5+ New Features Your iPhone Will Get in iOS 26.1

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Apple is presently beta investigating iOS 26.1, which volition beryllium the archetypal large update to the iOS 26 operating system. It's not going to bring the caller mentation of Siri that we've been waiting for, but it does see utile caller features and interface changes.

We've rounded up each of the features that person been successful iOS 26.1 truthful far.

Alarms and Timers

Alarms and timers that you acceptable up successful the Clock app present person a descent to halt fastener alternatively than a pat to halt fastener connected the Lock Screen. You tin snooze an alarm with a tap, but to crook it disconnected entirely, you request to usage a descent gesture.

The alteration makes it overmuch harder to disregard an alarm erstwhile you're trying to pat connected the snooze button.

New Apple Intelligence Languages

Apple Intelligence is present disposable successful Danish, Dutch, Norwegian, Portuguese (Portugal), Swedish, Turkish, Chinese (Traditional), and Vietnamese.

AirPods Live Translation Languages

AirPods Live Translation works with further languages successful iOS 26.1, including Japanese, Korean, Italian, and Chinese (both Mandarin Traditional and Simplified).

Apple Music

You tin swipe connected the euphony subordinate successful Apple Music to power songs. Just descent a digit implicit wherever the opus rubric is listed, and it'll spell to the adjacent opus oregon backmost to the erstwhile song.

Fitness App

You tin make customized workouts successful the Fitness app connected iPhone. There are options for selecting workout type, estimated Active Calories, effort, duration, and commencement time.

There were workout instauration options before, but they were much structured than the open, customized instauration options that are successful iOS 26.1.

Settings App

Apple changed the alignment of icons and substance successful the Settings app. All settings with headers that diagnostic substance present person that substance aligned to the near alternatively of halfway aligned. It's a tiny alteration that makes a large ocular difference.

This includes General, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, Cellular, Personal Hotspot, Accessibility, and more.

Home Screen Folders

When you pat into a folder connected the Home Screen, the sanction of the folder astatine the apical is near aligned alternatively of halfway aligned, matching the changes made successful the Settings app.

Phone

The Phone keypad present uses Liquid Glass for the numbers.

Photos

The slider for scrubbing done videos successful the Photos app has been updated.

The navigation barroom besides has a somewhat much frosted look that makes it easier to spot connected airy backgrounds.

The interface for managing aggregate photos that you've selected has been tweaked slightly. Play arsenic Slideshow, Favorite, and Hide are present astatine the apical of the menu.

Safari

The Tab Bar (Bottom) successful Safari is wider with little padding astir the edges. In Reduce Transparency mode, there's much padding, truthful it nary longer looks odd.

Background Security Improvements

The Privacy and Security conception of the Settings app present has a toggle to automatically download and instal information improvements. It's a revamp of the anterior Rapid Security Responses feature.

Display Settings

The Display conception of the Settings app present has iOS 26-themed wallpaper alternatively of iOS 18 wallpaper.

Liquid Glass

The airy refraction effect astir apps is present much subtle with darker icon colors and inheritance colors.

Wallpaper

When mounting a wallpaper connected the Lock Screen, instructions similar Pinch to Crop amusement up momentarily and past disappear, alternatively than being shown each the time.

Display Accessibility

Under the Display and Text Size conception successful the Accessibility settings, determination is simply a caller "Display Borders" toggle. It adds a borderline to each buttons, and replaces the anterior "Button Shapes" setting.

Bonus: iPadOS 26.1

Many of the changes supra are successful iPadOS 26.1 too, and iPadOS 26.1 besides makes immoderate changes to multitasking.

Slide Over

With iPadOS 26.1, Apple is reintroducing Slide Over. Slide Over works alongside the window-based iPadOS 26 multitasking functionality, truthful you tin person aggregate windows unfastened and inactive swipe implicit to rapidly entree a Slide Over app.

You tin lone person 1 Slide Over app astatine a clip successful iPadOS 26.1, and you tin usage the diagnostic by tapping connected the greenish model resizing fastener and toggling connected Enter Slide Over.

External Microphones connected iPad

There's present an enactment to set input summation connected the iPad erstwhile utilizing an outer microphone.

Download iOS 26.1

iOS 26.1 is disposable for some developers and nationalist beta testers, truthful if you privation to get your hands connected the caller features now, you can. It's easiest to motion up for nationalist beta investigating by visiting Apple's beta website.