iOS 26 beta 2 released

Hi, For those that are using eloquence, the community dictionary has been fixed. also, Mark as read and delete rotor options has returned in the messages app.

1. What's new in VoiceOver link has returned in the voiceover settings under accessibility. You can once again double tap on the link and it will display a list of features that are available while voiceover is running.
2. Apparently when you adjust the audio ducking amount under voiceover audio settings, it doesn't change the volume as expected. Appears to be a bug. But it can easily be resolved by turning audio ducking off and then back on again to while speaking. This will change the volume back to the way you have said it either by 80 or 99%.
3. the higher sample rate toggle button for eloquence has been fixed as well.

That's all the changes I have noticed so far. Overall, so far so good.

ps. The vibrations have returned for all apps including third-party ones such as WhatsApp and the Chime speaking clock app. It was broken in Beta 1, but it has been fixed in beta 2, so all vibration notifications are once again working.

Did anyone notice the new ringtone in beta 2? If you double tap on "Reflection", you now have the option for "Default" or "Alt 1", which I'm assuming is a beta label and will be renamed in future versions.
Overall, I think it sounds kinda cool; they're definitely trying to slap the liquid glass branding onto their sound design.

Single hand mode has been fixed. Like beta 1, so far so good! Awesome new ringtone!

Hi, I have tonice the new ringtone as well. Very cool.

Some people were concerned they could not delete messages via the rotor. You had to triple tap the message in order to delete. This is no longer the case. Delete is back in the rotor.

So has anyone noticed that the messages app is acting weird.
like it sometimes says your Imessage for your message and the person responding to your messages their name and the message then sometimes it just reads the messages without saying anything.
Has anyone noticed this issue in messages?

after you use the three finger quadruple tap to copy something to the clipboard, you will see a new rotor option for a copied speech. I’m not sure exactly what this is used for, but it looks like you now have a way to manage it?

I have read somewhere that in IOS 26, there's the option to activate custom ringtones without having to go through ITunes. Has anyone tried that yet?

Have loss of speech and voice issues been resolved in this beta?

This looks like the speech history found in some screen readers, with the added ability of copying to the clipboard.

That site also has an article on device recovery.

I wonder how that would work with Voiceover, if at all.

Because generally there's no speech during the bootup process.

I don’t see why device recovery wouldn't be accessible in this case. I mean, if they made it work for mac boot picker with Apple Silicon chips? They should be able to do the same thing here.

The gestures for BSI (Double tap two fingers the far edges) now work.

Worked for me in beta 1, except in the Settings app, now fixed.

I concur. If they have made macOS Recovery accessible why not Device Recovery, AKA Recovery Assistant?

I lost speach yesterday a few hours after installing beta 2

Focus jumps are still there when opening an app using the hable and focus still jumps when pressing dot 8 to do a space

Think Dennis says it's a hable issue, not sure if I believe that cause it doesn't happen with android, I was having a focus jump when I would do a space but switching the keyboard to gboard fixed that