Top Stories: iOS 26 Beta 2, iPhone 17 Color Rumors, and More

Apple is moving close on with beta investigating connected iOS 26 and related versions of its different large operating systems, releasing the 2nd betas to developers this week with an array of tweaks compared to the archetypal betas.


The past week besides saw immoderate caller rumors astir the iPhone 17 and beyond, portion CarPlay Ultra seems to beryllium falling retired of favour with immoderate car brands, truthful work connected beneath for each the details connected these stories and more!

Everything New successful iOS 26 Beta 2

Apple this week provided developers with the 2nd beta of iOS 26, introducing the archetypal changes and refinements to the caller operating strategy since it debuted astatine the WWDC keynote. Because we're aboriginal successful the beta investigating process, determination are rather a fewer tweaks to ‌iOS 26‌ with this caller beta, and we've rounded them up successful an nonfiction and accompanying video.


Among the changes are improvements to the look of Control Center with the caller Liquid Glass design, a new ringtone that was discovered hiding successful the archetypal beta and which officially became disposable successful this week's beta, immoderate tweaks for Safari and the Wallet app, and more.

iPhone 17 Base Model Rumored to Come successful New Purple and Green Colors

One of the astir fashionable topics for rumor and speculation up of each iPhone generation's unveiling is the colour options for the assorted models, and this twelvemonth is nary exception.


According to 1 root with a mixed way record, Apple has been investigating caller purple and greenish colour options for the regular iPhone 17 model, though it's imaginable lone 1 of them volition marque it to accumulation and that would astir apt beryllium the purple model. We'll spot successful September if that turns retired to beryllium accurate!

20th-Anniversary iPhone May Not Feature an All-Screen Design After All

There's a rumor contention brewing with respect to Apple's extended iPhone roadmap, kicked disconnected by Bloomberg's Mark Gurman claims implicit the past period that Apple is aiming to shrink the size of the Dynamic Island successful the 2026 iPhone models earlier moving to an all-screen plan with curved solid for the Pro models successful 2027.


Display expert Ross Young claimed this week, however, that the timeline volition beryllium a spot longer than that, with the smaller Dynamic Island successful 2026 being followed by further shrinkage successful 2028 that volition spot each remaining Face ID elements determination underneath the show with the camera remaining separate. Young believes it won't beryllium until 2030 that everything volition beryllium capable to determination nether the show sheet to present the afloat all-screen design.

These Apple CarPlay Ultra Partners Now Say They Won't Support It

Apple is facing mounting absorption from automakers implicit CarPlay Ultra, the next-generation mentation of its CarPlay bundle strategy for vehicles that was officially launched past month.


A caller Financial Times study claims several large brands are walking backmost their earlier commitments to enactment the upgraded dashboard software. German luxury manufacturers Mercedes-Benz and Audi person some distanced themselves from the system, on with Volvo, Polestar, and Renault.

Porsche remains committed to supporting the diagnostic successful an unspecified clip frame, and Hyundai, Kia, and Genesis were conscionable announced arsenic caller partners past month, truthful they look to inactive beryllium connected committee arsenic well.

iOS 26's New Battery Life Mode Available Only connected These iPhone Models

iOS 26 introduces an opt-in Adaptive Power Mode connected the iPhone, which Apple says tin marque "small show adjustments" erstwhile indispensable to widen an iPhone's artillery life, including somewhat lowering the show brightness oregon allowing immoderate activities to "take a small longer."


The diagnostic will lone beryllium disposable connected immoderate of Apple's astir caller iPhone models, however, arsenic it requires Apple Intelligence successful bid to function. That means Adaptive Power Mode volition beryllium constricted to the iPhone 15 Pro, iPhone 15 Pro Max, and each iPhone 16 models. All iPhone 17 models coming aboriginal this twelvemonth volition of people undoubtedly enactment it.

iPhone Driver's Licenses: These 17 U.S. States Offer Them oregon Will Later

Digital driver's licenses successful the Wallet app connected iPhone are currently supported successful 9 U.S. states and Puerto Rico, but Apple antecedently announced an further 8 states that person signed connected to follow the diagnostic successful the future, and determination volition astir surely beryllium others.


iOS 26 volition besides introduce a caller Digital ID based connected a U.S. passport. Users nationwide volition beryllium capable to usage this integer passport for individuality verification astatine prime airdrome information checkpoints erstwhile traveling domestically, though it won't beryllium a replacement for a carnal passport needed erstwhile traveling internationally.

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