iOS 26 Contains These 100 New Options and Adjustments for Your iPhone

Apple has introduced iOS 26, and the upcoming software program replace features a lengthy listing of recent options and modifications for iPhones.

The primary iOS 26 developer beta is now out there, and a public beta will observe subsequent month. The replace might be launched later this yr.

iOS 26 is suitable with the iPhone 11 and newer.

Beneath, we now have offered a high-level overview of 100 new options and modifications which can be coming with iOS 26, in no specific order:

1. A brand new Liquid Glass design with shimmery app icons and a translucent interface that displays and refracts the encircling colours
2. There’s a redesigned tab bar in apps
3. A brand new “Clear” choice for Residence Display screen app icons and widgets, alongside the present “Gentle” and “Darkish” choices
4. On the Lock Display screen, the clock dynamically adapts to fill empty house
5. On the Lock Display screen, there may be an choice to view full-screen album paintings
6. Polls in group chats within the Messages app
7. Add a customized background to any dialog within the Messages app
8. Now you can ship and obtain Apple Money in group chats within the Messages app
9. Typing indicators at the moment are seen in group chats within the Messages app
10. There’s a new “Add Contact” button in group chats within the Messages app
11. A brand new “Choose” choice within the Messages app lets you choose a portion of textual content inside a message bubble
12. Messages app can display screen messages from unknown senders, putting them into an Unknown Senders folder
13. Messages app has gained pure language search
14. Maintain Help can wait on maintain for you throughout a telephone name, and notify you when the dwell agent is prepared for you
15. Name Screening routinely solutions unknown callers, and asks for his or her title and the rationale for his or her name, earlier than your iPhone rings
16. Dwell Translation for calls and texts throughout the Telephone, FaceTime, and Messages apps
17. A preinstalled Apple Video games app allows you to uncover video games, in-game occasions, and compete with buddies with new challenges
18. A preinstalled Preview app allows you to create, edit, annotate, markup, and export PDFs, plus crop, flip, rotate, and resize photos
19. Photographs app is now cut up into Library and Collections tabs
20. Related video thumbnails at the moment are proven in search leads to the Photographs app
21. Within the Photographs app, you may create 3D spatial variations of photographs, which was beforehand solely doable utilizing the Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional
22. Digital camera app has an easier design with Video and Picture tabs
23. Within the Digital camera app, you’ll obtain an alert if a digicam lens must be cleaned, as long as “Lens Cleansing Hints” is toggled on within the Settings app
24. The screenshot enhancing interface has been barely redesigned
25. Within the Settings app, now you can flip off CarPlay screenshots underneath Basic → Display screen Seize, in order that taking a screenshot in your iPhone doesn’t additionally generate a CarPlay screenshot whereas the machine is linked to CarPlay
26. Within the Settings app, can now flip off iCloud Drive syncing through mobile knowledge
27. Telephone app now has an non-compulsory all-in-one format that mixes Favorites, Recents, and Voicemails
28. Telephone app now helps display screen sharing and SharePlay throughout telephone calls
29. Telephone app presents new Monogram types for contacts
30. A brand new Focus mode allows you to silence a person SIM
31. Journal app now allows you to create a number of journals
32. Journal app entries can now be considered on a map
33. Journal app now lets photos be added inline with textual content
34. Passwords app now reveals password historical past
35. Safari now has three layouts: Compact, Backside, and Prime
36. Safari now presents superior fingerprinting safety for all looking by default
37. Suggestions app now presents step-by-step guides for troubleshooting widespread iPhone points
38. Now you can take a look at AirPods beta firmware instantly through the Settings app
39. You can begin recording video within the Digital camera app by urgent and holding on the stem of AirPods 4 or AirPods Professional 2
40. AirPods 4 and AirPods Professional 2 now supply studio-quality audio recording
41. AirPods can now detect once you go to sleep and routinely pause audio
42. You at the moment are notified when your AirPods are absolutely charged
43. You may be reminded to cost your AirPods when their battery life is low
44. AirPods audio can now routinely swap to CarPlay as essential
45. Now you can set a customized snooze length of 1 to fifteen minutes within the Clock app
46. Visible Intelligence now works with on-screen content material, so you may ask ChatGPT questions on what you’re looking at
47. Visible Intelligence can now learn aloud and summarize screenshots with textual content
48. Genmoji can now mix two customary emoji into one customized one
49. Picture Playground presents new ChatGPT picture types, together with Oil Portray, Watercolor, Vector, Anime, and Print
50. Within the Shortcuts app, there’s a new set of shortcuts powered by Apple Intelligence
51. Apple Music allows you to pin playlists, albums, and artists on the high of the Library tab
52. Apple Music allows you to create playlist folders
53. Lyrics translation for Apple Music songs
54. AutoMix for Apple Music can seamlessly combine from one tune to the subsequent like a DJ
55. Dwell Actions assist for boarding passes within the Apple Pockets app
56. Pockets app now shows related info under the boarding move, akin to Apple Maps instructions to the suitable airport terminal, and a shortcut to the Discover My app’s baggage monitoring characteristic
57. Create a digital ID within the Pockets app utilizing your U.S. passport, for age and id verification in supported apps, and at choose shops and TSA checkpoints
58. In collaborating U.S. states, “Confirm with Pockets on the Internet” lets you current your driver’s license or state ID within the Pockets app to web sites for age and id verification, beginning with Chime, Turo, Uber Eats, and U.S. Financial institution, in addition to the Arizona MVD, Georgia DDS, and Maryland MVA
59. Now you can handle AutoFill bank cards within the Pockets app
60. When toggled on, a brand new Adaptive Energy mode could make small changes to increase battery life, akin to by barely reducing show brightness or permitting sure background actions to take longer
61. Within the Settings app, you may see how lengthy it should take to your iPhone’s battery to realize a full cost when the machine is charging
62. Your entire Battery part of the Settings app was overhauled
63. A brand new “Preserve Audio in Headphones” setting prevents audio from routinely switching to newly linked gadgets, like automotive audio system or Bluetooth audio system, when you find yourself already listening by AirPods or different headphones
64. Now you can entry a listing of blocked contacts through the Settings app
65. Security Examine is now an choice when blocking a contact
66. Apple Information+ subscribers within the U.S. and Canada can play a brand new Emoji Recreation
67. A brand new set of Background Sounds embrace Babble, Steam, Airplane, Boat, Bus, Practice, Rain on Roof, and Quiet Evening
68. The so-called Residence bar on the backside of the display screen is now hidden extra typically
69. Climate through satellite tv for pc will assist you to obtain the most recent forecast info whereas outdoors of Wi-Fi or mobile vary
70. Within the Notes app, notes may be exported as a Markdown file
71. With Apple Intelligence, the Reminders app can recommend duties, grocery gadgets, and follow-ups based mostly on emails or different textual content in your machine
72. Apple Intelligence can routinely categorize reminders within the Reminders app
73. Now you can create reminders within the Reminders app through the Motion button
74. Apple Maps can now be taught your commute between house and work, and notify you if there are any vital delays alongside your typical route, and supply alternate routes if out there
75. Apple Maps can intelligently detect and save the locations that you just ceaselessly go to and spend time in, akin to eating places or shops
76. Apple Maps now allows you to select from extra kinds of incidents on the “Report an Incident” display screen
77. You need to use an iPhone as a wi-fi microphone for the Apple Music Sing characteristic on the Apple TV 4K (third era)
78. Within the Apple Podcasts app, there at the moment are a wider vary of playback pace choices, from 0.5x to 3x
79. Within the Apple Podcasts app, an Improve Dialogue choice allows you to hear speech extra clearly over background sounds
80. Within the Apple Pockets app, Apple Intelligence can now routinely determine, summarize, and show order monitoring particulars from emails despatched from retailers or supply carriers
81. Apple Pay now allows you to use rewards and installments for in-store purchases
82. Customized Plans in Apple Health+ now routinely create a customized schedule based mostly on customers’ exercise and meditation preferences
83. New accessibility options, akin to Accessibility Reader and Braille Entry
84. Private Voice can now create a smoother, extra natural-sounding replication of your voice in lower than a minute, utilizing solely 10 recorded phrases
85. Automobile Movement Cues has gained new choices to additional assist scale back movement illness
86. Mother and father can now create or transfer youngsters into Baby Accounts much more simply
87. Mother and father can grant an exception for his or her baby to obtain an app with an age score that exceeds the app content material restriction they set
88. Enhancements throughout Communication Limits, Communication Security, and the App Retailer embrace parental approvals for contact requests from youngsters, and blurring out delicate content material in FaceTime calls and photographs in Shared Albums
89. There’s a new “Switch From Android” choice throughout eSIM setup
90. Wi-Fi Conscious is now supported
91. Now you can sync captive Wi-Fi portal login info throughout Apple gadgets
92. Arabic calculator
93. Multiscript keyboard for Arabic/English
94. Now you can specify spelling whereas utilizing the Dictation characteristic
95. Liquid Glass design extends to CarPlay when utilizing an iPhone operating iOS 26
96. CarPlay now can now present Dwell Actions on the Dashboard display screen
97. CarPlay can now show widgets for issues like calendar appointments and Residence app accent controls (beforehand CarPlay Extremely solely)
98. CarPlay now has a compact view for incoming telephone calls
99. CarPlay now reveals pinned conversations within the Messages app
100. CarPlay now allows you to reply to messages with the usual set of Tapbacks within the Messages app