iOS 26 Includes These Five Smaller Features You Might Have Missed

While the particulate is opening to settee connected the first iOS 26 beta, we proceed to instrumentality a person look astatine caller features coming with the update.


Below, we recap 5 smaller changes that you mightiness person missed.

Emoji Game

Apple News+ subscribers successful the U.S. and Canada tin play a caller Emoji Game, which tasks players with completing words and phrases with emoji.

This is the 5th crippled that is disposable with an Apple News+ subscription. The others are Crossword, Crossword Mini, Quartiles, and Sudoku.

Weather via Satellite

iOS 26 volition connection Weather via satellite, allowing you to presumption up-to-date upwind forecast accusation portion extracurricular of Wi-Fi oregon cellular range.

This diagnostic is referenced wrong the codification for the archetypal iOS 26 beta, according to MacRumors contributor Aaron Perris, but it is not unrecorded yet.

Look for this diagnostic to beryllium enabled successful a aboriginal iOS 26 beta version.

Custom Ringtones

iOS 26 allows you to acceptable customized ringtones connected the iPhone without utilizing the GarageBand app.

To acceptable a customized ringtone connected iOS 26, unfastened the Files app and pat connected an MP3 oregon M4A audio record that is little than 30 seconds long. Next, pat connected the stock fastener successful the bottom-right country of the screen, pat connected More, and pat connected Use arsenic Ringtone. Then, that audio record volition beryllium listed arsenic a ringtone enactment successful the Settings app nether Sounds & Haptics → Ringtone.

Apple continues to merchantability 30-second opus ringtones for $1.29 each done the iTunes Store app.

Digital Passport

iOS 26 lets you create a integer mentation of your U.S. passport connected your iPhone.

After creating a Digital ID the Apple Wallet app, based connected your U.S. passport, you tin contiguous it successful idiosyncratic astatine prime TSA checkpoints for individuality verification purposes during home travel. However, Apple says it is not a replacement for a carnal passport, and it cannot beryllium utilized for planetary question and borderline crossing purposes.

Apple says the Digital ID diagnostic is secure, private, and compliant with REAL ID.

The passport-based Digital ID tin besides beryllium utilized for property and individuality verification successful apps, online, and successful stores, according to Apple.

'Select' successful Messages

A caller "Select" enactment successful the Messages app connected iOS 26 lets you prime and transcript a information of substance wrong a connection bubble successful a conversation.

On earlier iOS versions, you tin lone transcript an full connection bubble.
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