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I am looking forward to installing the iPadOS 26 beta tomorrow if my iPad 9 is supported

I'll be unavailable once again for the live broadcast, but I'm hoping to catch it on-demand. As for what I'd like to see--or rather hear--during the keynote address, I'm kinda hoping for a fix for the issue with my hearing-aid charger. I believe I briefly mentioned this in another thread. That is, if in fact it is a VoiceOver issue. But I'm currently trying to figure it out. I just started a book which may or may not answer the question, so fingers and toes crossed. These are great hearing aids though. I'd also like to see a fix for eSpeak, where it will remain the TTS of choice when selected. Or perhaps this has already been fixed, but I've not chosen that recently.

I'll take the plunge tomorrow. Not worried about anything. I'm sure it will be accessible. Apple does a great job of including accessibility out of the box. This redesign was probably being worked on for a little so I'm sure it is accessible.

I will probably install the beta tomorrow.
Over the years I have noticed that the betas seem to work mostly well with apps and all.

Same here. I'm not worried about anything. As long as we continue submit bugs via the feedback hub, we're good. I'm very excited on testing apple's design change for its next batch of operating systems.

i will admit from what i remember the IPADOS 18 beta was more stable than i thought

With the redesine i don’t know, based on the bugs i am having right now on the stable version i don’t have mutch confidence in apple to fix things and make them work but we will see

My mac will be tortured again :) but I have two partitions, and summer time no school no job no money (no worries guys)... 😂

Salute to those brave people. I will wait for the third beta. Good luck to all and remember keep sending report about bugs.

I always report and do so after every new build. So, if my FB is FB1234, put in whatever issue you want. When Beta 2 is out and the issue found in FB1234
isn't fixed from Beta 1, I add a new comment and say it isn't fixed as of Beta 2 and give the build number. I continue to do this until it is fixed.

hey guys.
Just over 8 hours to go until WWDC keynote event.

Real question here, we agree that when issue in beta 1 is not fixed in beta 2 we just do add information in the feedback of beta 1 with the build number where it's still not working right? That's what I do. We don't create a new report each time I think right?

well i have bin doing thinggs wrong this hole time? cause i have bin creating new feedback's for the same issue for as long as i've bin bata testing

can someone tell me how to add to your feedback?

done it once but don't remember how i did it

thanks

If this approach is right, there is a button at the end add more information or something like that...

Yes, that is correct. at the end of each feedback there is an add more information button, where you can add in additional information to an existing feedback.

Thanks.

New spotlight on mac looks sick. Think this is going to be something pretty special for us.

He stated, "Trust but verify". Will see last year apple put one over me with AI and I got the 16 pro max for that.

So guys what do you all think of this liquid glass design thing?
Will be interesting how it works with voiceover.
Hopefully it can keep up LOL.
I'm sure it will.
Who's installing beta 1 of IOS?

Not only is that problematic, but it confuses and even delays getting a an issue resolved. It is very very very very important to add information to existing reports. Not just create new one. If you have multiple reports of the same issue open, I encourage you to close the extra ones out.

iPad announcements honestly seem like a big step forward for the real power users of the iPad.
No multi account though, this is, kind of, for vision pro, guest mode! Adobe and other pro apps coming there as well.
They honestly did better in the keynote than I thought. No apology for the apple intelligence mess but again Everybody wanted it but nobody really expected anything, so...
Native clipboard manager on the mac, finally!
Yeah. Spotlight will be cool if accessibility follows.
New phone app on mac and ipad, synced from iphone!
Journal app coming, only to the ipad unfortunately.
Live activities on the mac! This is cool.
Phone app everywhere will be getting a real redesign for us too as they are kinda merging favorites, recent and voicemail tabs into one single view?
Tabs are back in the photos app as! As far as I understand it at least. And I think Camera finally got that redesign everyone wanted in terms of customizing all the amount of features, etc. But I am blind so can't really comment but from my understanding it sounds useful.
My favourite feature if it works well will be hold assist, game changer for me personally.

I thought the keynote overall was pretty good. The opening trailor got my attention even though it was kind of advertising an Apple TV+ flick at the same time.

I'm excited to play with the song mixing in Apple Music.

The call screening and hold stuff will be really cool, even though it's something borrowed from Galaxy and Pixel phones. It'll be interesting to see how they work.

Good they finally brought the journal app to the iPad, but strangely not to the Mac.

That song at the end literally made me lol. Hope it shows up on Apple Music.

Actually looks like the journal app is indeed coming to the Mac, and you can now keep separate journals. This could be cool!

Just hoping they fix some of the accessibility issues when you try to write based on a contact or something you've been listening to.

Like that we will not have to deal with music is a pain when waiting. Also the phone will let you know if the person who put you on hold is on the line. This is good. Same with deleting unknown messages. We had it but apple took it back.

Hello all! I'm excited to try out the beta but i'm waiting you guys till one of you've installed the beta and say something about it, will i have not bricked my iphone if i install beta1?

Don't use the beta on primary device. this comes up every year. It's not a shortcut to getting the latest and greatest. Things may well work and then break. As people who rely on our iPhones more than most, it's better to stick with the devil you know.

Saying that, I'm going to get the beta on my iPad mini because I can muck about with that without too many issues and, if it turns out to be a mess, I can downgrade without too many issues.

Sorry to sound overly cautious.

Rule of thumb is, only get the beta if you are happy to report bugs, otherwise, hold out until it works as expected. We're far more likely to encounter issues with our phones than sighted peers as we don't only have the main OS to deal with but the overlay of voiceover working correctly with it.

I agree with Oliver 110% on this. I strongly recommend against using the betas on a primary-use device. Even if Beta 1 is great, that is no guarantee that Betas 2 or 3 (or even some of the later ones!) will be just as stable.

Yeah, I do it only because I know and am personally interested in reporting.
VO on mac got some real love this year guys, see my thread. Some developer options added......... :)

That disclaimer out of the way I haven't found any huge show stopper bugs. I found no bugs really which is a good thing.