Please use this megathread for any and all discussion related to iOS/iPadOS 27 Developer Beta 6 and the corresponding public beta (when available).
This thread will be open until the next developer beta becomes available.
By AppleVis, 17 August, 2026
Forum
Apple Beta Releases
Share Your Bug Reports with AppleVis
If you experience a bug in Apple Beta Software, the most important thing you can do is to file a report in Feedback Assistant. Please do not assume that Apple is already aware of a bug or that your report won't make a difference; your report may provide crucial information, and submitting bug reports directly to Apple helps them reproduce and resolve the issue faster. The more reports they receive, the higher the priority Apple is likely to give to fixing the bug.
If you are using beta software, please use the Feedback Assistant on your device to submit feedback and bug reports. If you are using a public release, this blog post explains how to report the issue and what information to include.
In 2025, AppleVis launched the Community Bug Reporting Program with the goal of improving the quality and quantity of information we share with the community about bugs in Apple software releases. If you would like to contribute to this effort, please submit your reports via our Community Bug Report Form.
All reports shared with AppleVis must first be filed with Apple via Feedback Assistant. More information about the Community Bug Program is available here.
Comments
Installing ...
The size was just above 2 gigabytes on my 17 Pro Max, so I'm not expecting any major changes, even when it comes to bugfixes, but we'll see. I'll report back my findings.
My findings
Mine came in at about 916.2 MB on my iPhone 15, so definitely small indeed.
Either the "VoiceOver lacking low end" has finally been fixed, or it has been improved. Alex definitely sounds a lot fuller.
Notification bugs
Did the bugs on 27 regarding notifications not clearing are history?
Seems to work fine
I'm not sure if I've had this bug before or not, as I am not one that is good at clearing notifications. But when I clicked clear, then another click to confirm, it emptied my notification center, leaving the most recent one visible.
tunmi13
Bug. It is in beta 5 or public 3 beta. Have it on my iPad 9. Nuts.
I've had that one for months.
Nothing new there, and I didn't download the beta until last weekend.
spelling suggestions in BSI?
Am I correct in assuming that spelling suggestions no longer work in BSI?
I disabled autocorrection, and the commands section still shows previous and next suggestions but they aren't working for me.
Double tap, hold and flick with three fingers
I've seen these gestures in commands settings, but whenever I try using them I end up activating single handed mode in braille screen input and have not found a way to disable that gesture, apart from turning off activation gestures entirely which I don't want to do since I use them with two handed mode.
Just some findings I have and am wondering if anyone has any suggestions on what to try for these to behave correctly.
Continuing bugs
Voiceover, Alex, still sounds bad. I just went from vanilla 26 to 27 dev beta and the contrast is obvious.
Image description still refuses to describe 'sensitive content'.
Subjects in images are still not gendered.
Oliver
Apple will not change. Privacy issues. I think in iPhone pro 18 and up third party be able to use the camera. I think 9to5 mention it. I might be wrong.
re: Spelling suggestions in BSI
Unfortunately the BSI spelling suggestions no longer work correctly since beta 4 or so. The only way is for you to enable autocorrection, and if you don't want the word autocorrected, you swipe down with one finger after space.
Privacy issues?
I'm not sure how that works? I know they don't want to take actual photos on the new airpods with cameras, rather it will all be secured inside apple AI. Not sure how that translates to sensitivity and gendre. The example was, checking out photos on X (grim place), said it wouldn't describe an image... Which of course interested me more, and frustrated me with an artificial barrier (think it was a lady with her leg out... not sure though) and the gendre thing, looking at pictures of my niece and nephew it just said children, meaning I couldn't easily tell them apart. They have gendres, they dress as a boy and a girl... I'm not sure how turning off that distinction is useful to anyone.
Agree with Oliver
No need to turn it off, if I pay for the iphone, I should be able to look at whatever photos I want, and have them described, if nobody else has the barriers, why should we
I don't see writing tools anymore.
It says writing tools, but it doesn't look like it used to and I couldn't do anything. I couldn't even get out of the note Icreated because it was all letters. At least the old way made sense. Missed calls in the phone app is still broken. It still shows the entire call history. I'm not sure what this version is all about if nothing works.
Image descriptions won't include gender
Hi. Because we live in a modern culture where gender is not considered relevant anymore, image descriptions won't include the gender of the subjects that's also true for me in the Google world using Gemini image descriptions
Interestingly
If you ask for the gendre in a follow up question it does say, it just doesn't offer it up on first description, which is a bit odd. I noticed that you can set a default question for live description, it would be nice if we could specify how images are described to us rather than this rather vanilla version which seems terrified of making any judgement at all.
I guess it will do. It's helpful to go through all my photos at least and label them all, a person with brown hair and a short beard... I can only assume, that's me.