I’m not sure how accurate that is, especially when Apple recently put out separate press releases for iOS 26 and iPadOS 26:
I understand that Apple is moving to OS version numbers designated by year in order to make tracking versions easier for consumers, but this indicates that iOS and iPadOS are still going to be two distinct entities, and that makes sense given what other users have recently reported, like how the Wyze app’s Monitoring tab is hosed in iPadOS until a user does a pull-down-refresh, but in iOS it reportedly works as expected without the additional user intervention. As you’ve indicated, the navigation in iOS and iPadOS is different, too, with iPadOS having that header strip, like what’s shown in this post. That’s why I’m saying that I think Wyze’s beta recruitment should specifically target iPad users, because there apparently are very real differences.