Yeah, so far no stoppers that I've found. I generally like the look but I think as the betas progress they're probably going to dial down some of the transparency - the notifications on my Lock Screen and the control center icons are very hard to read because I have a kind of busy background picture.
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This is about my biggest real gripe thus far. And like you said, it relates to my Lock Screen background picture.
Also not really a fan of the keyboard's more rounded off corners.
The CarPlay changes are really good. I have a smaller screen which means no room for widgets on the primary screen but it is still great. There are also in app Map changes I've noticed. It notified me of train tracks and there is some additional detail showing.
All good here. Been running it for a few hours. The weirdest thing is the UI stuff that has and hasn't been changed.
Just installed and surprisingly, I do not hate it. There is room for some iterative changes but it's not bad. Rather legible as well.
Thus far all installed apps are working fine.
https://www.macrumors.com/2025/06/12/ios-26-automix-apple-music/
Can confirm this feature is really good. Was so surprised by a song transition that I pressed the headunit's AppleMusic icon to see what happened (was using Maps at the time).
Liking it so far. Definitely needs a fair bit of polish but seems to be very stable and I’ve only come across a couple of noticeable bugs.
I have found one inter thing worth mentioning; the new ‘visited places’ feature isn’t available to me. Might not be available in Australia yet? Apple did a similar thing with other features in previous betas.
I've used the updated CarPlay a few times and I do not see any listing of 'visited places'. In the US so maybe it's not an exposed feature yet.
Seems really stable for the first beta so far, but have a couple of minor quirks.
Face ID to unlock the phone intermittently stops working and o have to fall back to my PIN.
A lot of third party messaging apps (Beeper, Discord, WhatsApp, etc) suffer from the message window being pushed off the top of the screen when I type a message/pop the keyboard.
Also, obviously my bank app no longer works but that’s always expected.
The new liquid glass UI looks great.
No Face ID issues thus far, but I can say third party app issues are to be expected. If there is a public beta track for their app there is a chance the developer will address those issues with a beta release. If not, you will have to wait for Apple to refine iOS 26 to the point the dependent behavior is resolved, Apple current released version of Xcode allows iOS 26 fixes, or for the GM release.
At this point I am experiencing some annoying CarPlay iMessage reply inconsistencies while music or a third party podcast app is playing.