Hello all,
The MIDI Maestro has recently had issues connecting with the latest iPhone iOS 26 version. We have been investigating internally, and although the preliminary news we got from the developers was that we couldn’t address it and needed to wait on Apple to fix it, we continued to investigate and have found a stopgap solution.
In basic terms, the MIDI Maestro on version 1.1.9 is not able to communicate with the new iOS 26 version and will require a firmware update to allow users to continue to update firmware, update default modes, and sync custom modes going forward. The obvious issue here is that if the MIDI Maestro cannot currently connect, a new firmware cannot be loaded onto the device using iOS 26 in the first place.
For this reason, we have made a simple desktop app for Mac and Windows that can send the firmware file (which we will provide with steps once it is ready) through BLE to your MIDI Maestro. After updating the firmware, your iOS 26 device should have no issue writing the default modes and then writing custom modes as intended.
We apologize for the time it took us to address this. We wanted to make sure it worked before we announced this change to avoid more issues for our user base. We have been listening, we have been on top of it, and we are not ignoring the problem.
We are in the final stages of internal testing, and we are just a few more steps from a full greenlight to share this with you. Once it is available, we will edit this post with the MIDI Maestro update files and the desktop application files.
Thank you all for your patience as we investigate and solve this issue.