iOS 26.2 Coming Soon With These 8 New Features on Your iPhone

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Apple seeded the second iOS 26.2 Release Candidate to developers earlier this week, meaning the update volition beryllium released to the wide nationalist precise soon.

Apple confirmed iOS 26.2 would beryllium released successful December, but it did not supply a circumstantial date. We expect the update to beryllium released by aboriginal adjacent week.

iOS 26.2 includes a fistful of caller features and changes connected the iPhone, specified arsenic a caller Liquid Glass slider for the Lock Screen's clock, offline lyrics successful Apple Music, and more. Below, we person highlighted 8 caller features successful particular.

Liquid Glass Slider connected Lock Screen

A new slider successful the Lock Screen customization menu lets you set the opacity of Liquid Glass for the clock, allowing you to determine however wide oregon frosted it appears.

This comes aft iOS 26.1 added "Clear" and "Tinted" options for Liquid Glass overall.

Offline Lyrics successful Apple Music

iOS 26.2 adds offline lyric enactment to Apple Music, allowing you to presumption a song's lyrics adjacent erstwhile you are not connected to a Wi-Fi oregon cellular network.

Sleep Score Revisions

iOS 26.2 and watchOS 26.2 person revised Sleep Score ranges:

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)

Apple says slumber scores are calculated based connected however agelong you slept, the consistency of erstwhile you fell asleep, and the frequence and duration of waking up during the night. The diagnostic is disposable successful the Health app connected each iPhone models compatible with iOS 26, and successful the Sleep app connected each Apple Watch models compatible with watchOS 26.

Alarms for Reminders

iOS 26.2 lets you set alarms for reminders successful Apple's Reminders app.

When adding a reminder, selecting a clip and past toggling connected the "Urgent" enactment volition origin an alarm to spell disconnected astatine the designated time.

Apple Podcasts Enhancements

Apple's Podcasts app has three caller features connected iOS 26.2, including automatic chapters for episodes, timed links connected the screen, and the quality to presumption different podcasts that a podcast mentions close from the audio subordinate and the transcript.

Apple News Revamp

In the Apple News app, determination is present a dedicated "Following" tab, and buttons for speedy entree to topics similar sports, puzzles, politics, business, and food.

iPhone Screen Flash for Notifications

Starting with iOS 26.2, your iPhone's surface tin flash erstwhile you person a notification. Previously, this mounting was constricted to the LED camera flash connected the backmost of the iPhone.

In the Settings app, nether Accessibility → Audio & Visual → Flash for Alerts, determination are present options for LED Flash, Screen, and Both. Or, you tin support the mounting turned off.

AirPods Live Translation successful EU

iOS 26.2 makes Live Translation connected AirPods available successful the EU.

Live Translation allows you to recognize idiosyncratic who is speaking a antithetic connection than you. For example, if you talk English, and idiosyncratic is speaking to you successful French, Siri tin archer you what they are saying successful English done your AirPods.

The diagnostic works champion erstwhile some participants successful a speech are utilizing Live Translation connected AirPods. If you are talking with idiosyncratic who is not wearing AirPods, you tin show a unrecorded transcription successful the different person's connection connected your iPhone.

Live Translation is disposable connected the AirPods Pro 3, AirPods Pro 2, and higher-end AirPods 4 with Active Noise Cancellation. The diagnostic launched successful the U.S. and prime different countries with iOS 26, but it was not disposable successful the EU until iOS 26.2, arsenic Apple said it needed further clip to guarantee compliance with the EU's Digital Markets Act.

iOS 26: Use Live Translation With AirPods

In summation to compatible AirPods, users request an iPhone 15 Pro oregon newer with Apple Intelligence turned connected and Apple's Translate app installed.

As of iOS 26.1, Live Translation connected AirPods supports the pursuing languages: