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So, here’s something that’s super annoying. I noticed that my little Mail icon down in the dock is no longer showing a notification when I get new messages. Turns out this is because of some new feature called “Categories”.
Apparently the Mail badge is now set by default to only count messages in the “Primary” category. (Whatever the F that is! Thanks, Apple!)
To fix this and show the unread count for all mail, you must adjust your notification settings, thus:
How to Enable the All Unread Messages Badge:
Open the Settings.
Scroll down and tap Apps > Mail, then tap Notifications.
Tap Customize Notifications.
Under the "Badge Count" section, change to All Unread Messages.
There you go. That’s the solution, if you’re one of the other 100 million users confused by this helpful new “feature “.
Thank you for this!
Whut? Wow. What were they thinking making that a default? 🙄
Thanks @Lady_App_titude.
I don't think it affected me since the very first thing I did when I opened mail after the update was to turn off the Categories feature. (tap
...on the top-right and switch to List View).Right. So did I. But I'm not actually sure if that turned it off. If you tap on that menu and view "About Categories" it will tell how it's been categorizing messages. It's probably worth enabling the Notification setting as well. By the way, Categories was added to iPadOS 18 at some time; it's not new with 26.
Latency... with IOS 26 there is a significant **improvement **in latency!
I measured the latency with my Zoom AMS 44 before and after the update, and I was quite surprised when I compared the values...
The measurement is the physical latency, measured with Round Trip Latency Meter and a loopback cable.
I am quite impressed how well 26 works on my iPad 9th gen. Not sure if this is GUI design psychology, but everything looks and feels smoother and faster. And one of the biggest annoyances for me is gone: The three split screen dots hanging right in the middle of the screen top - and often in the way. The new window mode is much better and does not interfere with the UI when not used.
Usually I am a bit hesitant with major upgrades, but the temptation of the new audio selection feature won...
Thank you for sharing these measurements, @Panhardleft.
I'm trying to figure out why I keep having so much trouble typing with iPadOS 26, why I keep making so many typos. I'm having a hard time finding much info about this online, about what changes were made to the design of the on-screen keyboard in iPadOS 26.
So I took a screenshot of my keyboard on iPadOS 26 and then took one of the keyboard my friend's iPad (which had iOS 17, but I assume the 18 keyboard is the same. ?)
This is the keyboard on iPadOS 17:
This is the keyboard on iPadOS 26:
It looks like the keys are much narrower. There are extra keys, or wider keys, on the side of the q, a, and z and extra ".?123" buttons on either side of the spacebar that make the spacebar about a third the size it used to be. I keep hitting that damn ".?123" key by accident! I believe, all of this is why I keep making so many typos now.
I wish I could find a way to change it back to the old keyboard layout. I can't believe we aren't seeing more complaints about this online.
Keyboard-gate!
The window mode is great on iPad Pro M2. This feels very close to a MacBook when used with the Magic Keyboard. This is very helpful when working with documents - I’m job hunting and it’s a lot easier flipping between a job posting, a resume, notes, ChatGPT, etc. all open at once. Also very nice using multiple Lumbeat drummers - sending grooves is a lot more manageable.
Has anyone played much with using software midi controllers, and latency with iPadOS 26? I spend a significant amount of time using geoshred to control other auv3s, and I'm concerned about updating in case these apps become less responsive, or "playable" due to latency or sluggishness of the OS. Anyone have feedback on this?
Fwiw, 1.2 ms may be a measurable difference but I wouldn’t call it significant. That is below the threshold of differences you can notice.
That's odd. After upgrading my iPad 9 from iOS 18 to 26 today the keyboard looks exactly the same as before. I use two layouts (UK English and German), and I notice the German keyboard shows more keys (for the umlauts). So maybe it's a matter of checking your default keyboard layout.
The keyboards on 11" and 13" devices are different sizes, on the 11" there's hardly any difference between iPadOS17, 18 and 26 when it comes to the actual size of the keyboard just some graphical differences.
I could find no options to customize the keyboard other than change language (and stuff like turn on/off auto-correct).
Only thing I can think of that might account for the difference is that I'm on a 12.9 in iPad Pro.
Could it be that there is a different keyboard for the larger-sized iPads?
That's funny. It seems like Apple has tried to do what Typefinity (former Padkeys) has done for years. This screenshot is from my 11" iPad and the keys are not squeezed as you show. In fact, they became slightly wider when I moved from the classic 9.7" screen to this one. Are you maybe using the 12.9" screen in portrait mode?
The news here, I think, is that latency is not getting worse -- which I had worried it might.
Nope. Not in portrait mode.
This is CRA CRA!
I guess I need to sell my 12.9 and buy an 11-inch iPad!
I just googled, and apparently (acc to AI Google) the 11 inch and 12.9 inch iPad on-screen keyboards are different and it's been that way for years! Who the F knew!
Google offers an IOS App called “Gboard” that presents the older larger key scheme like this on my iPad Pro:
It’s a bit tricky to set up IMHO but doable.
Microsoft makes one too that looks like this:
NOTE: You can navigate between several keyboards installed/configured but the MS seems to hide the “Globe” widget behind the Emoji widget labeling it “Next Keyboard” with the Globe icon displayed. I didn’t find it easily and that’s probably the intent. Turn it on and hope it never gets turned off. Both the Google and MS keyboards seem intended to queue up their respective AI features for language translation and potentially a lot more.
The default iPad Pro onscreen keyboard looks like this:
Some of the app icon wobbling and waving in 26 got on my nerves. Gladly there is an accessibility setting “Reduce Motion” that turns this circus off.
The all-knowing A.I.-enhanced Google just gave me this result!
We should definitely sell our souls to the Good Lord A.I.
@Lady_App_titude lol the gaslighting A.I.
Re: Logic Pro and memory management
I’m reading that 26 made changes to memory management. Wondering if these changes might impact any of the intermittent bugs in logic for better or worse. Here are two…
Modifier modules losing reference to specific parameter mappings in the output field upon reopening the project, forcing you to constantly remap the outputs. You get “loading from settings” message in output but it never loads.
Opening a project to find random notes in multiple tracks transposed by an octave. Yep. It’s happened in several projects for me.
I was thinking maybe the file/memory management changes might impact Logic. If its even possible i would take the plunge now.
Oooh. I like that new design. I haven't updated yet, but that's motivating me to think about it. As a fast touch typist, things are situated far more like what I'm used to. I might actually be able to type on something like that.
In my head it seems like it'll be better anyway. Maybe I'll hate it for realz.
I don't think it'll take most people a huge amount of time to adapt.
Well, if you use an actual external keyboard (which I don't), it probably matches better the layout of the physical keyboard. That may have been the thinking for Apple.
I try to type as little as possible on an iPad. Just short text replies and such. But even for that, I find I'm hating it. I think the main problem is the tiny space bar. I keep hitting that .?123 key, and before I realize it, I've already typed a bunch of wrong characters. So in my case, as fast typist, with 15 years of muscle memory on the old layout, it's not what I would call a bundle of joy. But I'll keep trying to learn.. Kinda like a shock collar approach to altering behavior.
Type-type-type, D'oh!, backspace-backspace, type-type-type, D'oh! Rinse, repeat.
You're right @Lady_App_titude - I didn't notice the tiny space bar. That sucks!
All those extra keys on the bottom row should be nowhere near as large as they are. 😡
That is just plain stupid. wtf?!??
(iOS 26 13in iPad Pro M2)
Safari doesn’t make new tabs smaller anymore as you keep adding them. Not cool by me…
More importantly, there’s still no multitasking. I don’t really understand what the new “intensive tasks” background tasks feature is, why can’t it just NOT freeze background apps when it’s plugged in? Maybe someone knows of a good YouTube video explaining what’s going on?
My for example is Affinity Photo 2. I can be using it, go to safari for as little as a couple minutes, come back and the app has “crashed” (I call this “deloading”). Sure it’s Affinity’s fault but the point is, it can’t stay in a freeze state unless memory conditions are perfect and it def can’t run in the background. If you don’t safe your work obsessively you will lose it.
My point is, I was hoping iOS 26 would improve this behavior. It’s does not. At all.
Way back in this thread I had mentioned that I had trouble with finding the Open With dialog to change the default app for opening files like wavs. @Samu showed me what it looked like for him and lo and behold it worked for me too.
Today I had the same issue and I figured out where the Open With option doesn’t get displayed.
When opening files outside of the default On My iPad location eg Audioshare or an external drive, the option to change default opening actions does not appear. So, I have found that I have to go back to the On My iPad part of the file system to find the Open With option.
Not a biggy, but just wanted to note it here in case anyone else stumbled upon this issue and didn’t know what was happening.
Oh, and by the way, if you feel your iPad is slowing down and getting bogged down when moving files around and doing large processing tasks, then it might be a good idea to clear some space out of the internal storage. Seriously. I had noticed that my processing out of DaVinci Resolve seemed to be taking for ages and transferring largish files around seemed to be taking longer than I would expect.
Clearing 30 odd Gig of internal space has made a huge difference in rendering times for the better. This is on an M2 Pro.
For me it works with external 'drives'(memory cards etc) as well as my 'NAS'(mapped network drive) when I access them via Files.app, but for 'storage providers' (DropBox, GoogleDrive, AudioShare etc.) it won't work.