iOS 26.3 and iOS 26.4 Will Add These New Features to Your iPhone

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We are inactive waiting for the iOS 26.3 Release Candidate to travel out, truthful the archetypal iOS 26.4 beta is apt inactive astatine slightest a week oregon 2 away. Following beta testing, iOS 26.4 volition apt beryllium released to the wide nationalist successful March oregon April.

Below, we person recapped known oregon rumored iOS 26.3 and iOS 26.4 features truthful far.

iOS 26.3

iPhone to Android Transfer Tool

iOS 26.3 makes it easier for iPhone users to power to an Android device. A caller instrumentality allows you to spot your iPhone adjacent to an Android instrumentality to wirelessly transportation photos, messages, notes, apps, and more. You tin besides transportation your telephone number.

In the iOS 26.3 beta, the caller instrumentality tin beryllium recovered successful the Settings app, nether General → Transfer oregon Reset ‌iPhone‌ → Transfer to Android. It is disposable worldwide.

Notification Forwarding successful EU

In the EU, iOS 26.3 introduces some a Notification Forwarding feature and AirPods-like proximity pairing for third-party accessories similar earbuds and smartwatches.

Apple was required to marque these changes to comply with the EU's Digital Markets Act.

End-to-End Encrypted RCS Preparations

As of the 2nd iOS 26.3 beta, Apple appears to beryllium laying the groundwork for carriers to beryllium capable to enactment end-to-end encryption for RCS messages.

Starting with iOS 26.3, determination is simply a dedicated conception for Weather wallpapers, with 3 preset options disposable to take from. To entree them, pat and clasp connected the Lock Screen and pat connected the positive motion successful the bottom-right country of the screen.

iOS 26.3 introduces a caller "Limit Precise Location" setting that reduces the determination information disposable to mobile networks to summation idiosyncratic privacy.

iOS 26.1 introduced a Background Security Improvement diagnostic that is designed to supply information updates for Safari, WebKit, and immoderate different strategy items betwixt iOS bundle updates. Apple has been testing the feature with updates specified arsenic "iOS 26.3 (a)" and "iOS 26.3 (b)," but they bash not really incorporate immoderate information fixes.

iOS 26.4

Personalized Siri

Last month, Apple and Google announced that Google Gemini volition help powerfulness a much personalized mentation of Siri coming this year.

The much personalized mentation of Siri is expected to beryllium introduced with iOS 26.4, pursuing a lengthy delay. The caller capabilities volition see amended knowing of a user's idiosyncratic context, on-screen awareness, and deeper per-app controls, but immoderate of this functionality might not beryllium disposable until iOS 27 aboriginal this year.

For example, each the mode backmost astatine WWDC 2024, Apple showed an iPhone idiosyncratic asking Siri astir their mother's formation and luncheon preservation plans based connected info retrieved from the Mail and Messages apps.

Looking ahead, Apple is reportedly planning to motorboat a full-out Siri chatbot connected iOS 27, allowing users to person ChatGPT-like conversations with Siri.

New Emoji

Last year, the Unicode Consortium previewed immoderate of the caller emoji that are expected to beryllium added to the iPhone with iOS 26.4.

Here are 9 of the caller emoji:

Trombone

Treasure Chest

Distorted Face

Hairy Creature (aka Bigfoot oregon Sasquatch)

Fight Cloud

Apple Core

Orca

Ballet Dancers

Landslide

Apple astir precocious added caller emoji to the iPhone with iOS 18.4, an update that came retired successful March past year. iOS 17.4, iOS 16.4, and iOS 15.4 besides introduced caller emoji implicit the years, truthful the timing has go predictable by this point.

Macworld's Filipe Espósito leaked immoderate other imaginable iOS 26.4 features:

If you person recognition paper accusation stored successful Apple's Passwords app, you volition beryllium capable to AutoFill those details successful third-party apps.

You volition beryllium capable to make folders successful the Freeform app.

Apple is seemingly moving connected a caller sports tier for the Apple TV app, but the study did not connection immoderate further details astir this.