iOS 26.4 beta 2 arrived today for developers, with two app changes that reverse iOS 26 search designs to be more like iOS 18.

Search design has reversed to iOS 18 behavior in some iOS 26.4 apps

Last week when iOS 26.4 beta 1 debuted, it came with some odd design quirks in the App Store app.

The beta revised the design of search in two ways:

  1. The search button was integrated into the tab bar rather than being separated
  2. The search bar was moved to the top of the screen

Both changes were reversals back to the iOS 18 behavior: