iOS 26 Beta 5 Changes, New Features, Release Notes

Here are iOS 26 beta 5 changes, new features and release notes that you as an iPhone or iPad user needs to know about.

As you may already know by now, Apple today released beta 5 of iOS 26 couple of weeks after beta 4 seed.

This new beta 5 seed brings with it a few changes, and we have a running list of everything that is changed below.

Ready? Here we go:

  • Fixes photos app bug where video still plays in the background when switching to another video.
  • New Fitness+ icon
  • New Splash screen for the Music app.
  • Bottom tab bar no longer cut off in Safari
  • New low battery Dynamic Island pop-up
  • Dock is now thicker and glassier
  • “Classic Mode Switching” for Camera app
  • New AirDrop icon

If we spot anything new other than what is mentioned above, we will be back with a report on it. In the meantime, if you have installed iOS 26 beta 5 and have noticed new changes we don’t already know about, feel free to share with us in the comments section below.

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