The latest version of Apple software left three iPhones aside when it happened this week – and it took a day for this problem. This is what happened.
Apple publishes iOS 26 public beta for iPhone 11.
Apple published the first public beta version of iOS 26, the software that will be published in September on many iPhones, including current models such as the iPhone 16 Pro Max and the next iPhone 17 series of this fall. The compatibility of the new software extends to the iPhone 11, published for the first time at the end of 2020. Or it should have done it, but three phones were excluded from the version: iPhone 11, iPhone 11 Pro and iPhone 11 Pro Max. This is the full list of compatible phones.
As spotted by Macrumors Commenting on Friday: “Apple did not undertake the iPhone 11 version of the public beta version iOS 26 yesterday, but it is now available. The update has a number of builds of 23a5297n, which is different from the public version 23A5297m that other testers have received, “he reported.
The construction number is almost the same, suggesting that there is very little difference between the two, but whatever the changes, they are there to adapt to 2020 iPhones.
It seems that there was a problem for these models in the beta version, which has now been solved.
“Correction: on the iPhone 11, if you have organized applications in folders on your home screen, you may not see the most on the left column of the application grid when opening a folder. The other two columns in the folder do not display the application icons, preventing users from launching these applications,” said Apple.
It is one of these problems of small but very irritating, so Apple did the right thing, I suggest, to prevent release. To make it the defect in the first meeting of the users of the iPhone 11 with iOS 26 would have been a shame.
A new beta developer has also been published so that developers using iPhone 11 handsets can also see the advantage.
Although the first public beta version has seemed quite solid, it is a reminder that there can be problems, and that it is worth not installing iOS 26 on your daily pilot, but rather to put its brand new design, of additional features and more to the test on a secondary device instead.
