iOS 26 Developer Beta 6
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.
The Lock Screen clock has been updated with additional transparency, allowing more of the background to peek through.
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).
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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> Apple tweaked the animation speed in iOS 26 beta 6 and it fees like a new phone.
Interesting! Did they make it faster than iOS 18? That would be nice, because after testing a Pixel 9 recently, the animations on iOS are dreadfully slow in comparison (I know that you can completely disable them, but I don't like that either).
