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We've rounded up everything we've recovered that's caller successful the archetypal beta of iOS 26.4. The beta is constricted to developers close now, but Apple should merchandise a nationalist beta successful the adjacent mates of weeks. iOS 26.4 is expected to motorboat this spring.
Playlist Playground
Apple Music has a caller Playlist Playground diagnostic that lets users make a playlist with a text-based prompt.
In the Apple Music app, there's an enactment to benignant successful an thought and get automatic opus suggestions for a playlist. Apple has immoderate pre-set suggestions that see "morning java music," "hip-hop enactment songs," and "disco songs that defined the 1970s," but you tin benignant successful immoderate idea, mood, oregon feeling.
From there, the Playlist Playground diagnostic volition automatically make a database of 25 songs, on with a customized title. Playlists that you make tin beryllium customized further with further substance prompts, and you tin prime a screen and a description.
Apple Music
Apple Music features a "Concerts Near You" diagnostic that helps you find shows successful your country and circuit dates for artists that you're a instrumentality of.
Apple has redesigned albums and playlists, adding full-page artwork.
Apple Podcasts
With iOS 26.4, Apple is adding video podcast capabilities to the Apple Podcasts app. The diagnostic uses HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) to supply podcast creators with "unprecedented power and monetization opportunities" portion besides providing a high-quality viewing experience.
The iOS 26.4 Podcasts app volition fto users power betwixt watching and listening to shows, with videos capable to beryllium downloaded for offline viewing. HLS ensures creaseless playback careless of web connection, truthful videos volition enactment connected Wi-Fi oregon cellular. Apple says that the caller video episodes volition integrate with existing Apple Podcasts features, including personalized recommendations and editorial suggestions successful the New and Category sections.
Stolen Device Protection
Stolen Device Protection is now enabled by default for each iPhone users, alternatively than being an opt-in feature.
Apple implemented Stolen Device Protection backmost successful 2023 aft reports astir a caller iPhone theft method. Thieves would spy connected an intended unfortunate to larn their passcode, past bargain the target's iPhone. With the passcode, criminals were capable to bare slope accounts, entree passwords, and crook disconnected Find My.
Stolen Device Protection requires further authentication done Face ID oregon Touch ID to entree definite iPhone features similar the Passwords app, Lost mode successful Find My, Safari purchases, and more. Some features are disabled wholly without authentication, portion others person a one-hour information delay.
End-to-End RCS Encryption for Messages
With iOS 26.4, iPadOS 26.4, and macOS Tahoe 26.4, Apple is investigating end-to-end encryption (E2EE) for RCS messages, a information diagnostic that is not presently disposable for cross-platform messaging.
Apple has been moving with the GSM Association to instrumentality E2EE for RCS messages. iMessage, the messaging protocol for sending texts betwixt iPhones, has agelong supported end-to-end encryption. RCS messages betwixt Android devices person besides featured E2EE, but determination was nary afloat encryption for Android to iPhone (or vice versa) communications. With the summation of E2EE for RCS, messages betwixt iPhone users and Android users volition yet beryllium conscionable arsenic unafraid arsenic iMessage.
Messages sent by RCS that person end-to-end encryption volition diagnostic a fastener icon successful the speech interface. As of close now, Apple is investigating iPhone-to-iPhone RCS encryption, with the diagnostic acceptable to rotation retired for iPhone and Android conversations successful a aboriginal iOS 26 update.
Messages that diagnostic E2EE volition diagnostic a fastener icon successful the speech UI, some for iMessages and RCS Messages.
Messages App
There are caller animations successful the Messages app for actions similar launching a caller conversation.
Apple Account Unified Design
In the App Store, Apple Music, and different apps that person idiosyncratic settings, determination is simply a caller unified Apple Account hub that replaces the existing illustration feature.
It offers mostly the aforesaid functionality arsenic the anterior illustration settings for each app, but determination is simply a caller unified design.
The App Store merges apps and acquisition history, and has a dedicated conception for app updates. It present takes 2 taps to get to app updates alternatively than having them disposable astatine the bottommost of the illustration page.
The App Store's navigation barroom besides nary longer features Search arsenic a abstracted button, and the hunt barroom itself is astatine the apical erstwhile tapped alternatively than the bottom.
Ambient Music Widget
There is simply a caller Ambient Music widget for the Home and Lock Screen. It supports playing antithetic built-in ambient euphony options for sleep, productivity, wellbeing, and more.
Wallpaper and Watch Face Gallery
The Wallpaper Gallery has an updated plan that allows Wallpapers from each class similar Weather, Astronomy, Emoji, Colors and More to beryllium downloaded to the iPhone.
The Watch Face Gallery successful the Apple Watch app besides features the aforesaid plan change.
Freeform Creator Studio
Freeform Creator Studio is unrecorded successful iOS 26.4, allowing Creator Studio subscribers to entree caller Freeform features. Creator Studio for Freeform adds a dedicated Content Hub that houses the Freeform signifier options.
Creator Studio users volition beryllium capable to entree free, high-quality contented similar graphics, photos, and illustrations that are not disposable to non-subscribers, positive determination are AI capabilities for creating and editing images.
When Creator Studio launched, Apple said the premium contented and features successful Freeform would beryllium coming to the Apple Creator Studio subscription aboriginal this year.
Freeform besides has a caller icon.
Reminders
The Reminders app has a caller "Urgent" section. Reminders that person Urgent toggled connected during instauration volition amusement up here. Urgent ensures that reminders person an accompanying alarm truthful you get a wide informing erstwhile a reminder is due.
iCloud Web Settings
In the iCloud conception of the Settings app, there's present an "iCloud.com" enactment if you scroll each the mode to the bottommost of the interface. It replaces the elemental "Access iCloud Data connected the Web" toggle that was antecedently available.
The mounting includes a caller "Allow Search" toggle that lets trusted Apple devices supply hunt results to iCloud.com.
New Emoji
There aren't caller emoji successful iOS 26.4, but codification suggests that caller characters volition beryllium introduced successful a aboriginal beta. There are references to caller emoji, and we are expecting respective caller emoji options.
Emoji characters that are coming see trombone, treasure chest, distorted face, hairy carnal (aka Bigfoot oregon Sasquatch), combat cloud, pome core, orca, landslide, and ballet dancers.
Notification Forwarding for Third-Party Devices (EU)
In the iOS 26.3 beta, Apple tested a caller "Notification Forwarding" mounting that allows incoming notifications connected an iPhone to beryllium forwarded to a third-party wearable instrumentality similar an Android smartwatch, but it was not included successful the motorboat mentation of the software. It is backmost successful the iOS 26.4 beta.
Notifications tin lone beryllium forwarded to a azygous instrumentality astatine a time, truthful if Notification Forwarding is enabled with a third-party wearable, the Apple Watch won't beryllium capable to person and show notifications.
Apple is adding notification forwarding to code antitrust complaints suggesting that third-party wearables should person the aforesaid entree to notifications and different features arsenic the Apple Watch. It is constricted to the European Union.
Proximity Pairing - EU Only
In the iOS 26.3 beta, Apple besides tested different Europe-only changes for third-party wearables, which were shared by the European Commission, specified arsenic Proximity Pairing.
Proximity pairing allows third-party devices to brace with an iOS instrumentality successful an AirPods-like one-tap mode by bringing an accessory adjacent to an iPhone oregon an iPad. Proximity Pairing was not enabled successful iOS 26.3, and it excessively whitethorn travel successful iOS 26.4.
This article, "Everything New successful iOS 26.4 Beta 1" archetypal appeared connected MacRumors.com
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