{"id":48859,"date":"2025-08-11T16:43:42","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T20:43:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=48859"},"modified":"2025-08-13T16:33:53","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T20:33:53","slug":"ios-26-developer-beta-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/11\/ios-26-developer-beta-6\/","title":{"rendered":"iOS 26 Developer Beta 6"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2025\/08\/11\/apple-seeds-ios-26-beta-6\/\">Juli Clover<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2025\/08\/11\/apple-seeds-ios-26-beta-6\/\">\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/developer.apple.com\/documentation\/ios-ipados-release-notes\/ios-ipados-26-release-notes\">release notes<\/a> don&rsquo;t call out any changes in beta 6.<\/p>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2025\/08\/11\/ios-26-beta-6-liquid-glass-changes\/\">Juli Clover<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2025\/08\/11\/ios-26-beta-6-liquid-glass-changes\/\">\n<p>The Lock Screen clock has been updated with additional transparency, allowing more of the background to peek through.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2025\/08\/11\/ios-26-gets-more-new-ringtones\/\">Juli Clover<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2025\/08\/11\/ios-26-gets-more-new-ringtones\/\">\n<p>In addition to the standard Reflection ringtone, there are now six variants: Buoyant, Dreamer, Tech, Pop, Reflected, and Surge.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/06\/ios-26-developer-beta-5\/\">iOS 26 Developer Beta 5<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p id=\"ios-26-developer-beta-6-update-2025-08-12\">Update (<a href=\"#ios-26-developer-beta-6-update-2025-08-12\">2025-08-12<\/a>): <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/steipete\/status\/1955233053644652894\">Peter Steinberger<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/x.com\/steipete\/status\/1955233053644652894\">\n<p>Apple tweaked the animation speed in iOS 26 beta 6 and it fees like a new phone.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p id=\"ios-26-developer-beta-6-update-2025-08-13\">Update (<a href=\"#ios-26-developer-beta-6-update-2025-08-13\">2025-08-13<\/a>): <a href=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@davewoodx\/115022537780922818\">Dave Wood<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@davewoodx\/115022537780922818\"><p>Try searching for a contact now. In the phone app, it doesn&rsquo;t care what &lsquo;tab&rsquo; you select. It searches everything, and lists calls above contacts (contact results are hidden under the keyboard).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@agiletortoise\/115017228898751118\">Greg Pierce<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@agiletortoise\/115017228898751118\"><p>Apple&rsquo;s scanning UI got the Liquid Glass treatment in beta 6 &#x2013; but even better, they made the controls for color, flash, and auto-shutter much easier to use!<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&rsquo;t call out any changes in beta 6. 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