Under normal conditions, stable/official updates should still show up if you have opted to receive beta updates. I had to disable that in the settings for the stable iOS 26.0 update to even show up though. Not only that, I got some irritating storage warning, and selected the option "Optimize Storage" or however it appears with the language set to English, to offload some apps. The download finally started, but then I got another alert that the device didn't have enough storage to download the update. Then I started removing some apps that were not uninstalled or offloaded earlier, but the available storage space would drop rather than increase every time I removed an app. I restarted the device several times, all to no avail. One of those useless restarts I performed after redownloading WhatsApp in the hopes of finding and deleted some unnecessary files/media, but the used storage suddenly jumped from 47.something GB to 49.something GB. Those restarts must've also left me with no choice but to go download each one of the offloaded or removed apps myself as the update was aborted, which number in the hundreds. And by hundreds, I mean approximately 300. Anyway, I eventually connected the iPhone to my computer, opened the Apple Devices app and selected "Check for Updates". All I got was yet another alert informing me that the device had the latest iOS version installed. Well does it have the latest version just because it has some beta version of iOS 26 installed? Why do different builds exist then? Exactly for the very purpose of preventing confusion, and yet it is Apple's very own app that fails to distinguish between a beta version and a stable one. What do I do now? All the apps are gone, so all I have left is a device with gigs of mysterious "system data" that I can never access, let alone delete. Like classified, heavily guarded intel. I can't install the update either, not only because the device still lacks enough storage space to download and install it. If you're gonna tell me to report the issue to Apple, the infuriating storage issues I've reported more than once if I recall correctly, but definitely at least once. So it's a device that fails to calculate how much free storage it has, and an app that fails to distinguish between different builds of an operating system in 2025.
By Enes Deniz, 16 September, 2025
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Subject field in That sounds incredibly frustrating. I’m so sorr
That sounds so incredibly frustrating. I have no idea what the problem could be. I’m sorry. I really wish I did. As far as you’re reporting it to Apple well, you may need to do it again or you may need to have somebody at least you know screen sharing your device if you can even have access to that currently what’s going on? I don’t know. I really wish I had a better answer for you than this, but that is so incredibly frustrating. I have never paid a tested so just the fact that you wanted to do that if I’m super brave. Cause I know what kind of crazy things can come out of that. What device are you using? I mean it shouldn’t matter no device should be doing that anyway just asking out of curiosity. Just out of curiosity
@Singer Girl
Let me be frank: Your posts are not particularly helpful, and they're long and repetitive, as you have expressed elsewhere yourself. I appreciate your empathy and attention but repeating stuff I've already done more than once won't be of any help in this situation. I kindly ask for your understanding in a situation where, as you stated, I tried to explain in the subject line and post body as well.