Release record

iPadOS 26.1

Full article

Public release

Recorded milestones: 6
Beta cycle: 42d
Average interval: 8d
Public release: Nov 3, 2025

Release notes

Overview

Editorial synthesis with inline references and a source ledger when citations are available.

iPadOS 26.1 added Slide Over as a resizable windowing option and added microphone-gain and file-location controls for local capture. It also offered a more opaque tinted treatment for Liquid Glass.^[1]

Apple Music gained navigation and AirPlay refinements, while Camera access, low-bandwidth FaceTime audio, child-safety defaults, and the Apple Vision Pro app rounded out the documented feature set. Apple separately published a platform-spanning security advisory.^[2]^[1]

Source ledger

References

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

About iPadOS 26 Updates
Apple Support · 2026-07-29 · iPadOS 26.1
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About the security content of iOS 26.1 and iPadOS 26.1
Apple Support · 2026-07-29 · iOS 26.1 and iPadOS 26.1; released November 3, 2025
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Documented & observed

Changes in this version

Source-linked features, fixes, known issues, removals, and community-observed behavior recorded across this version’s appearances and verified builds.

Release changes

Changed in this release

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

developerApi · introduced

SwiftUI Animatable macro back-deployment

documentedconfirmed

The archived notes extend the macro's declared availability to iOS 13, macOS 10.15, tvOS 13, and watchOS 6.

Recorded at Beta 1

[1] Archived iOS & iPadOS 26.1 Beta Release Notes — initial beta state · SwiftUI — New Features; 158895616; raw payload 20250927080956

knownIssue · knownIssue

Portuguese Siri News fallback known issue

documentedconfirmed

Apple's Beta 1 notes warn that Portuguese News questions might be routed away from the intended Siri result.

Recorded at Beta 1

[1] Archived iOS & iPadOS 26.1 Beta Release Notes — initial beta state · Siri — Known Issues; 153935878; raw payload 20250927080956

knownIssue · knownIssue

Portuguese Siri voice-preview mismatch

documentedconfirmed

The archived state identifies a pt-BR preview fallback and suggests selecting Voice 2 and asking Siri a question to hear the pt-PT voice.

Recorded at Beta 1

[1] Archived iOS & iPadOS 26.1 Beta Release Notes — initial beta state · Siri — Known Issues; 155929981; raw payload 20250927080956

knownIssue · knownIssue

Initial pt-PT Siri pronunciation issues

documentedconfirmed

The initial beta state asks for feedback on pronunciation and stress problems in the first pt-PT voice set.

Recorded at Beta 1

[1] Archived iOS & iPadOS 26.1 Beta Release Notes — initial beta state · Siri — Known Issues; 160205691; raw payload 20250927080956

knownIssue · knownIssue

Keyboard diacritical selection known issue

documentedconfirmed

The Beta 1 archive warns that the character-variant chooser could discard the selected variant and enter its unmodified base character.

Recorded at Beta 1

[1] Archived iOS & iPadOS 26.1 Beta Release Notes — initial beta state · Keyboard — Known Issues; 159398021; raw payload 20250927080956

enhancement · changed

Unified blood-pressure authorization control

documentedconfirmed

The archived state describes one blood-pressure switch in authorization UI and tells applications to continue requesting both underlying data types.

Recorded at Beta 1

[1] Archived iOS & iPadOS 26.1 Beta Release Notes — initial beta state · HealthKit — New Features; 153579893; raw payload 20250927080956

knownIssue · knownIssue

Nearby Interaction DLTDOA session known issue

documentedconfirmed

The initial state flags an error when NISession runs with an NIDLTDOAConfiguration.

Recorded at Beta 1

[1] Archived iOS & iPadOS 26.1 Beta Release Notes — initial beta state · NearbyInteraction — Known Issues; 151352056; raw payload 20250927080956

bugFix · fixed

Game controller press timestamp correction

documentedconfirmed

Apple's initial beta notes mark the incorrect time domain returned by the pressed-state timestamp as resolved.

Recorded at Beta 1

[1] Archived iOS & iPadOS 26.1 Beta Release Notes — initial beta state · Game Controller — Resolved Issues; 159124910; raw payload 20250927080956

knownIssue · knownIssue

SwiftUI FocusState safe-area-bar known issue

documentedconfirmed

The archived Beta 1 state limits this focus-management issue to the shared iOS and iPadOS safe-area-bar context.

Recorded at Beta 1

[1] Archived iOS & iPadOS 26.1 Beta Release Notes — initial beta state · SwiftUI — Known Issues; 158720838; raw payload 20250927080956

developerApi · changed

UIDocument actor annotation correction

documentedconfirmed

Apple's initial note state says the prior main-actor-only annotation was incorrect and warns that the correction can expose warnings or errors.

Recorded at Beta 1

[1] Archived iOS & iPadOS 26.1 Beta Release Notes — initial beta state · UIKit — Resolved Issues; 149990945; raw payload 20250927080956

bugFix · fixed

Background Assets local URL lookup fix

documentedconfirmed

The initial archived note state records a fix for AssetPackManager URL lookup when the requested asset file is already stored locally.

Recorded at Beta 1

[1] Archived iOS & iPadOS 26.1 Beta Release Notes — initial beta state · Background Assets — Resolved Issues; 157959878 and FB19512759; raw payload 20250927080956

bugFix · fixed

Blood-pressure correlation validation fix

documentedconfirmed

The initial note state records corrected validation for blood-pressure correlation objects and their paired quantity samples.

Recorded at Beta 1

[1] Archived iOS & iPadOS 26.1 Beta Release Notes — initial beta state · HealthKit — Resolved Issues; 151889745; raw payload 20250927080956

bugFix · fixed

SwiftUI toolbar button symbol fix

documentedconfirmed

Apple marks the unintended text rendering of implicitly labeled toolbar buttons as resolved.

Recorded at Beta 1

[1] Archived iOS & iPadOS 26.1 Beta Release Notes — initial beta state · SwiftUI — Resolved Issues; 157671221; raw payload 20250927080956

developerApi · introduced

Additional Nearby Interaction UWB parameters

documentedconfirmed

The archived developer notes add more UWB configuration options to NINearbyAccessoryConfiguration and identify hopping mode as an example.

Recorded at Beta 1

[1] Archived iOS & iPadOS 26.1 Beta Release Notes — initial beta state · NearbyInteraction — New Features; 157879907; raw payload 20250927080956

bugFix · fixed

SwiftUI navigation indicator crash fix

documentedconfirmed

The initial notes require recompilation against the 26.1 SDK to receive the navigation-indicator compatibility fix.

Recorded at Beta 1

[1] Archived iOS & iPadOS 26.1 Beta Release Notes — initial beta state · SwiftUI — Resolved Issues; 158236264 and FB19613386; raw payload 20250927080956

bugFix · fixed

Lock Screen app sleep issue resolved

documentedconfirmed

The Beta 4 snapshot moves unexpected sleep in Calculator, Timer, and Notes from Known Issues to Resolved Issues and removes the wake-and-relaunch workaround.

Recorded at Beta 4

[1] Archived iOS & iPadOS 26.1 Beta 3 Release Notes — Beta 4 baseline · Lock Screen — Known Issues; 162150524; raw payload 20251020181850
[2] Archived iOS & iPadOS 26.1 Beta 4 Release Notes · Lock Screen — Resolved Issues; 162150524; raw payload 20251023065106

knownIssue · knownIssue

WebKit navigation-cancel stack trace known issue

documentedconfirmed

The Beta 4 state adds guidance that the stderr trace produced after a cancelled navigation policy can be ignored.

Recorded at Beta 4

[1] Archived iOS & iPadOS 26.1 Beta 4 Release Notes · WebKit — Known Issues; 156957269; raw payload 20251023065106
[2] Archived iOS & iPadOS 26.1 Beta 3 Release Notes — Beta 4 baseline · WebKit section absent from the preceding item inventory; raw payload 20251020181850

bugFix · fixed

AirDrop share-sheet icon defect resolved

documentedconfirmed

The RC snapshot reclassifies the AirDrop icon's corner rendering defects as fixed.

Recorded at RC

[1] Archived iOS & iPadOS 26.1 Beta 4 Release Notes · AirDrop — Known Issues; 158979986; raw payload 20251023065106
[2] Archived iOS & iPadOS 26.1 RC Release Notes · AirDrop — Resolved Issues; 158979986; raw payload 20251031011033

bugFix · fixed

Keyboard diacritical selection issue resolved

documentedconfirmed

The RC state marks the prior failure to insert selected diacritical marks and character variants as fixed.

Recorded at RC

[1] Archived iOS & iPadOS 26.1 Beta 4 Release Notes · Keyboard — Known Issues; 159398021; raw payload 20251023065106
[2] Archived iOS & iPadOS 26.1 RC Release Notes · Keyboard — Resolved Issues; 159398021; raw payload 20251031011033

enhancement · changed

Camera, FaceTime, safety, and Vision Pro app updates

documentedconfirmed

The release added a Lock Screen camera-gesture setting, improved low-bandwidth FaceTime audio, enabled documented child-safety defaults, and brought Apple’s Vision Pro app to iPad.

Recorded at Public

[1] About iPadOS 26 Updates · iPadOS 26.1

feature · introduced

Resizable Slide Over windowing

documentedconfirmed

Slide Over became a resizable, always-available window that could be moved offscreen when it was not needed.

Recorded at Public

[1] About iPadOS 26 Updates · iPadOS 26.1

enhancement · changed

Tinted Liquid Glass appearance

documentedconfirmed

A new setting let users choose a higher-opacity tinted Liquid Glass treatment instead of the default clear appearance.

Recorded at Public

[1] About iPadOS 26 Updates · iPadOS 26.1

enhancement · changed

Local capture gain and file-location controls

documentedconfirmed

Local capture added gain control for external USB microphones and let users choose where captured files were saved.

Recorded at Public

[1] About iPadOS 26 Updates · iPadOS 26.1

enhancement · changed

Apple Music navigation and AutoMix over AirPlay

documentedconfirmed

Apple Music added MiniPlayer swipe navigation between tracks and extended AutoMix playback to AirPlay.

Recorded at Public

[1] About iPadOS 26 Updates · iPadOS 26.1

security · fixed

iOS and iPadOS 26.1 security hardening

documentedconfirmed

Apple documented a broad security set covering privacy, sandbox boundaries, protected data, locked-device exposure, media handling, system services, and WebKit.

Recorded at Public

[1] About the security content of iOS 26.1 and iPadOS 26.1 · iOS 26.1 and iPadOS 26.1; released November 3, 2025

Milestones

Release history

Every recorded channel appearance in chronological order. Open an appearance for any available build, scope, notes, and sources.

Sep 22, 2025
Developer beta
Beta 1
Full articleEditorially verified
The first retained Apple DocC state after iPadOS 26.1 Beta 1 and before Beta 2 contains 15 substantive, itemized developer-note entries.
Availability
available
Sources
17 linked
Open this appearance
Oct 6, 2025+14 days
Developer beta
Beta 2
Timeline onlyLegacy record
Availability
available
Sources
Awaiting claim-level sources
Open this appearance
Oct 13, 2025+7 days
Developer beta
Beta 3
Timeline onlyLegacy record
Availability
available
Sources
Awaiting claim-level sources
Open this appearance
Oct 20, 2025+7 days
Developer beta
Beta 4
Full articleEditorially verified
A sequential comparison of preserved Apple DocC states supports 2 substantive iPadOS 26.1 Beta 4 deltas without importing later cumulative notes.
Availability
available
Sources
7 linked
Open this appearance
Oct 28, 2025+8 days
Release candidate
RC
Full articleEditorially verified
A sequential comparison of preserved Apple DocC states supports 2 substantive iPadOS 26.1 RC deltas without importing later cumulative notes.
Availability
available
Sources
7 linked
Open this appearance
Nov 3, 2025+6 days
Public release
Public
Source-linked recordEditorially verified
The public iPadOS 26.1 release added Slide Over, expanded local capture, added appearance and media controls, and shipped platform security repairs.
Availability
available
Sources
2 linked
Open this appearance

Historical context

Cycle comparison

Pace, intervals, and duration compared with earlier releases on the same platform.

Historical avg for .1 releases

49 days, 6.2 milestones

Based on 6 previous iPadOS .1 releases

Cycle vs. platform average

42d (avg: 50d)

8 days shorter than the iPadOS average

Duration ranking

#24 of 46

Middle of the pack iPadOS beta cycles

Longest gap in this cycle

14 days

Between Beta 1 and Beta 2

Previous .1 releases (iPadOS)

Previous comparable iPadOS releases
Version	Year	Cycle	Milestones	Avg. Interval
iPadOS 18.1	2024	91d	9	11d
iPadOS 17.1	2023	28d	6	6d
iPadOS 16.1	2022	62d	8	9d
iPadOS 15.1	2021	34d	7	6d
iPadOS 14.1	2020	—	2	7d
iPadOS 13.1	2019	28d	5	7d

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Official release notes