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iPadOS 26.0 Beta 3

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About this appearance

iPadOS 26 Beta 3 (23A5287g) has 5 source-supported milestone deltas plus exact build and channel metadata.

Date
Jul 7, 2025
Availability
available
Revision
No

Release notes

What changed

Original editorial synthesis. Linked references appear with the claims they support and in the source ledger.

Release identity

iPadOS 26 Beta 3 appeared on 2025-07-07. Its primary build is 23A5287g; that build identifier is scoped to iPadOS even when the same alphanumeric value also appeared on another Apple platform.[1]

What changed at this milestone

The adjacent preserved Apple Developer snapshots support 5 milestone-specific items for this seed. These are deltas visible at this point in the prerelease cycle, not a cumulative copy of the eventual public release notes.[2][3][4][5][6]

How to read these notes

Apple’s iOS and iPadOS 26 developer-notes page was updated throughout the beta cycle. This article uses preserved snapshots to isolate what the retained evidence supports at Beta 3; it does not project the final public notes backward or describe an unlisted revision as a bug or security fix.[7][8]

Source ledger

References

Sources are linked to the claims they support. Publication and access dates are shown when available.

  1. iPadOS 26.0 beta 3 (23A5287g)

    Apple Developer · Apple · 2025-07-07T00:00:00.000Z · iPadOS 26.0 Beta 3; build 23A5287g

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  2. iOS & iPadOS 26 Release Notes — beta-3 snapshot

    Apple Developer via Internet Archive · Apple · 2025-07-07T00:00:00.000Z · Foundation Models framework — Resolved Issues; 152681332, 153216183, 153216632

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  3. iOS & iPadOS 26 Release Notes — beta-3 snapshot

    Apple Developer via Internet Archive · Apple · 2025-07-07T00:00:00.000Z · MetalFX — Resolved Issues; 146436460, 146436741

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  4. iOS & iPadOS 26 Release Notes — beta-3 snapshot

    Apple Developer via Internet Archive · Apple · 2025-07-07T00:00:00.000Z · Object Capture — New Features; 145220451

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  5. iOS & iPadOS 26 Release Notes — beta-3 snapshot

    Apple Developer via Internet Archive · Apple · 2025-07-07T00:00:00.000Z · SwiftUI — New Features; 151646790

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  6. iOS & iPadOS 26 Release Notes — beta-3 snapshot

    Apple Developer via Internet Archive · Apple · 2025-07-07T00:00:00.000Z · Wi-Fi Aware — Resolved Issues; 152336071

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  7. iOS & iPadOS 26 Release Notes — beta-3 snapshot

    Apple Developer via Internet Archive · Apple · 2025-07-07T00:00:00.000Z · beta-3 release-note snapshot

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  8. iOS & iPadOS 26 Release Notes

    Apple Developer Documentation · Apple · 2026-07-29 · Living document; historical attribution boundary

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Release changes

Changed in this release

Features, fixes, removals, and regressions first observed in this release record.

other · changed

Beta 3 seed

documentedconfirmed

iPadOS 26 Beta 3 appeared on 2025-07-07 as build 23A5287g.

  1. [1] iPadOS 26.0 beta 3 (23A5287g) · iPadOS 26.0 Beta 3; build 23A5287g

developerApi · changed

NavigationSplitView link indicators

documentedconfirmed

Navigation links in a regular-width NavigationSplitView content column hid chevrons by default and gained an indicator-visibility API.

  1. [1] iOS & iPadOS 26 Release Notes — beta-3 snapshot · SwiftUI — New Features; 151646790

bugFix · fixed

Public Generable types and model reliability

documentedconfirmed

Foundation Models fixed public Generable declarations and several rate-limit and guided-generation reliability problems.

  1. [1] iOS & iPadOS 26 Release Notes — beta-3 snapshot · Foundation Models framework — Resolved Issues; 152681332, 153216183, 153216632

enhancement · introduced

Low-texture Object Capture model

documentedconfirmed

Object Capture added a downloadable reconstruction model that improved photogrammetry quality for low-texture objects.

  1. [1] iOS & iPadOS 26 Release Notes — beta-3 snapshot · Object Capture — New Features; 145220451

bugFix · fixed

Wi‑Fi Aware background-browser connections

documentedconfirmed

Wi‑Fi Aware connection attempts could succeed while the browser process was not running.

  1. [1] iOS & iPadOS 26 Release Notes — beta-3 snapshot · Wi-Fi Aware — Resolved Issues; 152336071