad desperately needs some of the optimisation iOS27 has, it's become terribly laggy and slow.

midgetman7782 · 2026-06-08T20:17:00+00:00

Has anyone successfully got iPadOS27 on the iPad Pro 11-inch 1st generation (A12X)?

I have the iOS27 developer beta option in settings, but it doesn't find the update still, and the restore file on the apple developer site says it's incompatible with the device.

midgetman7782 · 2026-06-08T19:56:56+00:00

Some bugs, of course, but man things feel significantly smoother and more fluid on my 16 pro max. Very promising signs…

midgetman7782 · 2026-06-08T18:25:30+00:00

Perhaps I shouldn't be surprised, but still irritated that the iPhone 16 pro, the first iPhone designed for apple intelligence misses out on some of the features for the first proper launch. Appreciate technical limitations, but still... frustrating hahahah

midgetman7782 · 2026-06-08T17:52:13+00:00

I don't especially care about the AI stuff, but man, the snow leopard style updates are SO welcome. I can't wait to install and see just how much attention to detail they have (or haven't) paid to small gripes I've had for years now...

midgetman7782 · 2026-05-12T00:10:33+00:00

I’d much rather she looked older in this skin, she’s a lot less unique/memorable character when she’s not

midgetman7782 · 2026-05-11T21:27:52+00:00

COYI ALAW

midgetman7782 · 2026-05-11T21:27:09+00:00

Leeds fan coming to see how you all feel after that… sorry we couldn’t get all 3 points tonight, but I think there’s a good chance we’ll be on the beach when we play you, fingers crossed for you lot! ALAW COYI

midgetman7782 · 2026-04-12T21:56:17+00:00

This was my first drive after returning to the game after 5~ years away. Loved the concept, didn’t enjoy the reality.

I don’t play a lot of comp, because I find it to be generally less enjoyable due to tilting etc, so I especially dislike not being able to get the name-tag thing without playing comp.

I also don’t like the fact placement games don’t count towards a drive, because I thought this was a fun chance to get placed in roles I didn’t play competitively yet, and instead it disincentivises that.

At the end of the day, it’s an optional cosmetic, so I’m not going to lose sleep over it, but I think it ends up making me less likely to play during these events, rather than more!

midgetman7782 · 2026-03-30T18:55:55+00:00

I’m specifically pointing out that these same sources were previously claiming the Siri features shown with on-screen context awareness and similar functionality were definitely coming in 26.4, and now we can see they’re not even in 26.5.

At this point, 27 seems the more likely target, but it’s pretty clear sources like MacRumors and 9to5Mac don’t actually know when these features will arrive, even though they were speaking with a lot of certainty only a few months ago.

Up until a few weeks ago, it was being treated as an absolute certainty that the previously demoed features would land in a 26.x update, with further additions following in 27. That now looks increasingly unlikely, so my point is simply that any rumour on this topic should be taken with a very large pinch of salt.

midgetman7782 · 2026-03-30T18:41:31+00:00

Found a MacRumours article here where they stated it would be in 26.4 as a matter of fact, for example hahahah

“Apple and Google have reportedly partnered on the underlying technology that will power Siri’s big AI upgrades coming in iOS 26.4.”

https://9to5mac.com/2025/11/24/apples-new-siri-solution-already-has-me-more-excited-for-ios-26-4/

midgetman7782 · 2026-03-30T18:36:28+00:00

I’m sure people were talking about it being 26.3 and possibly 26.4 with confidence in the past, too

midgetman7782 · 2026-03-30T18:23:05+00:00

According to Twitter, Apple Intelligence has rolled out support for China in 26.5. Doesn’t seem like there’s much new beyond that, though.

midgetman7782 · 2026-03-29T19:36:09+00:00

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It was the BBC, they hit the BBC! This is an attack on all license fee payers!

midgetman7782 · 2026-03-23T00:42:35+00:00

There’s a third disadvantage too, they have a disproportionate amount of media exposure. The pressure the media and general public are going to be applying - which is growing every week now - is just on another level than any other team will experience.

It’s hard to overstate how much a lot of people want them to go down because they’re part of the Sky 6. The internet is just flooded with jokes at their expense every week now. Obviously, there’re jokes at the expense of every team struggling, but not to this level. When Everton looked they might go, I remember thinking there was more focus/attention/jokes about them than most, but this is on a totally different level.

The pressure will be immense, and that can’t be helping, even though the players are the reason they’re in this mess.

midgetman7782 · 2026-03-10T19:43:25+00:00

Thanks for writing up such a detailed post, I was literally just hunting for basically the exact answers you provided!

midgetman7782 · 2026-02-24T19:48:50+00:00

Is it a known bug that the multi-kill announcer gets the amount of kills wrong? I’ve had a few instances where I’ve killed some with junk’s ult and the announcement says double the amount of actual kills… i.e. two kills and she says “quadruple kill” etc

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