{"id":48802,"date":"2025-08-06T15:10:19","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T19:10:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=48802"},"modified":"2025-08-08T12:13:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T16:13:06","slug":"ios-26-developer-beta-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/06\/ios-26-developer-beta-5\/","title":{"rendered":"iOS 26 Developer Beta 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2025\/08\/05\/apple-seeds-ios-26-beta-5\/\">Juli Clover<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2025\/08\/05\/apple-seeds-ios-26-beta-5\/\">\n<p>Apple today provided developers with the fifth betas of iOS 26 and iPadOS 26 for testing purposes, with the updates coming a week after Apple seeded the fourth betas.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2025\/08\/05\/ios-26-beta-5-features\/\">Juli Clover<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2025\/08\/05\/ios-26-beta-5-features\/\"><p>Apple is continuing to refine button placement, animations, and design in preparation for launching  iOS 26  in September.<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>Apple added a toggle in the Camera app to allow users to toggle on Classic Mode, a setting that reverses the scroll direction when you swap from mode to mode.<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>There is now a dedicated Select button in the Mail app, instead of the button being tucked away inside of the &ldquo;&#8230;&rdquo; menu.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/bzamayo\/status\/1952811795640639529\">Benjamin Mayo<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/x.com\/bzamayo\/status\/1952811795640639529\">\n<p>Another subtle change to the tab bar&rsquo;s implementation in this beta is that the glass lens actually renders a duplicate copy of the tab items. You can see here both magnified items are shown with the selected blue tint, but the actual items are unselected.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@stroughtonsmith\/114977465503949614\">Steve Troughton-Smith<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@stroughtonsmith\/114977465503949614\"><p>Beta 5 feels a lot better put-together than previous betas, design wise. There have been a lot of subtle changes to how Liquid Glass works to maintain the effect but reduce the pain points. I think it&rsquo;s going to ship like this.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@chbeer\/114978359294240658\">Christian Beer<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@chbeer\/114978359294240658\"><p>Opening a menu reloads the whole SwiftUI Table and drops the selection&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ruby.social\/@collin\/114979298959063730\">Collin Donnell<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/ruby.social\/@collin\/114979298959063730\">\n<p>Why does everything bounce and have weird lighting effects? Why are all the controls so big? Why is the thing above the keyboard sometimes a search field and other times a regular text field?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/22\/ios-26-developer-beta-4\/\">iOS 26 Developer Beta 4<\/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<\/ul>\n\n<p id=\"ios-26-developer-beta-5-update-2025-08-08\">Update (<a href=\"#ios-26-developer-beta-5-update-2025-08-08\">2025-08-08<\/a>): <a href=\"https:\/\/bzamayo.com\/ios-26-camera-app-swipe-direction\">Benjamin Mayo<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/bzamayo.com\/ios-26-camera-app-swipe-direction\">\n<p>What is even crazier is, in beta 5, there is a new setting for the Camera app called &ldquo;Classic Mode Switching&rdquo;. The sole purpose of this toggle is to reverse the scroll direction. That is, to make it again work like every other app. The fact this setting exists at all is wild to me, and even more so that the default is for that toggle to be off, suggesting that having the Camera app defy the fundamental logic of the iPhone&rsquo;s direct manipulation user interface is the preferred path forward.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/how-to\/create-new-reminder-single-tap-ios\/\">Tim Hardwick<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/how-to\/create-new-reminder-single-tap-ios\/\"><p>In iOS 26, currently in beta, creating a new task for Apple&rsquo;s Reminders app is now a much faster process, thanks to the introduction of a &ldquo;New Reminder&rdquo; control that lets you create tasks without ever opening the app.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@agiletortoise\/114993258681357561\">Greg Pierce<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@agiletortoise\/114993258681357561\">\n<p>I&rsquo;m kind of enjoying the seizure-inducing toolbar redraws when you launch most of Apple&rsquo;s apps on iOS beta 5.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@agiletortoise\/114989531803041076\">Greg Pierce<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@agiletortoise\/114989531803041076\">\n<p>And the Foundation Model streaming APIs changed in crashy ways somehow in beta 5 and I can&rsquo;t find anything in the release notes about it. 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