Everything New in iOS 26.2 Beta 1

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Just a time aft launching iOS 26.1, Apple is acceptable to trial the adjacent update, iOS 26.2. iOS 26.2 brings AirPods Live Translation to the EU, introduces changes to Reminders, adds a Lock Screen Liquid Glass slider, and more.

We've rounded up each of the caller iOS 26.2 features that we've recovered truthful far.

Lock Screen

There is simply a Liquid Glass slider connected the Lock Screen that lets you customize the quality of the clock. When utilizing the "Glass" option, you tin usage the slider to marque the clip look astir wholly clear, oregon springiness it a much frosted look.

There continues to beryllium a abstracted Solid toggle that turns disconnected the Liquid Glass quality for the timepiece wholly if you privation to opt for a overmuch much opaque design, and you tin besides inactive usage the colour options for the clock.

Sleep Score

With iOS 26.2 and watchOS 26.2, Apple has adjusted the ranges for the Sleep Score diagnostic that it introduced earlier this year. The caller Sleep Score numbers amended lucifer however radical mightiness beryllium feeling aft a nighttime of sleep.

These are the caller scores:

Very Low - 0-40 (previously 0-29)

Low - 41-60 (previously 30-49)

OK - 61-80 (previously 50-69)

High - 81-95 (previously 70-89)

Very High - 96-100 (previously 90-100)

The "Very High" fertile utilized to beryllium "Excellent," but Apple changed the sanction to beryllium much successful enactment with the different labels.

Sleep Scores are disposable connected each Apple Watch models compatible with watchOS 26.2 and tin beryllium recovered successful the Health app connected the iPhone. Apple designed Sleep Score to supply an wide consciousness of slumber patterns, truthful users tin place habits that mightiness interaction their sleep.

Sleep Score takes into relationship slumber duration, bedtime, and interruptions to delegate a nightly people that represents slumber quality. Duration is worthy 50 points, bedtime is worthy 30, and interruptions (times woken up successful the night) are worthy 20, for a full of 100 imaginable points each night.

Passwords

In the Settings conception of the Passwords app, there's present an enactment to negociate websites wherever passwords are not saved erstwhile signing in.

AirPods Live Translation for EU

iOS 26.2 expands AirPods Live Translation to the European Union. Apple had to hold the diagnostic successful the EU to implicit the engineering enactment needed to comply with the requirements of the Digital Markets Act.

AirPods Live Translation works with the AirPods Pro 3, AirPods Pro 2, and AirPods 4 with ANC. It is disposable successful English, French, German, Portuguese, Spanish, Italian, Chinese (Simplified and Traditional Mandarin), Japanese, and Korean astatine the existent time.

Freeform

The Freeform app present supports Tables.

Reminders

In the Reminders app, there's a caller enactment to person an alarm spell disconnected erstwhile a reminder is due. Setting up an alarm tin beryllium done by toggling connected the "Urgent" enactment erstwhile creating a reminder.

When a Reminder alarm activates, it displays a snooze enactment oregon a descent to halt option. If you snooze it, it volition amusement a countdown connected the Lock Screen that includes an enactment to implicit the reminder oregon reschedule it. Apple distinguishes Reminders alarms from modular alarms with a caller bluish color.

Podcasts

The Podcasts app adds enactment for 3 caller features, including automatically created chapters, options to spot mentions of different podcasts from the transcript and the player, and entree to links mentioned successful a podcast connected the occurrence page.

AirDrop

Though not live, iOS 26.2 includes aggregate references to a caller AirDrop feature. It volition let 2 radical to nonstop a PIN to 1 another, and the peculiar codification volition alteration AirDrop for the adjacent 30 days.

AirDrop is constricted to 10 minutes for radical who are not successful your contacts, truthful this mounting could widen that period.

Weather

There is besides codification suggesting that the Weather app present supports comparative clip for alerts similar "next Friday," oregon "next Tuesday" successful notation to upcoming rainfall oregon upwind conditions.

Apple News

Apple updated the plan of Apple News, adding speedy entree apical buttons for categories similar sports, puzzles, politics, business, and food.

There's besides a dedicated tab for Following, which has been decoupled from the hunt interface.

Flash for Alerts

The Flash for Alerts enactment successful the Accessibility conception of the Settings app present allows users to person the surface flash. Previously, this mounting was constricted to the LED connected the backmost of the ‌iPhone‌.

Users tin swap to the surface flash oregon person some flash astatine the aforesaid clip erstwhile notifications travel in.

Enhanced Safety Alerts

In the Notifications conception of the Settings app, there's an Enhanced Safety Alerts conception for managing earthquake alerts, imminent menace alerts, and activating improved alert delivery, a diagnostic that uses determination to amended the reliability of alerts.

Download iOS 26.2

iOS 26.2 is disposable for developers close now, but a nationalist beta is apt coming aboriginal this week. You tin motion up for nationalist beta investigating by visiting Apple's beta website.