iOS 26 Developer Beta 8
Apple today provided developers with the eighth betas of iOS 26 and iPadOS 26 for testing purposes, with the updates coming a week after Apple seeded the seventh betas.
The release notes don’t call out any changes since beta 5.
Historically, since iOS 13, beta 8 has been the last beta of the summer cycle before the release candidate builds. That suggests that today’s seed is as good as it gets before release — this is it, folks, this is iOS 26.
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Judging by how buggy 26 is, and nothing is improving, there are more than likely very little changes indeed since beta 5. What a buggy mess. Everyone keeps bringing up iOS 7 beta and the 7.0 release, but that one was at least technically rock solid and only had design issues. Whereas this mess will not be solid even in 3026.
@Léo of course, because they'll stop developing it in late 2027 and leave it buggy to move on to iOS 27.
They seem to just be ok with their software being kind of a buggy mess for long periods now.
