iOS 26: All the New Apple Intelligence Features

With the caller Liquid Glass plan taking the spotlight, Apple didn't walk a ton of clip discussing Apple Intelligence astatine WWDC 2025, nor was determination a notation of the missing Siri features. ‌Apple Intelligence‌ wasn't a focus, but Apple is continuing to physique retired ‌Apple Intelligence‌ successful iOS 26. There are caller features, and updates to immoderate existing features.


We've outlined what's caller with ‌Apple Intelligence‌ below.

Live Translation

Live Translation works successful Messages, FaceTime, and Phone. It car translates some spoken and substance conversations if the radical conversing bash not talk the aforesaid language.


In a Messages speech with someone, pat connected the person's sanction and past toggle connected the Automatically Translate option. From there, you tin prime a connection that you privation to construe your conversations to. Language packs alteration successful size, but they are astir 900MB.


Language options see English (US), English (UK), Chinese (Mandarin, Simplified), French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese (Brazil), and Spanish (Spain). You tin acceptable some the construe to and the construe from languages.

The messages that you nonstop to idiosyncratic volition amusement up successful some your connection and the translated connection connected your iPhone, portion the idiosyncratic connected the different extremity sees the connection lone successful their language. Messages they respond with volition amusement some their connection and the translated language.


Live Translation works likewise successful the Phone and ‌FaceTime‌ apps, and it needs to beryllium turned connected for each speech and connection assets request to beryllium downloaded. In the Phone app, Live Translation uses existent dependable translation with an AI dependable to construe spoken contented rapidly and efficiently, but you tin besides spot a transcript of the conversation.


In ‌FaceTime‌, you'll spot translated captions for speech, truthful you'll perceive what the idiosyncratic is saying successful their ain connection portion besides being capable to work unrecorded captions with a translation.


To usage these features, some participants should person Live Translation, truthful an Apple Intelligence-enabled ‌iPhone‌, iPad, oregon Mac that is moving the 26 bid software. In Messages, though, if you person Live Translation turned connected and you're chatting with idiosyncratic who has an older device, they tin benignant successful their connection and you volition spot the translation. Your responses to them aren't translated to their language.

Onscreen Visual Intelligence

In ‌iOS 26‌, you tin usage Visual Intelligence with contented that's connected your ‌iPhone‌, asking questions astir what you're seeing, looking up products, and more.


‌Visual Intelligence‌ works with screenshots, truthful if you instrumentality a screenshot connected your ‌iPhone‌ and pat into it, you'll spot caller Ask and Image Search buttons. With Ask, you tin inquire ChatGPT a question astir what's successful the screenshot. The representation is sent to ChatGPT, and ChatGPT is capable to supply a response.


Search has 2 features. You tin nonstop a full screenshot to Google oregon different app, oregon you tin usage a Highlight to Search diagnostic to prime thing circumstantial successful the screenshot. Just usage a digit to gully implicit what you privation to look up, and past swipe up to behaviour a search.


You tin hunt Google Images, Etsy, and different apps that instrumentality enactment for the feature.

If there's an lawsuit successful your screenshot, ‌Visual Intelligence‌ volition popular up an "Add to Calendar" enactment and it tin beryllium added straight to the Calendar app. It volition besides automatically suggest identifications for animals, plants, sculptures, landmarks, art, and books.

Wallet Order Tracking

Apple Wallet tin scan your emails to place bid and tracking information, adding it to the Orders conception of the Wallet app. The diagnostic works for each of your purchases, adjacent those not made utilizing Apple Pay.


Automatic bid detection tin beryllium enabled successful the Wallet app settings nether Order Tracking. Once turned on, you tin spot your orders by opening up Wallet, tapping connected the "..." button, and choosing the Orders section.

Tapping into an bid volition supply you with the merchant name, bid number, and tracking number, if available. You tin besides spot the applicable email that the bid accusation came from, and pat it to spell consecutive to the connection successful the Mail app.

Image Playground

Apple softly upgraded Image Playground, and the images that it generates utilizing the built-in Animation, Sketch, and Illustration styles person improved. Faces and eyes look much natural, hairsbreadth is much realistic, and it's wide amended astatine generating a cartoonish representation that looks akin to a person.


The alteration is astir notable with people, but objects, food, and landscapes person improved too. We person a afloat ‌Image Playground‌ usher with much info.

• iOS 26 Brings Major Improvements to Image Playground

ChatGPT Integration

Apple added ChatGPT to ‌Image Playground‌, truthful you tin usage ChatGPT's representation procreation tools alternatively of the built-in options. You'll request a paid ChatGPT relationship for this, due to the fact that it does instrumentality tokens to make images.


‌Image Playground‌ includes suggested plan styles similar anime, lipid painting, vector, print, and h2o color, but there's besides an open-ended "Any Style" option. With Any Style, ChatGPT tin fundamentally bash thing successful immoderate style, including generating realistic images.

As with modular ‌‌Image Playground‌‌ representation generation, you tin marque a text-based petition oregon upload an representation to ChatGPT and inquire it to usage that arsenic the ground for an image. Images that you upload and substance requests tin beryllium combined.

Genmoji

Genmoji has been updated to enactment mixing 2 oregon much emoji unneurotic to make a caller emoji character, positive it is integrated into ‌Image Playground‌.


Emoji tin beryllium combined unneurotic and altered further with text-based descriptions, which provides a amended starting basal for coming up with thing new.

When ‌Genmoji‌ are added to ‌Image Playground‌ creations that see photos of friends oregon family, the ‌Genmoji‌ is utilized to dictate look and emotion, similar happy, sad, laugh, mad, shocked, thinking, thumbs up, and thumbs down.

Reminders

Relevant actions successful an email, website, note, oregon different contented tin beryllium identified and categorized successful the Reminders app. There is simply a ‌Siri‌ Suggestions conception successful the Reminders app. You tin pat the "+" fastener adjacent to a proposition to adhd it to the Reminders app, oregon swipe to delete it.


You volition besides spot Reminder suggestions successful apps similar Mail, wherever you tin pat to adhd a reminder without opening the Reminders app.

Messages Poll Suggestions

The Messages app supports creating polls, which is not an ‌Apple Intelligence‌ feature. But successful radical chats, if determination is thing that's applicable for a poll, the Messages app tin suggest that you adhd one.


There's besides an enactment to acceptable customized backgrounds successful the Messages app. ‌Image Playground‌ integration is included, truthful you tin make Messages backgrounds utilizing Apple's representation procreation tools.

Developer Framework

There's an ‌Apple Intelligence‌ on-device exemplary that's disposable for developers to integrate into their apps. Apple is fundamentally allowing developers to usage the instauration exemplary that runs ‌Apple Intelligence‌ to make caller intelligent, offline experiences for ‌iPhone‌ users.


On-device models volition not person immoderate unreality API costs, making it little costly for developers to adhd AI capabilities to their apps.

Shortcuts

Apple added caller shortcuts that are powered by ‌Apple Intelligence‌, and determination are actions for summarizing substance with Writing Tools, creating images with ‌Image Playground‌, generating text, and more.


Shortcuts users tin adhd ‌Apple Intelligence‌ models to their shortcuts, with options for on-device, ChatGPT, oregon Private Cloud Compute to make responses that pass different actions successful the shortcut.

When creating a Shortcut, determination is an ‌Apple Intelligence‌ conception that allows users to benignant directions into an open-ended prompt. Shortcuts tin bash things similar propulsion successful information from the Weather app, Calendar, and Reminders, creating a regular summary. Or determination could beryllium a shortcut that reads what you've written, checks for spelling and grammar errors, and past provides a abbreviated summary.

Apple Watch Workout Buddy

Workout Buddy is simply a watchOS 26 feature, but it relies connected an Apple Intelligence-capable ‌iPhone‌ that's moving ‌iOS 26‌. Workout Buddy provides information and insights during your workouts, and it does truthful by analyzing information from your existent workout on with your fittingness history.


It looks astatine bosom rate, pace, distance, Activity Rings, idiosyncratic fittingness milestones, and different information. An Apple Intelligence-based text-to-speech exemplary past translates the information into actionable and utile insights. The generative AI dependable was trained utilizing dependable information from Fitness+ trainers, truthful Workout Buddy has the perfect vigor and code for a workout. Some Workout Buddy examples:

• "Way to get retired for your tally this Wednesday morning. You're 18 minutes distant from closing your Exercise ring. So acold this week, you've tally 6 miles. You're going to adhd to that today."


• "Mile four. You picked up the gait and ran that past 1 successful 8 minutes and 28 seconds."


• "Hey, cheque this out. Your full moving region for the twelvemonth conscionable crossed the 200-mile mark! That's a batch of running!"


• "Way to get your workout in! You went 4.3 miles successful conscionable implicit 38 minutes. Your mean gait was 8 minutes and 58 seconds, and your mean bosom complaint was 128. That was your longest tally of the past 28 days. What volition you bash next?"

Workout Buddy is disposable with Outdoor Run, Indoor Run, Outdoor Walk, Indoor Walk, Outdoor Cycle, HIIT, Functional Strength Training, and Traditional Strength Training. It does not enactment with different workout types. Along with an ‌iPhone‌ that supports ‌Apple Intelligence‌, it besides requires Bluetooth headphones that are connected to the Apple Watch, specified arsenic AirPods.

No Siri Features - Yet

After the WWDC 2025 keynote, Apple execs went connected an interrogation spree, and discussed the delayed Apple Intelligence Siri features that were expected to travel successful ‌iOS 18‌.


Software main Craig Federighi and selling main Greg Joswiak confirmed that Apple is readying to release the Siri updates successful 2026. Apple ran into prime issues with the first-generation architecture that it designed for ‌Siri‌, and opted to clasp the functionality until it was capable to modulation the idiosyncratic adjunct to a second-generation architecture. At this point, we're looking astatine outpouring 2026 for the personalized ‌Siri‌ capabilities, and the timeline suggests ‌Siri‌ volition get an update with iOS 26.4 sometime astir April.

As a recap, here's what we're waiting on.

Personal Context

‌Siri‌ volition beryllium capable to support way of your emails, messages, files, photos, and more, learning much astir you to assistance you implicit tasks and support way of what you've been sent.

• Show maine the files Eric sent maine past week.


• Find the email wherever Eric mentioned crystal skating.


• Find the books that Eric recommended to me.


• Where's the look that Eric sent me?


• What's my passport number?

Onscreen Awareness

‌Siri‌ volition beryllium capable to archer what's connected your surface and implicit actions involving immoderate you're looking at. If idiosyncratic texts you an address, for example, you tin archer ‌Siri‌ to adhd it to their interaction card. Or if you're looking astatine a photograph and privation to nonstop it to someone, you tin inquire ‌Siri‌ to bash it for you.

Deeper App Integration

‌Siri‌ volition beryllium capable to bash much successful and crossed apps, performing actions and completing tasks that are conscionable not imaginable with the idiosyncratic adjunct close now. We don't person a afloat representation of what ‌Siri‌ volition beryllium susceptible of, but Apple has provided a fewer examples of what to expect.

• Moving files from 1 app to another.


• Editing a photograph and past sending it to someone.


• Get directions location and stock the ETA with Eric.


• Send the email I drafted to Eric.

New Languages

Later this year, Apple plans to bring ‌Apple Intelligence‌ features to 8 further languages, including Danish, Dutch, Norwegian, Portuguese (Portugal), Swedish, Turkish, Chinese (Traditional), and Vietnamese.

Device Requirements

To usage the caller ‌Apple Intelligence‌ features successful ‌iOS 26‌, you request a instrumentality that supports the functionality. That includes the iPhone 15 Pro, ‌iPhone 15‌ Pro Max, and each iPhone 16 models. All of the iPhone 17 models volition besides enactment ‌Apple Intelligence‌ erstwhile they travel retired this fall.

iPadOS 26 and macOS Tahoe

Many of the ‌Apple Intelligence‌ features successful ‌iOS 26‌ aren't constricted to the ‌iPhone‌, and volition besides beryllium disposable connected Apple Intelligence-compatible Macs and iPads.

Read More

We person a dedicated iOS 26 roundup that goes into item connected each of the caller features that are disposable successful the update.
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