{"id":47084,"date":"2025-08-06T04:17:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T04:17:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/47084\/"},"modified":"2025-08-06T04:17:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T04:17:14","slug":"mail-no-longer-buries-the-select-button-in-ios-26-beta-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/47084\/","title":{"rendered":"Mail no longer buries the &#8216;Select&#8217; button in iOS 26 beta 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t<img width=\"1600\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/apple-logo-liquid-glass-ios-26-light.jpg\" class=\"skip-lazy wp-post-image\" alt=\"Apple logo liquid glass iOS 26 light\"  decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A small but annoying change in iOS 26 beta has been driving Mail app users bananas since June. As of beta 5, however, Apple has reverted that change and avoided making even more people complain.<\/p>\n<p>The issue? iOS 26 beta 1 through 4 required an additional tap before entering select mode to choose multiple emails to mark as read or archive. It doesn\u2019t sound like a big deal when you put it like that, but the feedback was more about a general trend of burying primary controls behind \u201c\u2026\u201d buttons. <\/p>\n<p>As of iOS 26 beta 5, the \u201cSelect\u201d button is right back where it should be at the top of the Mail app\u2019s list view.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"323\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Inbox-9to5Mac.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1012898\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>The \u201c\u2026\u201d button is still there, of course, as it reveals a variety of controls specifically tied to how the Mail app appears. However, it really made no sense to put an actionable control like Select behind a menu that was otherwise dedicated to adjusting the app\u2019s appearance.<\/p>\n<p>Combined with the <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2025\/08\/05\/ios-26-camera-swipe-direction\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">toggle to change the swipe direction for switching modes<\/a> in the Camera app, iOS 26 beta 5 appears to be a nice update for users who have been providing feedback like this since June.<\/p>\n<p>Check out these great accessories<\/p>\n<p class=\"disclaimer-affiliate\">FTC: We use income earning auto affiliate links. <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/about\/#affiliate\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">More.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/46F6sFL\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1012938\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1754437509_161_BMX-Mac-925-banner-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"150\"\/><\/a>\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A small but annoying change in iOS 26 beta has been driving Mail app users bananas since June.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":47085,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[2306,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-47084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mobile","tag-mobile","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47084\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}