The first public beta of the next-generation iPhone software has landed, but it took longer for iPhone 11 users. Here’s what happened.
Apple 's iOS 26 public beta initially excluded iPhone 11 models due to a bug affecting app folders, preventing users from seeing all app icons. The issue was quickly resolved within a day, with Apple releasing a specific software build to fix the problem for these devices. Apple ’s latest software release left out three iPhones when it happened this week — and it took a day for this problem to be resolved. Here’s what happened.
The build number is almost the same, suggesting there’s very little difference between the two, but whatever the changes, they’re there to suit the 2020 iPhones.“Fixed: On iPhone 11, if you have organized apps into folders on your Home Screen, you might only see the leftmost column of the grid of apps when opening a folder. The other two columns in the folder do not display the app icons, preventing users from launching those apps,” Apple said.
This is one of those small-but-highly-irritating problems, so Apple did the right thing, I’d suggest, to hold off releasing it. For this to be the blemish on iPhone 11 users’ first encounter with iOS 26 would have been a shame. A new developer beta has also been released so that developers using iPhone 11 handsets can see the benefit, too.
Although the first public beta has seemed pretty solid, it’s a reminder that there can be issues, and that it’s worth not installing iOS 26 on your daily driver just yet, but rather put its all-new design, extra features and more to the test on a secondary device instead.
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