{"id":48397,"date":"2025-07-08T16:25:06","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T20:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=48397"},"modified":"2025-07-21T15:01:47","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T19:01:47","slug":"ipados-26-developer-beta-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/08\/ipados-26-developer-beta-3\/","title":{"rendered":"iPadOS 26 Developer Beta 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mastodon.macstories.net\/@viticci\/114814327793477786\">Federico Viticci<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/mastodon.macstories.net\/@viticci\/114814327793477786\">\n<p>How much has Apple really &ldquo;nerfed&rdquo; Liquid Glass in the latest beta?<\/p>\n<p>Here&rsquo;s a comparison between iPadOS 26 developer beta 2 (first image) and beta 3.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@stroughtonsmith\/114813505478226490\">Steve Troughton-Smith<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@stroughtonsmith\/114813505478226490\"><p>Wow they kinda did the thing? Fullscreen apps on iPadOS work a lot more like fullscreen apps on macOS now &mdash; they generate a new &lsquo;space&rsquo;, and you can swipe between them.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mastodon.macstories.net\/@viticci\/114813556133593454\">Federico Viticci<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/mastodon.macstories.net\/@viticci\/114813556133593454\">\n<p>Truly another S-tier iPad multitasking change.<\/p>\n<p>You can swipe back and forth between full-screen and windowed \"spaces\" AND if you re-resize a full-screen app, it automatically goes back to the windowed space.<\/p>\n<p>Love this.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2025\/07\/07\/the-ipad-cursor-gets-a-fun-mac-inspired-feature-in-ipados-26-beta-3\/\">Ryan Christoffel<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2025\/07\/07\/the-ipad-cursor-gets-a-fun-mac-inspired-feature-in-ipados-26-beta-3\/\"><p>10 years ago in macOS El Capitan, Apple added a convenient and fun new feature for the system cursor.<\/p><p>Shake the cursor back and forth rapidly and it would enlarge, making it easier to locate.<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>And now in iPadOS 26 beta 3, the same feature is coming to the iPad.<\/p><p>The iPad is already getting a more Mac-inspired cursor in iPadOS 26. It now looks like a proper pointer, rather than the circle that was available in iPadOS 18.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@stroughtonsmith\/114814095192499731\">Steve Troughton-Smith<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@stroughtonsmith\/114814095192499731\"><p>They&rsquo;re really all-in on stealing all the good ideas this cycle<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@chockenberry\/114814741336171418\">Craig Hockenberry<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@chockenberry\/114814741336171418\"><p>&ldquo;Concentricity.&rdquo;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/07\/menu-bar-madness-in-macos-26-and-ipados-26\/\">Menu Bar Madness in macOS 26 and iPadOS 26<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/01\/ipados-windows-mess-up-data-saving\/\">iPadOS Windows Mess Up Data Saving<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/30\/assorted-notes-on-liquid-glass\/\">Assorted Notes on Liquid Glass<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/25\/ipados-26-audio-and-video-capture\/\">iPadOS 26 Audio and Video Capture<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/10\/ipados-26-announced\/\">iPadOS 26 Announced<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p id=\"ipados-26-developer-beta-3-update-2025-07-09\">Update (<a href=\"#ipados-26-developer-beta-3-update-2025-07-09\">2025-07-09<\/a>): <a href=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@gruber\/114823910677228011\">John Gruber<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@gruber\/114823910677228011\">\n<p>This is not a thoughtfully spaced-out dialog box. (Journal app, iPadOS 26 b3.)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p id=\"ipados-26-developer-beta-3-update-2025-07-10\">Update (<a href=\"#ipados-26-developer-beta-3-update-2025-07-10\">2025-07-10<\/a>): <a href=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@stroughtonsmith\/114828641264343682\">Steve Troughton-Smith<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@stroughtonsmith\/114828641264343682\">\n<p>While the new Liquid Glass sidebar design looks great in a window when picking up the wallpaper background, it looks kinda awful in fullscreen over white, <em>which is the default mode for iPad apps<\/em>. It's a very weak comparison with what you got before, in iOS 18<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/birchtree.me\/blog\/how-ipados-can-win-me-over\/\">Matt Birchler<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/birchtree.me\/blog\/how-ipados-can-win-me-over\/\"><p>This one&rsquo;s tough to objectify, but going from using the web on my Mac to the M4 iPad Pro just feels slow to me. Part of this is what I mentioned above where I&rsquo;m locked to 60Hz output compared to my Mac using the same display to render the web at 240Hz, but it&rsquo;s also raw performance &#x2013; websites just feel like they load slower than on my Mac. This is true on my M4 Pro MacBook Pro as well as my M1 work Mac.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p id=\"ipados-26-developer-beta-3-update-2025-07-21\">Update (<a href=\"#ipados-26-developer-beta-3-update-2025-07-21\">2025-07-21<\/a>): <a href=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@marioguzman\/114883163582223366\">Mario Guzm&aacute;n<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@marioguzman\/114883163582223366\">\n<p>The entire, fundamental design of Liquid Glass is&#8230; as best I heard someone describe it: Misguided. From letting the UI recede to elevate your content and translucent\/glass container views&#8230; it is all the worst of the worst for usability.<\/p>\n<p>I&rsquo;ve been saying this since flat UI became a thing&#8230; print design for fashion magazines does NOT translate to application design.<\/p>\n<p>There is no clear, visual hierarchy as everything just blends with each other.<\/p>\n<p>(Compare to iOS 6 Music)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Federico Viticci: How much has Apple really &ldquo;nerfed&rdquo; Liquid Glass in the latest beta? Here&rsquo;s a comparison between iPadOS 26 developer beta 2 (first image) and beta 3. Steve Troughton-Smith: Wow they kinda did the thing? Fullscreen apps on iPadOS work a lot more like fullscreen apps on macOS now &mdash; they generate a new [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2025-07-08T20:25:09Z","apple_news_api_id":"d99d3c44-9841-4ba4-ad9c-f57c5025fbfd","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2025-07-21T19:01:10Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAg==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/A2Z08RJhBS6StnPV8UCX7_Q","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[77,772,1814,2763,2313,2785,1816],"class_list":["post-48397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-design","tag-ios-multitasking","tag-ipados","tag-ipados-26","tag-ipados-beta","tag-liquid-glass","tag-music-app"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48397"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48553,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48397\/revisions\/48553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}