{"id":49115,"date":"2025-09-03T15:25:43","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T19:25:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=49115"},"modified":"2025-09-09T11:47:26","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T15:47:26","slug":"ios-26-developer-beta-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/03\/ios-26-developer-beta-9\/","title":{"rendered":"iOS 26 Developer Beta 9"},"content":{"rendered":"

Juli Clover<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Apple today provided developers with the ninth betas of iOS 26 and iPadOS 26 for testing purposes, with the updates coming a week after Apple seeded the eighth betas.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

The release notes<\/a> don’t call out any changes since beta 5.<\/p>\n\n

Mario Guzmán<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Not everything needs to have round end caps 🙄 look how close the album artwork now is to the edges. But move it in any closer, now the labels become useless. Concentricity is total bs.<\/p>\n

Why are these designers creating more problems for themselves and us with dumb things like concentricity — which is something literally no one asked for.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Louie Mantia<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Verifiably been sounding the alarm for a month on effects bugs with OS 26 and Icon Composer. No fixes. They’re gonna ship it.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Steve Troughton-Smith<\/a>:<\/p>\n

I don’t see progress on any bugs of mine in beta 9, so I think it’s time to wait for 26.1. I suspect the things they are fixing are to support their apps and new iPhones only, and it has been like that for a while now<\/p>

Just to be sure, I re-checked everything I’ve filed since June. Even the SpringBoard crashers are still unresolved 😶<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n

Adam Bell<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Beta 9 and UINavigationBar<\/code>’s backButtonItem<\/code> still doesn’t respect -hidesSharedBackground<\/code> or -sharesBackground<\/code>.<\/p>\n

:(<\/p>\n

Effectively means you’re SOL if you do any custom back button designs and don’t want a glass background (or you end up doing weird workarounds with leftBarButtonItems<\/code>)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Nick Heer<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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I have never had a problem sending photos to contacts over iMessage until I upgraded to iOS 26, which is a cool indication of where we’re at in early September.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Marc Palmer<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Given that we make an app that frames screenshots, I would very much like it if Apple fixes the bugs in iOS 26 where sometimes the system screenshot UI just doesn’t show.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n

Nico Reese<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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iOS fails to render icons as they are displayed in Icon Composer when using blend mode Screen on a layer.<\/p>\n

This is bad. You cannot know for certain if what you put into your icon looks exactly like what you ship. This is even worse for designers who are not developers and have no idea why this happens. They should not have to think about this stuff.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Louie Mantia<\/a>:<\/p>\n

I am not surprised. I am disappointed.<\/p>\n

Icons made in Icon Composer do not render identically on home screens as they do in Icon Composer. This is a complication that never existed for my job before, where I deliver an icon to a client, and the deliverable is broken through no fault of my own. A bug. I’m an icon designer, not a developer. For the first time, I have to deal with bugs.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n

Marc Palmer<\/a>:<\/p>\n

So on iPad at least, it seems like everybody’s keyboard is broken in 26. Remember to take your iPad back to the Apple Store to the keyboard repaired.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n

Adrian Schönig<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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iOS 26 call screening is incredibly good. I had my phone muted for unknown calls the last few years thanks to all those data leaks from various big Aussie companies, that had lead to tons of spam calls.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Previously:<\/p>\n