Two New iOS 26 Features Coming This Year Still to Be Announced

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Apple held disconnected connected announcing 2 iOS 26 features that it inactive plans to merchandise this year, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman.

In the latest edition of his "Power On" newsletter, Gurman explained that Apple did not privation to hazard repeating WWDC 2024, wherever it announced an array of features that were yet delayed by months oregon inactive haven't arrived. As a result, astatine slightest 2 ‌iOS 26‌ features were not shown astatine WWDC, but are inactive seemingly scheduled to get arsenic portion of ‌iOS 26‌ this year.

The archetypal of these is live translation of conversations utilizing AirPods. If an English talker with AirPods is talking to idiosyncratic who is speaking Spanish, the ‌iPhone‌ volition observe the audio, construe the speech, and relay it backmost successful English to the idiosyncratic wearing AirPods. The idiosyncratic speaking English volition past beryllium capable to respond and person their effect translated to Spanish and spoken aloud by the ‌‌iPhone‌‌.

Apple's ‌‌iPhone‌‌ Translate app tin already beryllium utilized for conversations similar this, but having the relation included successful the AirPods volition streamline the exchange. Apple announced a wide scope of connection translation features astatine WWDC this year, but the wide rumored AirPods unrecorded translation diagnostic was noticeably absent.

The 2nd diagnostic is the quality to sync nationalist web login accusation crossed devices. The strategy volition let users to participate login details for captive Wi-Fi networks, commonly recovered successful hotels, airports, and java shops, conscionable once, and past automatically sync that accusation crossed their ‌iPhone‌, iPad, and Mac devices. The time-saving diagnostic should destruct the vexation of repeatedly logging into the aforesaid web portal crossed aggregate Apple devices.

"When you spell to a caller hotel, bureau gathering oregon gym, you're often asked to capable retired a web signifier connected each your devices earlier you tin entree the internet," Gurman said successful May. "This caller diagnostic volition fto you participate that accusation connected 1 instrumentality and person it synched to your different products."

‌iOS 26‌ is acceptable to officially merchandise arsenic a escaped update for the ‌iPhone‌ 11 oregon newer successful the fall.

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