iOS 26 Available Tomorrow With These 8 New Features

Following 3 months of beta testing, iOS 26 volition beryllium released this Monday, September 15. The update is compatible with the iPhone 11 bid and newer, and it volition beryllium disposable to instal via the Settings app, nether General → Software Update.


Below, we person highlighted 8 caller features included successful iOS 26. Even much caller features and changes are outlined successful Apple's merchandise notes for the update.

Some of the features are lone disposable connected newer iPhone models.

Liquid Glass

iOS 26 introduces an all-new Liquid Glass plan with translucent menus, buttons, and icons.

Apple describes Liquid Glass arsenic "a caller translucent worldly that reflects and refracts its surroundings, bringing greater absorption to content, and delivering a caller level of vitality crossed controls, navigation, app icons, widgets, and more."

Lock Screen Enhancements

On iOS 26, the Lock Screen's timepiece automatically adapts to capable the bare space, and you tin presumption full-screen animated medium art for supported Apple Music songs.

New iMessage Features

Here are immoderate of the cardinal caller features and changes successful the Messages app connected iOS 26:

• Backgrounds: You tin present adhd a inheritance to immoderate conversation, and each participants volition spot it. You tin take from Apple's enactment of backgrounds, oregon you tin acceptable immoderate of your ain photos arsenic a background. You tin crook disconnected speech backgrounds successful the Settings app if desired.


• Polls: You tin present make polls successful radical chats, allowing radical to ballot connected topics oregon questions, specified arsenic which edifice to spell to. Apple Intelligence tin observe erstwhile a canvass mightiness travel successful useful and suggest one.


• Apple Cash successful radical chats: You tin present nonstop and person Apple Cash successful radical chats.


• Typing indicators successful radical chats: You tin present spot who is typing successful radical chats.


• "Add Contact" fastener successful radical chats: This fastener makes it easier to adhd radical to the Contacts app successful radical chats.


• "Select" option: When you pat and clasp connected a connection bubble, a caller "Select" enactment appears. Tapping connected it allows you to prime a information of substance successful a message, whereas you could antecedently lone transcript an full message.


• Unknown sender screening: When turned on, this mounting automatically moves messages from chartless senders to the Unknown Senders folder, and hides notifications for them until you judge them.

Call Screening and Hold Assist

iOS 26 adds a mates of utile features to the Phone app: Call Screening and Hold Assist.

Call Screening is an opt-in mounting that asks chartless callers for their name, and the crushed wherefore they are calling. And with Hold Assist, your iPhone tin automatically hold connected clasp for you during a call, and notify you erstwhile the cause connected the different enactment is ready.

Adaptive Power Mode

iOS 26 introduces an Adaptive Power Mode connected the iPhone, alongside the existing Low Power Mode.

Apple says Adaptive Power Mode tin marque "performance adjustments" erstwhile indispensable to widen an iPhone's artillery life, including somewhat lowering the show brightness, allowing immoderate activities to "take longer," and automatically turning connected Low Power Mode erstwhile the iPhone's remaining artillery beingness reaches the 20% mark.

Adaptive Power Mode is lone disposable connected the iPhone 15 Pro models and newer. The mounting tin beryllium turned connected successful the Settings app, nether Battery → Power Mode.

AutoMix

A caller AutoMix diagnostic successful the Apple Music app tin seamlessly modulation from 1 opus to the next, similar a DJ would. AutoMix replaces the erstwhile Crossfade feature.

Preview App

iOS 26 extends a mentation of the Apple's Preview app from the Mac to the iPhone, providing you with a built-in app to edit and people up PDFs and images.

CarPlay Upgrades

When you are utilizing CarPlay with an iPhone moving iOS 26, the caller Liquid Glass plan extends to the CarPlay interface. Like connected the iPhone, the caller look includes much shimmery app icons and translucent idiosyncratic interface elements.

Starting with iOS 26, you tin respond to messages with modular Tapbacks similar a heart, thumbs up, oregon exclamation marks straight done CarPlay.



You tin present presumption your pinned conversations successful the Messages app connected CarPlay.


CarPlay has a caller compact presumption for incoming telephone calls, truthful that you tin inactive spot different accusation connected the screen, specified arsenic turn-by-turn directions.

CarPlay's Dashboard surface tin present amusement Live Activities, letting you support way of things similar a flight's accomplishment clip astatine a glance.


The regular mentation of CarPlay present has a widgets screen, for things similar calendar appointments and HomeKit accessory controls.


iPhone users volition beryllium capable to wirelessly watercourse videos to the CarPlay screen utilizing AirPlay, according to Apple. For information reasons, video playback volition lone beryllium disposable erstwhile the conveyance is parked, to forestall distracted driving. The connected iPhone volition beryllium capable to observe erstwhile the conveyance is successful question and extremity playback.

Automakers request to adhd enactment for this feature, truthful it mightiness beryllium constricted to newer vehicles and instrumentality immoderate clip to rotation out.

More

Read our iOS 26 roundup linked beneath to larn much astir the update.
This article, "iOS 26 Available Tomorrow With These 8 New Features" archetypal appeared connected MacRumors.com

Discuss this article successful our forums