What's New in iOS 26.1 Beta 4

Even though we're astatine the 4th beta of iOS 26.1, Apple is continuing to adhd caller features. In fact, the 4th beta has immoderate of the biggest changes that we'll get erstwhile iOS 26.1 releases to the nationalist aboriginal this month. We've rounded up what's caller below.

Liquid Glass Transparency Toggle

Apple added a toggle for customizing the look of Liquid Glass. In Settings > Display and Brightness, there's a caller enactment to power betwixt Clear oregon Tinted settings.


Clear is much transparent and is the modular mentation of Liquid Glass that displays the inheritance underneath buttons, paper bars, and different interface elements, portion Tinted increases the opacity of Liquid Glass and adds contrast.

Lock Screen Camera Swipe

In the Camera conception of the Settings app, there's a Lock Screen Swipe to Open Camera setting, and turning it disconnected disables the diagnostic wherever you tin swipe near to unfastened the camera from the Lock Screen.


The iPhone has agelong allowed users to unfastened the Camera app straight from the Lock Screen with a swipe, but it tin beryllium a mounting that's casual to activate, and it provides a mode for idiosyncratic that gets ahold of an ‌iPhone‌ to usage it to instrumentality unwanted photos.

There was antecedently nary mode to crook disconnected Lock Screen camera activation without disabling the camera app entirely.

Phone Haptics

In the Phone app, there's a toggle to crook disconnected haptic feedback erstwhile a telephone is connected oregon dropped.

Apple Intelligence Settings

Apple has changed the look of the Apple Intelligence conception successful the Settings app, and it is present near aligned. Apple made the alignment alteration for different sections of the Settings app successful earlier betas, but ‌Apple Intelligence‌ remained the same.


Apple has besides removed the "Beta" statement from ‌Apple Intelligence‌, but it's not wide if immoderate features are officially retired of beta, oregon if it's an oversight. Apple has not removed the beta labeling successful macOS Tahoe 26.1 beta 4.

More Features

Know of a diagnostic that we near out? Let america cognize successful the comments. To spot what Apple has added successful anterior iOS 26.1 betas, check retired our iOS 26.1 diagnostic guide.
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