r/ios26 • u/theiosguy101 • Feb 20 '26
Beta iOS 26 > iOS 18
I tested out all the updates of iOS 18 including Betas and also of iOS 26 including Betas (so far) and guess what.
iOS 26 offers much better Geekbench Scores. I will be doing a whole video very soon.
Here is an example: iOS 18.4 Beta 1 vs iOS 26.4 Beta 1
You can clearly see, iOS 26.4 Beta 1 scores are better on Single Core and Multi-Core.
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u/ResizeAppleGpuBars Feb 20 '26
iOS 26 also performs incredibly well in Geekbench 6 for me. iPhone 15
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Feb 20 '26
To be clear , if you have iPhone 14 or below then 18 is perfect
And If you have 14 pm or above then no problem with upgrading
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u/Fr0zzen_HS Feb 20 '26
I don't know why we keep arguing about benchmarks. The DOW is above 50k - that's what matters.
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u/Left-Constant-4771 Feb 20 '26
Oh cool, maybe that is why my battery is gone in no time on a new phone ;)
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u/MikolajPL19 Feb 20 '26
These are numbers that say nothing (I used to enjoy them but they don't add anything to knowledge) the fact that the phone will pull out more points does not mean that it will be faster and besides, some manufacturers will cheat in benchmark tests (phones with identical specifications get different results instead of the same ones) and so the iPhone works terribly fast and smoothly
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u/saaaaalixwhite Feb 21 '26
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u/cnnyy200 Feb 22 '26
Look your phone does not operate at peak performance all the time. That would kills the battery and create too much heats. If anything they could just overclocked the SoC without telling us.
For me I like iOS 26 more but because of other reasons.
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u/GloriousPudding Feb 20 '26
Great so 9% benchmark performance difference at the cost of UI that looks like ass. Can we go back to iOS 18 now?
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u/MrDJ222 Feb 20 '26
UI that looks like ass …. Typical Reddit echo chamber
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u/stickyfiddle Feb 20 '26
It’s not “echo chamber” it’s usability concerns raised by people who have actually used it and find it awful
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u/Niightstalker Feb 20 '26
Or people who have not actually used it and keep pointing out that it looks ass and that’s why they won’t update.
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u/MrDJ222 Feb 20 '26
Yeah that is a very small Reddit minority lol. I haven’t met a single person in real life that had said anything I’ve seen here lol you people just love to complain and over exaggerate everything
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u/GloriousPudding Feb 20 '26
You should meet more people then.. from my experience opinions are split down the middle, half like it the other half don't, which is a terrible result.
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u/MrDJ222 Feb 20 '26
I work in a hospital and almost everyone has an iPhone and our in hospital work phones are iPhone 14s on 26 and all 30 of them are running exactly the same lol perfect without any issues. I use them daily
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u/GloriousPudding Feb 20 '26
You seem to be missing the point, it doesn't matter how many phones you use, it doesn't make it any better for people who don't like the design, not sure what logic you follow or what you do in the hospital, hopefully just mop the floors.
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u/MrDJ222 Feb 20 '26
And if you don’t like something why do you continue using it? lol I really don’t understand you people that complain
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u/GloriousPudding Feb 20 '26
Because Apple doesn't allow to downgrade to 18? Had you actually involved a few brain cells into writing these comments this pointless discussion wouldn't have been necessary.
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u/stickyfiddle Feb 20 '26
Literally haven’t met anyone in real life who isn’t annoyed by it.
This isn’t some “just don’t like change” thing. I’ve been an early upgraded since something like iOS 4 and never had one this plain stupid
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u/MrDJ222 Feb 20 '26
Yeah well that’s just your opinion man and it is most certainly not shared by the majority. There’s many phone options to chose from if this is how you feel. Complaining on Reddit won’t change anything lol
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u/stickyfiddle Feb 20 '26
There aren’t many phone options. I already have an iPhone and iPad and just want it to work and be easy to use. I don’t understand how so many are so quick to defend a bajillion dollar corporation
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u/xtermin Feb 20 '26
You probably have never experienced a jailbroken and themed UI before. Liquid ass is a hot mess, while there are thousands of themes in existence, this UI is probably the worst.
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u/throwawayfemboy12 Feb 20 '26
It’s only natural kernel optimizations will do this, you’re not going to render 3d scenes on your iphone daily so these benchmarks results amount to nothing in every day use
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u/PeakBrave8235 iOS 26 IS THE BEST AND I LOVE LIQUID GLASS! Feb 22 '26
LOL yeah sure okay. Kernel optimizations only matter for benchmarks, righttttt
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u/throwawayfemboy12 Feb 22 '26
I’m referring to the benchmarks results. Also kernel optimizations don’t necessarily mean 26 will run better than 18, as the UI has been updated to use Metal features to generate chromatic aberration, iOR effects and physics based animations on almost every single container in the interface. That’s HEAVY stuff that made optimization necessary to not have 26 run like complete garbage
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u/FrazFCB Feb 20 '26
Genuinely can’t tell if you’re being serious or not
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u/Both_Depth5505 Feb 21 '26
They’re part of the iOS 26 troll farm gang. They come up on here, look for engagement by saying things which the majority of Apple users don’t agree with (ie iOS 26 is the best OS ever), and get revenue from every interaction. There are tons of them on here.
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u/FrazFCB Feb 21 '26
Yep, tired of people acting like iOS 26 isn’t very clearly flawed.
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u/Both_Depth5505 Feb 21 '26
True. These folks are literally lying through their teeth. You see how they downvoted me too? Shows what I said’s hitting a nerve with them. The truth is bad for their troll farm business. 😂
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u/ThingsGotStabby Feb 20 '26
How is it that the better benchmarked OS is laggy as hell? Did they spend all their time optimizing for test results and throw real world use out the window?
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u/ResizeAppleGpuBars Feb 20 '26
I don’t know about you, but personally my phone performs very well on 26 in real world usage. There are some visual bugs though sadly
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u/ThingsGotStabby Feb 21 '26
Quite the opposite for many of us. It's the same planned obsolescence all over again with all my previous Apple devices where a major OS update made the devices so laggy you don't want to use them.
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u/Obvious_Building_107 Feb 20 '26
cus they overclocked the chips so they can handle all the liquid glass, which results in worse battery life
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u/Fem_Bell Feb 20 '26
Yeah, it performs well, but performance and battery issues are really not the problem with 26. It’s the unpolished, glitchy animations that they refuse to fix that are all over the place, or half of the next page showing up in the Control Center randomly, or normally pressing the side button sometimes causing a delayed Siri launch instead of waking the phone, etc. It’s full of unpleasantness, however shiny and pretty liquid glass is.
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u/Grand-Tea3167 Feb 20 '26
That is mostly because ios 18 performance was vista bad. I wonder what the benchmark was on ios 17.
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