Everything New in iOS 26 Beta 4

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Apple released the 4th beta of iOS 26 today, and the institution has continued making changes to the mode that Liquid Glass looks. There are besides caller features, including the instrumentality of Apple Intelligence Notification Summaries for news. This beta is of peculiar involvement due to the fact that it's apt the beta that nationalist beta testers volition get successful the not excessively distant future.

Liquid Glass Changes

Liquid Glass is much translucent successful beta 4, with Apple walking backmost immoderate of the opacity changes that it introduced successful beta 3.

Beta 4 connected left, beta 3 connected right

Menu bars successful apps similar Photos, Music, and the App Store are present diagnostic much transparency, allowing much of the inheritance colour to amusement through.

Beta 4 connected left, beta 3 connected right

On the Lock Screen, erstwhile you scroll done notifications, the inheritance gets darker. The darker code improves the readability of text.

Beta 4 connected right, beta 3 connected left

Notification Summaries

‌Apple Intelligence‌ Notification Summaries are available for News and Entertainment apps again. Apple removed summaries for quality articles backmost successful January to amended the feature, and present it's acceptable for investigating again.

At the time, Notification Summaries were producing misleading quality headlines by picking up and combining the incorrect accusation successful articles. Apple says the diagnostic should enactment amended now, and that investigating volition proceed passim the ‌iOS 26‌ beta.

After updating to ‌iOS 26‌, you'll spot a popular up for enabling the summary diagnostic for antithetic app categories. You tin take to get quality summaries oregon opt out. All notification summaries for News and Entertainment apps that are generated with ‌‌Apple Intelligence‌‌ volition beryllium italicized and volition beryllium annotated with a "Summarized by ‌‌Apple Intelligence‌‌" notice.

Camera App

When you swipe betwixt modes successful the Camera app, the fastener behaviour has changed slightly. Before, the fastener seemed to beryllium fixed with the inheritance sliding backmost and forth, but present the fastener moves freely successful some directions.

Apple besides changed the icon of the Camera app connected the Home Screen.

Beta 4 camera app icon connected left, beta 3 icon connected right

CarPlay Wallpapers

There are caller CarPlay wallpapers disposable that lucifer the caller ‌iOS 26‌ wallpaper design. The ‌CarPlay‌ wallpapers travel successful a scope of colors, including blue, brown, gray, green, purple, and red. The wallpapers enactment some airy mode and acheronian mode.

Purple (Dark/Light)
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Apple has besides removed immoderate older ‌CarPlay‌ wallpapers that were introduced with earlier versions of iOS.

Passcode Changes

When you pat connected Face ID & Passcode successful the Settings app, there's an updated interface and wording that reminds you to participate the passcode you usage to unlock the iPhone.

Passwords

The Passwords app has an Allow Contacting Websites option, which allows the app to interaction websites to amusement names and icons for apps and websites and to fto you cognize erstwhile a website supports passkeys.

With this feature, Passwords present shows customized icons for websites automatically.

Weather

There's a caller toggle successful the Weather app settings that allows it to entree Significant Locations. With the diagnostic enabled, the Weather app is capable to supply upwind accusation for places that you are apt to visit.

Reduce Loud Sounds

The "Late Night Mode" enactment successful the Sounds and Haptics conception of the Settings app has been renamed to Reduce Loud Sounds, and Apple added a description.

Reduces audio measurement scope and creates softer dependable effects portion maintaining the quiescent details of the archetypal audio.

Call Screening

Apple updated the Screen Unknown Callers enactment to adhd caller options. You tin crook the diagnostic off, inquire chartless callers the crushed wherefore they are calling, oregon soundlessness calls from chartless numbers automatically, sending them to voicemail.