So iOS 26 beta 5 is here and a few interesting things worth pointing out.

So the thing that jumped out to me right off the bat is that they finally made the select button in the mail app a dedicated button.

And it's not hidden behind like the three dot menu like it was before.

Yes.

This was particularly annoying to me this week because I've been on vacation, but I've been

keeping an eye on my email and like basically triaging a couple times a day.

So you triage, you want to hit select, you want to have the option to select multiple emails

at the same time, then archive or delete them.

So as soon as I updated to beta 5 on Tuesday, I noticed that dedicated select button right

away. Much appreciated Apple. So I completely agree the button should be there by default, as it is now,

and was on previous versions of the old print system. And in fact, on previous beta is the 26,

if you went to other views that wasn't like the inbox view, it would

actually have a select button there. So like if you went to the unread, you know, you could do those smart inboxes, like the one that just shows you all your unread messages across all your mailboxes. The select button was always there on previous bettas. So I've been kind of assuming in the back of my head that, oh, they're going to actually bring it back to the main view too, because it's a bit odd that they do it on a smart inbox view,

but not the main inbox view.

And sure enough, BataF, going to actually bring it back to the main view too because it's a bit odd that they do it on a smart

inbox view but not the main inbox view and sure enough beta five does bring you a dedicated select

button what was your workaround before beta five or did you not have one the workaround before

beta five wasn't it you just tap the three dots and hit select so you did menu. Okay. Yeah. So I'm going to rock your world with another incredible gesture, just like the Safari swipe. If you do two fingers downwards on the cells, it jumps into selection view. Yeah. Because that's what you, you can use that in any app where you need to select multiple at the same time.

Most apps, yeah.

Most apps, yeah. I mean, it's kind of handy. If you just do a little bit, it selects one and jumps you to edit-ed-ed-ed-ed-ed-dit-view, or you can just do select the whole screen, right, and just go down. So it's definitely a great gesture for them to have in the system.

But of course, you shouldn't be expected to use a two-finger gesture

that isn't exactly the most of the issue. So it's definitely a great gesture for them to have in the system, but of course you shouldn't be expected to use a two-finger gesture

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