What to Expect From iOS 26.4

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iOS 26.3 is shaping up to beryllium a comparatively insignificant update, with only a mates of notable caller features, but iOS 26.4 is expected to beryllium overmuch much significant.

We are inactive waiting for the iOS 26.3 Release Candidate to travel out, truthful the archetypal iOS 26.4 beta is apt inactive astatine slightest a fewer weeks away. Following beta testing, iOS 26.4 volition apt beryllium released to the wide nationalist astatine immoderate constituent successful March oregon April.

Below, we person recapped known oregon rumored iOS 26.4 features truthful far.

Personalized Siri

Earlier this month, Apple and Google announced that Google Gemini volition help powerfulness a much personalized mentation of Siri coming this year.

The much personalized mentation of Siri is expected to beryllium introduced with iOS 26.4, pursuing a lengthy delay. The caller capabilities volition see amended knowing of a user's idiosyncratic context, on-screen awareness, and deeper per-app controls, but immoderate of this functionality might not beryllium disposable until iOS 27 aboriginal this year.

For example, each the mode backmost astatine WWDC 2024, Apple showed an iPhone idiosyncratic asking Siri astir their mother's formation and luncheon preservation plans based connected info retrieved from the Mail and Messages apps.

Looking ahead, Apple is reportedly planning to motorboat a full-out Siri chatbot connected iOS 27, allowing users to person ChatGPT-like conversations with Siri.

New Emoji

Last year, the Unicode Consortium previewed immoderate of the caller emoji that are expected to beryllium added to the iPhone with iOS 26.4.

Here are 9 of the caller emoji:

Trombone

Treasure Chest

Distorted Face

Hairy Creature (aka Bigfoot oregon Sasquatch)

Fight Cloud

Apple Core

Orca

Ballet Dancers

Landslide

Apple astir precocious added caller emoji to the iPhone with iOS 18.4, an update that came retired successful March past year. iOS 17.4, iOS 16.4, and iOS 15.4 besides introduced caller emoji implicit the years, truthful the timing has go predictable by this point.

Macworld's Filipe Espósito past period leaked immoderate other imaginable iOS 26.4 features:

If you person recognition paper accusation stored successful Apple's Passwords app, you volition beryllium capable to AutoFill those details successful third-party apps.

You volition beryllium capable to make folders successful the Freeform app.

Apple is seemingly moving connected a caller sports tier for the Apple TV app, but the study did not connection immoderate further details astir this.