The third public beta of Apple’s iOS 26 has just landed, and it comes with a few minor tweaks and adjustments for your iPhone. But there’s one change that has really caught my eye, and it’s made my iPhone feel so much faster in the process.

Apple has a new iOS beta for developers — iOS 26 beta 7. And if you have an Apple developer account, beta 7 is available now. While this particular beta comes pretty late in the cycle — it's the seventh developer beta for iOS 26, launched alongside the fourth public iOS 26 beta — it still comes with a couple of notable new features.

OS 26 beta 7 is now available to download, bringing even more new features and fixes to the iPhone software just weeks ahead of the official launch.

In addition to a new adaptive mode for battery saving, Apple is adding another new battery function in iOS 26. Users now receive explicit notifications.

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Developer Craig Hockenberry says Apple's guidelines for the polarizing Liquid Glass design language could hint at a possible iPhone Fold or an all-glass iPhone.

Apple’s latest developer betas make the iPhone quieter and quicker while the iPad grows up with real windowing, on-device smarts, and a privacy posture that lets you work rather than wrestle.I have lived on iOS 26 and iPadOS 26 developer betas through for the last few months ever since their unveil at WWDC 2026,

Apple's divisive new Liquid Glass design language in iOS 26 could be hinting at a major hardware redesign coming to future iPhones,