iOS 26 Includes These 100 New Features and Changes for Your iPhone

Apple has announced iOS 26, and the upcoming bundle update includes a agelong database of caller features and changes for iPhones.


The archetypal iOS 26 developer beta is now available, and a nationalist beta volition travel adjacent month. The update volition beryllium released aboriginal this year.

iOS 26 is compatible with the iPhone 11 and newer.

Below, we person provided a high-level overview of 100 caller features and changes that are coming with iOS 26, successful nary peculiar order:

1. A caller Liquid Glass plan with shimmery app icons and a translucent interface that reflects and refracts the surrounding colors


2. There is simply a redesigned tab barroom successful apps


3. A caller "Clear" enactment for Home Screen app icons and widgets, alongside the existing "Light" and "Dark" options


4. On the Lock Screen, the timepiece dynamically adapts to capable bare space


5. On the Lock Screen, determination is an enactment to presumption full-screen medium artwork


6. Polls successful radical chats successful the Messages app


7. Add a customized inheritance to immoderate speech successful the Messages app


8. You tin present nonstop and person Apple Cash successful radical chats successful the Messages app


9. Typing indicators are present disposable successful radical chats successful the Messages app


10. There is simply a caller "Add Contact" fastener successful radical chats successful the Messages app


11. A caller "Select" enactment successful the Messages app lets you prime a information of substance wrong a connection bubble


12. Messages app tin surface messages from chartless senders, placing them into an Unknown Senders folder


13. Messages app has gained earthy connection search


14. Hold Assist tin hold connected clasp for you during a telephone call, and notify you erstwhile the unrecorded cause is acceptable for you


15. Call Screening automatically answers chartless callers, and asks for their sanction and the crushed for their call, earlier your iPhone rings


16. Live Translation for calls and texts crossed the Phone, FaceTime, and Messages apps


17. A preinstalled Apple Games app lets you observe games, in-game events, and vie with friends with caller challenges


18. A preinstalled Preview app lets you create, edit, annotate, markup, and export PDFs, positive crop, flip, rotate, and resize images


19. Photos app is present divided into Library and Collections tabs


20. Relevant video thumbnails are present shown successful hunt results successful the Photos app


21. In the Photos app, you tin make 3D spatial versions of photos, which was antecedently lone imaginable utilizing the Apple Vision Pro


22. Camera app has a simpler plan with Video and Photo tabs


23. In the Camera app, you volition person an alert if a camera lens needs to beryllium cleaned, truthful agelong arsenic "Lens Cleaning Hints" is toggled connected successful the Settings app


24. The screenshot editing interface has been somewhat redesigned


25. In the Settings app, you tin present crook disconnected CarPlay screenshots nether General → Screen Capture, truthful that taking a screenshot connected your iPhone does not besides make a CarPlay screenshot portion the instrumentality is connected to CarPlay


26. In the Settings app, tin present crook disconnected iCloud Drive syncing via cellular data


27. Phone app present has an optional all-in-one layout that combines Favorites, Recents, and Voicemails


28. Phone app present supports surface sharing and SharePlay during telephone calls


29. Phone app offers caller Monogram styles for contacts


30. A caller Focus mode lets you soundlessness an idiosyncratic SIM


31. Journal app present lets you make aggregate journals


32. Journal app entries tin present beryllium viewed connected a map


33. Journal app present lets images beryllium added inline with text


34. Passwords app present shows password history


35. Safari present has 3 layouts: Compact, Bottom, and Top


36. Safari present offers precocious fingerprinting extortion for each browsing by default


37. Tips app present offers step-by-step guides for troubleshooting communal iPhone issues


38. You tin present trial AirPods beta firmware straight via the Settings app


39. You tin commencement signaling video successful the Camera app by pressing and holding connected the stem of AirPods 4 oregon AirPods Pro 2


40. AirPods 4 and AirPods Pro 2 present connection studio-quality audio recording


41. AirPods tin present observe erstwhile you autumn dormant and automatically intermission audio


42. You are present notified erstwhile your AirPods are afloat charged


43. You tin beryllium reminded to complaint your AirPods erstwhile their artillery beingness is low


44. AirPods audio tin present automatically power to CarPlay arsenic necessary


45. You tin present acceptable a customized snooze duration of 1 to 15 minutes successful the Clock app


46. Visual Intelligence present works with on-screen content, truthful you tin inquire ChatGPT questions astir what you are looking at


47. Visual Intelligence tin present work aloud and summarize screenshots with text


48. Genmoji tin present harvester 2 modular emoji into 1 customized one


49. Image Playground offers caller ChatGPT representation styles, including Oil Painting, Watercolor, Vector, Anime, and Print


50. In the Shortcuts app, determination is simply a caller acceptable of shortcuts powered by Apple Intelligence


51. Apple Music lets you pin playlists, albums, and artists astatine the apical of the Library tab


52. Apple Music lets you make playlist folders


53. Lyrics translation for Apple Music songs


54. AutoMix for Apple Music tin seamlessly premix from 1 opus to the adjacent similar a DJ


55. Live Activities enactment for boarding passes successful the Apple Wallet app


56. Wallet app present displays applicable accusation beneath the boarding pass, specified arsenic Apple Maps directions to the due airdrome terminal, and a shortcut to the Find My app's baggage tracking feature


57. Create a integer ID successful the Wallet app utilizing your U.S. passport, for property and individuality verification successful supported apps, and astatine prime stores and TSA checkpoints


58. In participating U.S. states, "Verify with Wallet connected the Web" enables you to contiguous your driver's licence oregon authorities ID successful the Wallet app to websites for property and individuality verification, starting with Chime, Turo, Uber Eats, and U.S. Bank, arsenic good arsenic the Arizona MVD, Georgia DDS, and Maryland MVA


59. You tin present negociate AutoFill recognition cards successful the Wallet app


60. When toggled on, a caller Adaptive Power mode tin marque tiny adjustments to widen artillery life, specified arsenic by somewhat lowering show brightness oregon allowing definite inheritance activities to instrumentality longer


61. In the Settings app, you tin spot however agelong it volition instrumentality for your iPhone's artillery to execute a afloat complaint erstwhile the instrumentality is charging


62. The full Battery conception of the Settings app was overhauled


63. A caller "Keep Audio successful Headphones" mounting prevents audio from automatically switching to recently connected devices, similar car speakers oregon Bluetooth speakers, erstwhile you are already listening done AirPods oregon different headphones
    
64. You tin present entree a database of blocked contacts via the Settings app


65. Safety Check is present an enactment erstwhile blocking a contact


66. Apple News+ subscribers successful the U.S. and Canada tin play a caller Emoji Game


67. A caller acceptable of Background Sounds see Babble, Steam, Airplane, Boat, Bus, Train, Rain connected Roof, and Quiet Night


68. The alleged Home barroom astatine the bottommost of the surface is present hidden much often


69. Weather via outer volition let you to person the latest forecast accusation portion extracurricular of Wi-Fi oregon cellular range


70. In the Notes app, notes tin beryllium exported arsenic a Markdown file


71. With Apple Intelligence, the Reminders app tin suggest tasks, market items, and follow-ups based connected emails oregon different substance connected your device


72. Apple Intelligence tin automatically categorize reminders successful the Reminders app


73. You tin present make reminders successful the Reminders app via the Action button


74. Apple Maps tin present larn your commute betwixt location and work, and notify you if determination are immoderate important delays on your emblematic route, and connection alternate routes if available


75. Apple Maps tin intelligently observe and prevention the places that you often sojourn and walk clip in, specified arsenic restaurants oregon stores


76. Apple Maps present lets you take from further types of incidents connected the "Report an Incident" screen


77. You tin usage an iPhone arsenic a wireless microphone for the Apple Music Sing diagnostic connected the Apple TV 4K (3rd generation)


78. In the Apple Podcasts app, determination are present a wider scope of playback velocity options, from 0.5x to 3x


79. In the Apple Podcasts app, an Enhance Dialogue enactment lets you perceive code much intelligibly implicit inheritance sounds


80. In the Apple Wallet app, Apple Intelligence tin present automatically identify, summarize, and show bid tracking details from emails sent from merchants oregon transportation carriers


81. Apple Pay present lets you usage rewards and installments for in-store purchases


82. Custom Plans successful Apple Fitness+ present automatically make a personalized docket based connected users' workout and meditation preferences


83. New accessibility features, specified arsenic Accessibility Reader and Braille Access


84. Personal Voice tin present make a smoother, much natural-sounding replication of your dependable successful little than a minute, utilizing lone 10 recorded phrases


85. Vehicle Motion Cues has gained caller options to further assistance trim question sickness


86. Parents tin present make oregon determination kids into Child Accounts adjacent much easily


87. Parents tin assistance an objection for their kid to download an app with an property standing that exceeds the app contented regularisation they set


88. Enhancements crossed Communication Limits, Communication Safety, and the App Store see parental approvals for interaction requests from kids, and blurring retired delicate contented successful FaceTime calls and photos successful Shared Albums


89. There is simply a caller "Transfer From Android" enactment during eSIM setup


90. Wi-Fi Aware is present supported


91. You tin present sync captive Wi-Fi portal login accusation crossed Apple devices


92. Arabic calculator


93. Multiscript keyboard for Arabic/English


94. You tin present specify spelling portion utilizing the Dictation feature


95. Liquid Glass plan extends to CarPlay erstwhile utilizing an iPhone moving iOS 26


96. CarPlay present tin present amusement Live Activities connected the Dashboard screen


97. CarPlay tin present show widgets for things similar calendar appointments and Home app accessory controls (previously CarPlay Ultra only)


98. CarPlay present has a compact presumption for incoming telephone calls


99. CarPlay present shows pinned conversations successful the Messages app


100. CarPlay present lets you respond to messages with the modular acceptable of Tapbacks successful the Messages app

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