{"id":48945,"date":"2025-08-18T14:46:56","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T18:46:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=48945"},"modified":"2025-08-26T15:06:15","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T19:06:15","slug":"ios-26-developer-beta-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/18\/ios-26-developer-beta-7\/","title":{"rendered":"iOS 26 Developer Beta 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2025\/08\/18\/ios-26-beta-7\/\">Juli Clover<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2025\/08\/18\/ios-26-beta-7\/\">\n<p>Apple today provided developers with the seventh betas of iOS 26 and iPadOS 26 for testing purposes, with the updates coming a week after Apple seeded the sixth 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> are still titled &ldquo;beta 6&rdquo; and don&rsquo;t call out any changes since beta 5.<\/p>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2025\/08\/18\/ios-26-watchos-26-beta-7-redesigned-blood-oxygen\/\">Joe Rossignol<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2025\/08\/18\/ios-26-watchos-26-beta-7-redesigned-blood-oxygen\/\">\n<p>The seventh developer betas of iOS 26 and watchOS 26 include a redesigned Blood Oxygen feature on Apple Watch Series 9, Apple Watch Series 10, and Apple Watch Ultra 2 models sold in the U.S. since mid-January 2024.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/14\/the-return-of-blood-oxygen-for-apple-watch\/\">The Return of Blood Oxygen for Apple Watch<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/11\/ios-26-developer-beta-6\/\">iOS 26 Developer Beta 6<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p id=\"ios-26-developer-beta-7-update-2025-08-19\">Update (<a href=\"#ios-26-developer-beta-7-update-2025-08-19\">2025-08-19<\/a>): <a href=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@ezekiel@hachyderm.io\/115051730130535142\">Ezekiel Elin<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@ezekiel@hachyderm.io\/115051730130535142\"><p>It is not generally correct that the Blood Oxygen change is only Series 9\/10 and Ultra 2.<\/p><p>My series 8 watch didn&rsquo;t have it either and today&rsquo;s change re-enabled it.<\/p><p>Seems like every news outlet is completely ignoring the fact that Series 8 watches continue to be sold\/furnished to customers as new even now.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2025\/08\/18\/everything-new-in-ios-26-beta-7\/\">Joe Rossignol<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2025\/08\/18\/everything-new-in-ios-26-beta-7\/\">\n<p>iOS 26 beta 7 adds an additional Adaptive Power Notifications toggle in the Settings app, under Battery &#x2192; Power Mode. This setting allows you to choose whether you receive push notifications each time Adaptive Power mode kicks in.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@stroughtonsmith\/115054480540002305\">Steve Troughton-Smith<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@stroughtonsmith\/115054480540002305\"><p>I feel as lost now with beta 7 as I did with the WWDC seeds; system components just aren&rsquo;t coming together and I can&rsquo;t afford to lose a week each time waiting for the next build. This design language needs at least another six months in the oven, with third party developer testing and collaboration, because I don&rsquo;t think it&rsquo;s ready to meet the challenge of a million third party apps. Alan Dye&rsquo;s team is about to have all their theories tested, in public, on a billion devices<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@stroughtonsmith\/115051536817135046\">Steve Troughton-Smith<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@stroughtonsmith\/115051536817135046\"><p>Not looking good on the radar front in beta 7, and I&rsquo;m starting to see bug reports, and blockers, being punted &lsquo;to a future OS release&rsquo; (read 26.1 and beyond). September is starting to feel like a lost cause.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@emidio\/115055593031630354\">Em&iacute;dio Cunha<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@emidio\/115055593031630354\">\n<p>I was surprised to find this latest beta having new animations even when you set the motion to off in the accessibility settings. There&rsquo;s an shutter open effect now when you open an app. It makes it slow which is what I wanted to avoid with this setting.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@marcoarment\/115055934547309468\">Marco Arment<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@marcoarment\/115055934547309468\"><p>iOS beta 7 still has so many little animation bugs that I&rsquo;m needing to scale back my redesign.<\/p><p>Overcast&rsquo;s adoption of Liquid Glass for 26.0 is going to be a small set of incremental changes, not a &ldquo;redesign&rdquo;, really.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p id=\"ios-26-developer-beta-7-update-2025-08-20\">Update (<a href=\"#ios-26-developer-beta-7-update-2025-08-20\">2025-08-20<\/a>): <a href=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@agiletortoise\/115051611328041052\">Greg Pierce<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@agiletortoise\/115051611328041052\">\n<p>August 18th and APIs are still changing (looking at you <code>AssetInventory<\/code>)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@chockenberry\/115062276811483601\">Craig Hockenberry<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@chockenberry\/115062276811483601\"><p>Imagine that you&rsquo;re a developer at a company that has had a certain shade of red as a part of their branding for the past 134 years. It&rsquo;s a red that&rsquo;s known worldwide.<\/p><p>You pop that color into your iOS app and quickly realize two things:<\/p><ol><li>The red you specified is not the red that&rsquo;s displayed.<\/li><li>Your brand color is secondary to the chrome that Apple has imposed.<\/li><\/ol><p>Marketing blows a gasket so you start implementing your own controls: without accessibility, device traits, etc.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@craiggrannell\/115060569611617221\">Craig Grannell<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@craiggrannell\/115060569611617221\"><p>If the iOS 26 install intro remains in the final build, yikes. It is a vestibular accessibility <em>disaster<\/em>. Yes, you can skip it, but you&rsquo;ll already have been &lsquo;zapped&rsquo; by that point. And, yes, I&rsquo;m dizzy right now. And not very happy about it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p id=\"ios-26-developer-beta-7-update-2025-08-26\">Update (<a href=\"#ios-26-developer-beta-7-update-2025-08-26\">2025-08-26<\/a>): <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/bzamayo\/status\/1959186935890550820\">Benjamin Mayo<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/x.com\/bzamayo\/status\/1959186935890550820\">\n<p>A funny iOS 26 design quirk is the way this subtitle transitions in Maps: it types out character-by-character as it expands.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/iosdev.space\/@marcpalmer\/115083540072758510\">Marc Palmer<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/iosdev.space\/@marcpalmer\/115083540072758510\"><p>Whatever you think of the glass effect itself in xOS 26, I think it&rsquo;s undeniable that just this is a gigantic improvement. I mean, we&rsquo;ve been complaining about lack of button borders in navigation for ~9 years.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Juli Clover: Apple today provided developers with the seventh betas of iOS 26 and iPadOS 26 for testing purposes, with the updates coming a week after Apple seeded the sixth betas. The release notes are still titled &ldquo;beta 6&rdquo; and don&rsquo;t call out any changes since beta 5. 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