Juli Clover:
Apple today provided developers with the sixth betas of iOS 26 and iPadOS 26 for testing purposes, with the updates coming a week after Apple seeded the fifth betas.
The release notes don’t call out any changes in beta 6.
Juli Clover:
The Lock Screen clock has been updated with additional transparency, allowing more of the background to peek through.
Juli Clover:
In addition to the standard Reflection ringtone, there are now six variants: Buoyant, Dreamer, Tech, Pop, Reflected, and Surge.
Previously:
Update (2025-08-12): Peter Steinberger:
Apple tweaked the animation speed in iOS 26 beta 6 and it fees like a new phone.
Update (2025-08-13): Dave Wood:
Try searching for a contact now. In the phone app, it doesn’t care what ‘tab’ you select. It searches everything, and lists calls above contacts (contact results are hidden under the keyboard).
Greg Pierce:
Apple’s scanning UI got the Liquid Glass treatment in beta 6 – but even better, they made the controls for color, flash, and auto-shutter much easier to use!
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Juli Clover:
Apple today provided developers with the sixth beta of macOS Tahoe 26 for testing purposes, with the update coming a week after the fifth beta.
The release notes don’t call out any changes in beta 6.
Previously:
Update (2025-08-12): BasicAppleGuy:
Apple recently added several new aerial wallpapers in the latest macOS Tahoe Beta as the operating system barrels towards release in early fall.
BasicAppleGuy:
Additionally, they updated their Tahoe lakeside wallpaper with dawn, dusk, and nighttime variations. The only catch? They didn’t make them dynamic. That’s where I stepped in.
Joe Rossignol:
macOS Tahoe includes 15 new aerial screen savers for the Mac, each panning over natural landscapes around the world.
BasicAppleGuy:
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Update (2025-08-13): Dave Mark:
Kind of love this macOS 26 trash bin.
This new to Tahoe? Something I just never noticed before?
Note that the only thing in my trash was a single html doc. Guessing this pic is the same for everyone.
No matter. I dig it!
CM Harrington:
also notice all the trash is ‘floating’ at the top. The whole bin is translucent, and you can see where they just stopped.
BasicAppleGuy:
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Update (2025-08-14): Mario Guzmán:
The new Macintosh HD icon in #macOSTahoe reminds me of the 7th gen iPod nano's bottom if faced down. Except Macintosh HD has THREE headphone jack ports. lol
Pat Castaldo:
I will get use to it, but man, this Liquid Glass sucks. It’s hard to read, my eyes keep looking at the toolbars for no reason and it’s slow as hell. Icons in front of every menu bar is distracting and I can’t find what I’m looking for.
It’s not fancy, it’s not the future, it just fucking sucks.
I have installed and used every Mac OS since System Software 5 on my Mac Plus, and none of them have made me sad until now.
It just throws all that away for… nothing. Nothing is gained. It doesn’t look better, it’s harder to use, and it makes all the hard work people have put into the rest of the OS invisible.
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David Barnard (John Gruber):
On the podcast I talk with John about the fascinating 40-year history of Apple’s developer relations, how almost going bankrupt in the 1990s shaped today’s control-focused approach, and why we might need an ‘App Store 3.0’ reset.
[…]
As the App Store became a services giant, the partnership vibe faded. Developers went from partners to “users” of Apple’s marketplace.
[…]
Today, indie devs can pay Apple millions, while giants like Meta pay almost nothing. The fee logic and incentives don’t fit 2025.
[…]
With Apple’s senior leadership nearing retirement, now is the time to set new priorities: empower developers, invest in the ecosystem, and ensure Apple’s platforms stay vibrant for decades to come.
There’s lots of interesting stuff here, but one point I wanted to highlight is how they talked about complexity. Apple could have just applied the App Store small business program rate automatically—it has the sales data—but perhaps they make marginally more services revenue by introducing an application and enrollment process. The antitrust compliance stuff has so far been country/region-specific, which is confusing for everyone. Instead of dragging it out and giving as little as possible in each jurisdiction, they could just introduce a new set of broadly acceptable rules that are applicable everywhere and move on to focus on other things.
Previously:
Update (2025-08-13): Natasha Murashev:
According to customer support, apparently I was actually enrolled this whole time 😅There is just no celebratory “Welcome
to the Apple Small Business Program” email that I was expecting or any other indication except they just start taking the 15% cut instead of 30.
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