iOS 26.2 Will Bring 10+ New Features to Your iPhone

Apple is investigating iOS 26.2, a caller mentation of iOS 26 that’s going to travel retired close astir mid-December. iOS 26.2 is going to bring large changes to iPhone users successful Japan, but determination are besides rather a fewer diagnostic tweaks disposable for everyone. We’ve rounded up each of the caller features your ‌iPhone‌ volition get successful iOS 26.2.

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.

Apple provides a splash surface letting users cognize astir the feature, positive a tiny banner that shows up erstwhile you spell to adhd a caller introduction successful the Reminders app aft updating to iOS 26.2.

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.

Liquid Glass Settings

When utilizing the caller Liquid Glass “Tinted” enactment that reduces transparency, there’s a informing that the Tinted enactment cannot beryllium utilized successful tandem with the Reduce Transparency and Increase Contrast Accessibility settings.


Turning connected Tinted mode is capable to crook disconnected Reduce Transparency and Increase Contrast automatically. In the anterior betas, determination was nary enactment to crook connected Tinted mode without turning disconnected these features manually.

AirDrop

Apple added new AirDrop functionality, providing a mode for 2 radical to stock files temporarily without having to adhd 1 different arsenic contacts.


iOS 26.2 includes an enactment to make a one-time AirDrop code, which tin past beryllium shared with idiosyncratic who is not successful your contacts list. The codification allows record exchanges implicit AirDrop for a 30-day period.

People you person shared a one-time codification with tin beryllium managed by opening up the Settings app, selecting the General section, choosing AirDrop, and tapping connected “Manage Known AirDrop Contacts.”

Apple Music

Apple Music present supports offline lyrics, truthful you tin spot a song’s lyrics erstwhile not connected to Wi-Fi oregon cellular.

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.

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.

Passwords

In the Settings conception of the Passwords app, there’s 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.

Weather

There is 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.

Measure App

Apple’s Measure app present features a Liquid Glass plan for the level, with 2 Liquid Glass bubbles alternatively of achromatic circles.

Games App

There’s present an enactment to benignant games successful the Games app Library by size, successful summation to Name and Recent.


The Games app besides supports navigation with a controller and real-time updates to situation scores during gameplay.

CarPlay

The CarPlay present app supports disabling pinned messages successful the Messages app for drivers who similar the classical Messages presumption that was disposable earlier iOS 26.2.

Menu Animations

For pop-out menus that grow from a country button, there’s a quicker, bouncier animation that looks similar the animation that Apple showed disconnected astatine WWDC.

Privacy

When you entree your Apple Account for the archetypal clip aft installing iOS 26.2, you’ll spot an alert letting you cognize that Apple’s privateness accusation for Apple Accounts has been updated to amended explicate however idiosyncratic accusation is collected and utilized by Apple.

iPhone Changes successful Japan

Siri Replacement

Apple is laying the groundwork for a caller enactment that volition fto ‌iPhone‌ users successful Japan take a antithetic default dependable assistant. A property and clasp motion connected the Side Button lone activates ‌Siri‌ successful the existent mentation of ‌iOS 26‌, but determination are aggregate references to new Side Button behavior successful the beta.

‌iPhone‌ users successful Japan volition beryllium capable to prime a caller voice-based speech app to activate with the Side Button, allowing alternate assistants similar Gemini oregon Alexa to beryllium utilized connected the ‌iPhone‌. Developer documentation confirms that it volition lone beryllium disposable for Japanese Apple Accounts owned by radical surviving successful Japan.

Search Engine Choice

After installing iOS 26.2, ‌iPhone‌ users successful Japan will beryllium prompted to prime a preferred hunt engine. Options see Bing, Google, DuckDuckGo, Yahoo Japan, oregon Ecosia, the aforesaid options disposable globally successful the Safari settings. In astir different countries, Google is the default hunt motor and determination is nary punctual to take a antithetic enactment erstwhile the ‌‌iPhone‌‌ archetypal starts up.


While ‌‌iPhone‌‌ users extracurricular of Japan tin take 1 of the different options, doing truthful requires going into the Safari conception of the Settings app to marque a change.

Third Party App Stores

iOS 26.2 volition let ‌iPhone‌ users successful Japan to install alternate app marketplaces, akin to the European Union.

Texas App Store Changes

With iOS 26.2, Apple is adding tools for developers that volition assistance them comply with the App Store Accountability Act that goes into effect successful Texas successful 2026. Apple users successful Texas volition request to corroborate whether they are 18 years oregon older erstwhile creating an Apple Account, and parents volition request to supply consent for their children’s ‌App Store‌ downloads and in-app transactions.

Apple volition stock idiosyncratic property scope accusation with developers, and developers volition request to instrumentality systems for notifying parents astir important app changes and allowing parents to revoke a child’s entree to an app astatine immoderate time.

Bonus: iPadOS 26.2 Multitasking

In the iPadOS 26.2, Apple is expanding connected the updated multitasking that it introduced successful iPadOS 26.1. There’s present a enactment to resistance and driblet apps from the App Library, Dock, and Spotlight into Slide Over and tiled views, restoring immoderate functionality that was removed successful the iPadOS 18 to iPadOS 26 transition.

Compatibility

iOS 26.2 is disposable connected each iPhones that enactment ‌iOS 26‌.

Release Date

We’re expecting Apple to merchandise iOS 26.2 successful December, sometime betwixt December 9 and December 16.
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