Potential issues with iOS 26 update

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

After updating my Iphone 15 to IOS26 my notification sounds suddenly stopped working. Flipping the silent switch on and off fixes it but if I turn off my phone completely notification sounds stop working again

This is a user to user support forum and Apple does not participate here. If you wish to report what you feel are bugs in the software as well as issues you do not like and would like to see changed, then you need to use the feedback link for Apple to see it. Use this link, Feedback - iPhone - Apple You can identify certain things as bugs, and others as regular feedback. That is the only way that Apple will see you complaints.

mikagosz wrote:

iphone 16 pro.

Versions 26 and 26.0.1 have been a complete disaster for years.

Even reinstalling iOS to a clean version using DUF didn't fix the bugs I'm struggling with:

1. True Tone doesn't work.

2. The camera sometimes won't launch, only a black screen.

3. GSM network quality has dropped.

4. Wi-Fi also fluctuates, sometimes failing to load pages even with full coverage.

5. Much lower data transfers on LTE and 5G.

6. In several apps, the on-screen keyboard, instead of disappearing after typing, disappears, leaving a background that covers the entire screen.

7. Safari, browsing images in search engines looks like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-cPoC0Zc5M

or opens an image in half the screen, acting like two screens.

I'm furious, especially since Apple blocked the rollback to iOS 18.

If it was a problem with iOS 26, which millions of people have, you would see thousands of posts about it. Based on the fact we haven’t see that, it is a problem with your phone, not with iOS 26. And even if you could go back it probably wouldn’t fix it. So you need to continue troubleshooting or contact Apple support directly (this is not Apple support, it is a user to user forum).

From a PWA launched via Add to Home Screen, video plays on first launch but fails after a cold relaunch. Tapping Play flips to Pause, yet playback doesn’t start.

Steps to Reproduce:

1. Open a page with an HTML5 <video> (e.g., https://www.w3schools.com/html/html5_video.asp) in Safari.

2. Add to Home Screen and launch.

3. Tap Play → video plays.

4. Force-quit the app.

5. Reopen from Home Screen.

6. Tap Play.

Expected:

Video starts playing.

Actual:

Controls show Pause, but the video is stuck (time doesn’t advance; no audio).

Environment:

- iOS 26/26.0.1; iPadOS 26

- Multiple devices (issue not device-specific)

- Launch mode: Home Screen (standalone/PWA)

ps. Very occasionally it does play, but it’s sporadic.

Related tickets:

iOS 26 Video Playback Bug – Opened via Bu… - Apple Community

https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=300115

songmann wrote:

CarPlay is an absolute dumpster fire with iOS 26. I updated last night and today while traveling I have had at least a dozen different problems when using CarPlay. Phone calls not working, apps freezing, my car stereo shutting down inexplicably, multiple calls showing as active at the same time with no audio, control buttons failing to do anything, inability to answer incoming calls, screens locking up, inability to reboot the phone because it’s frozen…. And those are only the ones I can easily remember. You’ve basically turned my phone into a paperweight. Who quality checked this joke of a release?????? And my only reversion option is to wipe my phone back to a clean slate and start over? Steve Jobs would’ve cleaned house over there.

First of all, "we" didn't do anything to your phone. We are ALL users on this user to user only forum. No one here works for or is associated with Apple at all. And chaneling Steve Jobs is rather amusing, but wrong. Steve Jobs had plenty of problems with many devices over the years. "You're holding it wrong" comes to mind as just one example!

I have absolutely no issues with iOS 26. No issues with dropped calls. No issues with CarPlay (wireless or wired). I'm not doubting you have issues, but to assume they are universal to ALL users is simply wrong.

Do you have a VPN installed on your iPhone? VPNs have caused a LOT of issues for a LOT of users. They aren't needed. If you have a VPN, don't just turn it off. Remove it completely from your phone. That means opening Settings > General > VPN & Device Management - remove any VPN profile, then remove ANY VPN app. Then restart your iPhone.

Also, check for infotainment updates from your cars system. Some car manufacturers just didn't roll out updates to their infotainment systems, further complicating issues with CarPlay.

Also, if you do want to share your thoughts with Apple, this is how you can do that --> Product Feedback - Apple

Marvin-2 wrote:

iOS 26. It listens to my streaming services and sometimes it obeys commands of the actors. For example when someone said search for a new CEO a drop-down menu appeared in front of the screen and it searched for a CEO.

If your content has anything that sounds like “Siri” it will listen to audible content, then try to do a search. As a first step go to Settings/Apple Intelligence & Siri and change the voice prompt to “Hey, Siri”, or turn it off completely and use the side button to invoke Siri.

Exceptions system for family management is bugged, and will take away apps even if the exception was given, and ask for a second exception which you can’t get.

An error occurs with the keyboard when selecting the mini keyboard on the right or left in Swedish language mode. It is not possible to switch to numbers; I have to change the language in order to be able to switch to numbers and symbols like -, :, ), (.