Why is Select in Apple Mail hidden in a menu on iPad but not iPhone in iOS 26.2

On iOS the Select button is large with a menu next to it. I hate inefficiency! Why should something I use every day be hidden under a menu on the iPad where there is ample space, but not on the iPhone where there is not! iPad O 26.2 and the select is hidden under the menu Here is the menu with select at the bottom. I hate having an extra step and it is even weirder that the device with more screen real estate is the one that hides Select making it the 2 presses versus one the iPhone. Not only should this be consistent between devices, but it makes no sense. Please Apple Fix This!

iOS and iPad OS 26 have the worst battery life ever

And I can definitely say just how bad it is because my iPad Pro M2 was replaced after screen issues 3 months ago so it has a basically brand new battery, and I had my battery replaced in my iPhone 14 Pro not a month ago (and they exploded my phone so I have a replacement). After upgrading to version 26 I thought it was bad at first, but I have literally such worse battery life than I did with my phone which was down to 80% efficiency on the battery! Without walking and using the GPS my phone is down to 30 percent by 3:47 PM! And this happens every day! And my iPad Pro with almost no use is down to 70 when with the old battery would have been at 96%.. And I am sure half of it is from the awful transparency that makes everything look illegible, and constantly glitches and takes a while to redraw as most things show up transparent. And hopefully 26.1 which will allow you to limit transparency will bring some efficiency back, but likely this is mostly bad coding! My pet peace’s in an OS are making things less efficient (more steps to do the same things),, less legible (say with transparency, and running slower with each OS release! And these OS’s do all of these in spades!

Instagram for ipad is finally out (after 15 years) but defaults to Reels so is more Tik Tok than insta

So instagram has released a full iPad app, but it default home is Reels, so it is trying to be Tik Tok, not instagram. Soto get to the old home, you have to hit the button below home to get to that. Now you can re-order that tab to get the default content you want to see, but you still have to switch off reels ever time you open instagram, which is beyond frustrating. If you as annoyed with this as me, consider leaving a low rating on the app, to get Facebook to change this.

PVC on LumaFusion v5.2 doubles video/audio track support

https://www.provideocoalition.com/lumafusion-v5-2-doubles-video-audio-track-support/ Awesome, great news. LumaFusion is a real editor for iPad that works with a timeline like Premiere or Avid and not Final Cut. And it gets better all the time. Still it also makes me wish that BlackMagic would just release all the DaVinci Resolve pages on the iPad app, instead of having to use keyboard shortcuts to launch them, because then the iPad would have a real editor.

PVC on Maxon releasing Zbrush for iPad

https://www.provideocoalition.com/maxon-releases-zbrush-for-ipad-offers-a-free-plan/ This is great news as Zbrush is the best 3D sculpting program, and having it on the iPad is such a great idea! Using a pen and on the go or on the couch!

Any One Else get locked out of their Apple Accounts yesterday or today?

Was watching a movie on my apple tv yesterday, when I git kicked out of my Apple account, on all of my devices. My Apple TV, iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, Mac, and it fought me on entering my correct passwords, then said my account was locked, and I had to change my password, then re-enter it on each device (ever try and enter a long password on an Apple Watch? My account is an old .Mac account, but my password is only 6 months old. I was glad to see I am not the only one having this issue, check out Macrumors, Forbes, Gizchina, and Engadget,