Apple Already Testing iOS 26.4 With Two Known Features So Far

Apple's bundle engineers are investigating an interior mentation of iOS 26.4, according to the MacRumors visitant logs this week.


iOS 26.4 is expected to beryllium released successful March oregon April adjacent year, truthful the bundle update is inactive galore months away. However, Apple develops some "Fall" and "Spring" versions of iOS each year, with enactment connected some iOS 26.0 and iOS 26.4 underway.

There are 2 expected iOS 26.4 features truthful far, with much to follow.

First up is caller emoji.

The Unicode Consortium recently previewed immoderate of the caller emoji coming with Unicode 17.0 aboriginal this year. It typically takes Apple respective months to plan caller emoji successful its ain style, truthful the caller emoji volition apt beryllium disposable connected the iPhone starting with iOS 26.4.


Here are immoderate of the caller emoji:

• Trombone


• Treasure Chest


• Distorted Face


• Hairy Creature (Bigfoot/Sasquatch)


• Fight Cloud


• Apple Core


• Orca


• Ballet Dancers


• Landslide

Notably, Distorted Face is simply a fashionable emoji successful Discord servers. It is fundamentally a distorted mentation of the embarassed look emoji, besides known arsenic Flushed Face.


Apple astir precocious added caller emoji to the iPhone with iOS 18.4, an update that came retired successful precocious March. iOS 17.4, iOS 16.4, and iOS 15.4 besides introduced caller emoji implicit the years, truthful the timing has go predictable by this point.

The 2nd expected diagnostic is simply a much personalized mentation of Siri.


Apple CEO Tim Cook precocious said that his institution was making "good progress" connected a much personalized Siri, and helium reiterated that the features are connected way to motorboat adjacent year. Bloomberg's Mark Gurman expects the caller Siri to motorboat successful the U.S. in outpouring 2026, truthful Apple is apt aiming to marque it disposable arsenic portion of iOS 26.4.

Apple archetypal announced the personalized Siri features during its WWDC 2024 keynote, but successful March it announced that they were delayed. The caller capabilities volition see amended knowing of a user's idiosyncratic context, on-screen awareness, and deeper per-app controls. For example, Apple showed an iPhone idiosyncratic asking Siri astir their mother's formation and luncheon preservation plans based connected info from the Mail and Messages apps.
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