Everything New in iOS 26.1 Beta 2

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Apple released the 2nd beta of iOS 26.1 and iPadOS 26.1, introducing utile changes to alarms, multitasking connected the iPad, and more. There are besides subtle tweaks to immoderate of the Liquid Glass plan elements arsenic Apple continues to refine iOS 26.

Alarms and Timers

Alarms acceptable utilizing the Clock app present person a descent to halt fastener alternatively than a pat to halt fastener connected the Lock Screen. To snooze an alarm, you tin tap, but to crook it disconnected from the Lock Screen, you request to usage a descent gesture.

The alteration makes it overmuch harder to disregard an alarm erstwhile you're trying to pat connected the snooze button. Slide to Stop is besides utilized for timers.

Background Security Improvements

The Privacy and Security conception of the Settings app present has a toggle to automatically download and instal information improvements. It's a revamp of the anterior Rapid Security Responses feature.

Fitness App

You tin present make customized workouts successful the Fitness app connected iPhone. There are options for selecting workout type, estimated Active Calories, effort, duration, and commencement time.

Settings App

Apple changed the alignment of icons and substance successful the Settings app. All settings with headers that diagnostic substance present person that substance aligned to the near alternatively of halfway aligned.

This includes General, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, Cellular, Personal Hotspot, Accessibility, and more.

Display Settings

The Display conception of the Settings app present has iOS 26-themed wallpaper alternatively of iOS 18 wallpaper.

Home Screen Folders

When you pat into a folder connected the Home Screen, the sanction of the folder astatine the apical is near aligned alternatively of halfway aligned.

iPadOS 26.1 Slide Over

With iPadOS 26.1 beta 2, Apple reintroduced Slide Over. Slide Over works alongside the window-based iPadOS 26 multitasking functionality, truthful you tin person aggregate windows unfastened and inactive swipe implicit to rapidly entree a Slide Over app.

You tin lone person 1 Slide Over app astatine a clip successful iPadOS 26.1, and you tin usage the diagnostic by tapping connected the greenish model resizing fastener and
toggling connected Enter Slide Over.

External Microphones connected iPad

There's present an enactment to set input summation connected the ‌iPad‌ erstwhile utilizing an outer microphone.

Liquid Glass

The airy refraction effect astir apps is present much subtle with darker icon colors and inheritance colors.

Wallpaper

When mounting a wallpaper connected the Lock Screen, instructions similar Pinch to Crop amusement up momentarily and past disappear, alternatively than being shown each the time.

Display Accessibility

Under the Display and Text Size conception successful the Accessibility settings, determination is simply a caller "Display Borders" toggle. It adds a borderline to each buttons, and replaces the anterior "Button Shapes" setting.

Calendar

The Calendar app alteration that showed events with a afloat colour inheritance successful iOS 26.1 beta 1 has been removed.

Photos App

The interface for managing aggregate photos that you've selected has been tweaked slightly. Play arsenic Slideshow, Favorite, and Hide are present astatine the apical of the menu.