On Monday, Apple released the second developer beta of iPadOS 26.4.

While there were a few small new things, this beta feels more like bug fixes and behind-the-scenes work. It was also a little over 1GB in size on my M1 iPad Pro, which is the smallest beta I can remember in recent memory .

Anywho, here’s what’s been noted to be new:

System Updates

Liquid Glass Edit Menu on Home Screen

The edit button that shows up when you enter jiggle mode on your home screen now has a menu that has a heavier Liquid Glass effect applied to it. Depending on your preferences, this is either a very good thing, or more bad piled on top of the bad (I’m generally a fan).

Reduce Highlighting Effects

There’s a new option in Accessibility > Display & Text Size that purports to disable the highlighting effects, presumably on app icons. So far, I can’t tell any difference, but I may just be less sensitive to this effect.

App Updates

Bug Fixes

• In beta 1, for whatever reason, Safari would lock up my iPad Air that is on the 26.4 public beta. As in, couldn’t open or swipe to another app, I was stuck in Safari. I had to use Siri to restart the iPad. If you were encountering this issue, it seems to be resolved in this newest beta.
  
• I had no idea there was a “What’s new in Display & Text Size… “ link in the Accessibility section of settings. Which means I also didn’t know that, at least on my 11-inch iPad Pro (running 26.3), the text here wasn’t displaying correctly. That seems to be resolved on the new beta, and may have been resolved in the previous beta.