Potential issues with iOS 26 update

Beeerad164 wrote:

Cannot get my phone off DND!

Please describe the steps you're taking to try to turn it off.

Many people find the easiest way is to say, "Siri, turn off do not disturb."

You can also use Control Center. Tap on the icon next to the words "Do Not Disturb." Do not tap on the words as it will just complicate things. It should change from "Do Not Disturb" to "Focus." That means it's off.

Also action button to force phone into vibrate mode isn’t working. You press the button and you see on the screen it being recognized but doesn’t do its function.

Do you have the Action Button set to Silent Mode in Settings>Action Button?

Note that "Silent Mode" doesn't silence everything. It turns off all the system notifications. It doesn't silence music or the alarm.

Just figured it out. I’ve never touched the mute control on the side of the phone. It is covered by my phone case. I flipped the switch on then off. Wallah. No more red bell. Notifications are now working.

iPhone 15

IOS 26.0

Steps to recreate

Control Centr -> Cellural Data -> Tap on Cellural data.

Expected behaviour:

Cellural Data select window opens with Liquid glass Background, similar to Bluetooth select window

Actual behaviour

Select window opens in old IOS 18 style with gray background

felly72 wrote:

Ever since the update iMessage and FaceTime won’t work. Restarted many times and when I turn on iMessage it says activation unsuccessfull. Apple support has no solution for this

Settings, Apps, Messages, turn off iMessage

Settings, Apps, Facetime, turn off Facetime

restart the phone

Settings, Apps, Messages, turn on iMessage

Settings, Apps, Facetime, turn on Facetime

By chance, did you have windowed apps or stage manager enabled? I was excited to see these options and I enabled windowed apps. It seemed great at first, but I soon started experiencing some touch response issues. The next day, I quickly found a lot more touch response issues - and similarly I could not swipe between screens, and I couldn't even shut off the iPad because I couldn't swipe to shut down. Luckily, instead of forcing it, I have an apple pencil connected and it had no issues responding to the pencil touch. After booting back up, it seemed to work again.

Additional info:

I worked as product manager specializing in touch screens, Displays, SaaS and AI, and I recalled having similar bugs occur shortly after adding this windowed style app setup. After a few more months of R&D, we were able to solve the issue and kept this functionality without the bugs. I'm wondering if this is one of the bugs they haven't yet worked out. If changing this setup helps, I'll have to keep it until they resolve the bug. But would be interesting to find out if others had the same experience.

Updated my iPad Pro to 26 last night without any issue. This morning started experiencing unresponsive touchscreen without screen swipe , making killing apps and powering off impossible. Had to hard reset and will see if the touchscreen problem comes back.

My wife’s new 17 Pro Max won’t allow her to use iMessage or FaceTime. Apple support says it’s a known issue with ios26 and some phones. He said they have zero fix at this time, but they have been getting flooded with complaints. Mine setup just fine. Hers refuses to work, and we’ve literally done everything possible, even a factory reset and new backup didn’t work.

First try a Force Restart. Force restart iPhone - Apple Support Then go to Settings>Camera>Camera Control. Then under Launch Camera, see what it set on. It should be set to Camera. Then Single or Double Click, up to you. These are the settings that configure the Camera Control Button.

As far as putting the phone on Silent. That is handled by the Action Button. Check the settings for that at Settings>Action Button, and then set it for Silent if that is what you want. You can also put the phone on silent by going to Settings>Sounds & Haptics>Silent Mode. Lastly, you can open Control Center, find the icon that looks like the bell, tap it until it turns white background, red bell with a red slash through it.

HJM66 wrote:

Not happy - update has killed some of my apps like BBC News and BBC Sport. Neither work anymore.

Have you tried deleting the apps and re-installing them?

Jruiz_24 wrote:

It killed Spotify and YouTube for me

Have you tried deleting the apps and re-installing?

Here's a potential issue: You won't like the way Liquid Glass looks. That seems to be the big gripe.

If you're change-averse, wait a week or more and keep reading the forums. You'll learn a lot about what people like and don't like.

Remember, a lot of things are preferences, not bugs.

Updated my iPhone 16 Pro Max yesterday, and I keep getting asked to put in my Apple ID and password, over and over again. Only fix is it shut the phone off and restart it. Then it works for a while. I do not use Face ID and don’t intend to, so that fix is not an option.

Also, I am now getting old deleted messages listed with my new ones. I keep deleting them, but more come back.

am so sorry that I updated!

I updated my business iPads. We use an MDM and use Kiosk mode. Upon restart, the device is fine. After it auto locks, it cannot be opened without restarting again. Anyone have a solution for this? I'm working on talking with Apple Support about it as well. When it is in the "locked" state, and I try to swipe up then I see a brief message about notifications. Very odd.

I'm using an iPhone 11. After updating to iOS 26,my phone automatically turns on the loudspeaker when I make a call. I experience a delay when searching for contacts, and I also experience a significant delay when searching the web. The phone is overheating, and the charge is also

decreasing while using it.

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IOS 26 worked for one day and has been horrible ever since. I am unable to play music or listen to videos while my phone is locked. I am unable to open the Bluetooth area of the settings app making it impossible to connect to items (AirPods, TV, ect). The phone lags and won’t even shut off when it’s prompted to do so. I so desperately wish I never ungraded because now my phone literally doesn’t work.