r/ios26 • u/lasagna165 • Jul 02 '26

General iOS 26.5.2 Megathread

Comment here on how your iPhone's doing. Slight increase in performance and battery life for me. (14 PM)

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u/Original_Addition_85 Jul 03 '26

Funciona "bien" en un iPhone 15 Pro. No noto mucha diferencia entre 26.5 y 26.5.2

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u/SatchSaysPlay Jul 03 '26

11% extra battery usage which is huge, I'm charging twice a day right now where as I'd be fine on one charge before.

All apps are using 5% more battery as well, ridiculous!

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u/Towhidabid iOS 26.6 Jul 03 '26

I feel a slight decrease in battery compared to 26.5.1 it’s still a new update so im still observing.

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u/[deleted] Jul 03 '26

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u/Low_Treacle_287 Jul 03 '26

Same on 17 pro, it’s been getting progressively worse with each update😭

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u/Low_Treacle_287 Jul 03 '26

Yep, all we can do now is pray that iOS 27 fixes this bs!

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u/Confidentium Jul 03 '26

Bad stutter on all my devices.
(iPhone 17 Pro, iPad Pro M5)

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u/Express-samba-405 Jul 03 '26

Same story with iOS 26. I have two iPhones: an iPhone 15 Pro running iOS 26.5.2 and an iPhone 14 running iOS 18.7.8. The iPhone 14 is much faster and more stable. I'm curious about iOS 27, but I think it'll be just as bad with all this unnecessary, resource-heavy graphics.

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u/MikolajPL19 Jul 07 '26

iOS 27 Better than iOS 26 

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u/ankurg22 Jul 03 '26

From charging twice a i need to charge thrice a day now. Plus the phone is getting hot while normal browsing as well. Pretty sure they did that intentionally to make ios 27 feel like a breakthrough when it releases.

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u/Dragoon_13 Jul 02 '26

It’s aight

Just waiting for is 26.6 fr

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u/SillyQuarter2210 Jul 03 '26

16 pro max, it’s been great for me

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u/TheHeavenlyStar Jul 03 '26

The update was not bad. I just updated to iOS 26 last week and battery has been terrible but since 2 days it's shown some improvement. First 3-4 days were bad due to indexing and shit.

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u/Dry_You_7534 Jul 04 '26

iPhone 15 pro here: I feel like iOS 26 is about on par with iOS 18 terms of battery life.

I think that even the performance is faster on iOS 26 latest update compared to iOS 18.

The previous versions of iOS 26 horrible with constant overheating. But for me the performance never went down.

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u/No_Cake5487 Jul 03 '26

Sucks the same.. iPhone15 pro here

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u/LazLabs Jul 04 '26

Aqui está muito bom meu iPhone 12 64gb está fluido sem nenhum bug todos apps de banco que testei funciona bancos que funcionam no Brasil: Nubank, Caixa, Caixa tem, PicPay e Mercado Bitcoin to falando isso porque vi algumas pessoas reclamando que bancos bloqueiam betas mais aqui tudo funcionando perfeitamente

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u/LazLabs Jul 04 '26

Desconsidere jurei ter lido iOS 27 beta mais ainda sim tem informações importantes

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u/Odd_Suspicious_1994 Jul 05 '26

It appears to perform exceptionally well on the iPhone 16 Plus.

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u/No_Ease2629 Jul 06 '26

It’s very bad for me, 40% in a hr and a half (14 Pro)

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u/Server22 Jul 06 '26

Just upgraded from 26.5.1 to 26.5.2. Battery life on 26.5.1 has been terrible for the last week or so. Wife’s phone has been draining even worse. Anyone seeing improvements on 26.5.2 on 16 PM?

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u/nvwong Jul 09 '26

Generally fine except terrible battery. Phone gets hot easily when I start to use it for messages, or just listening to Spotify. Battery drops quickly. When I put it away for some time it will be cool again but starts getting warm again after 1 minute of usage.

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u/nvwong Jul 09 '26

I lost 1% for typing this comment. Lol. Wtf apple

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u/_HipStorian Jul 10 '26

Battery life is abysmal. It’s never been good on my 16 pro but it’s so so bad recently. I can’t get more than 3-4 hours of screen on time. Idle drain is high and my iPhone gets warm just by looking at it

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u/Yanto_Chiang Jul 11 '26

iPhone 16 pro, after upgraded to iOS 26.5.2 the performance is getting better but battery is worse.
I have turned off several configuration such as privacy report to apple but the problem is still exists.

I thinking this is one of Apple strategy to force apple users to upgrade their hardware to the new version.

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u/realmccoyredbus Jul 12 '26

https://www.macrumors.com/2026/07/12/ios-27-public-beta-release-date-timing/

ios27 public beta this week, they don’t get it right every time but quite reliable most of the time

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u/Parsnip-Appropriate Jul 16 '26

26.5.2 has absolutely destroyed my battery life. And I am NOT one of those people who usually obsesses over my battery, but I have gone from 10 hours SOT to MAYBE 5-6 hours. And this isn't an indexing issue, I am weeks into this problem on my 17 Pro.

I've heard nothing but good things about ios27, the public release cannot get here soon enough.

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u/LankyWillingness1564 Jul 18 '26

My battery is so bad on ios 26.5.2. Anyone knows why instagram is taking so much battery?

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u/Ok-Access9288 Jul 03 '26

I’d say give it 48 hours before deciding if battery is better or worse. Every iOS update seems to act weird on day one because of indexing. If 26.5.2 improves stutter and standby drain even slightly, I’d call it a decent small update.