June 9, 2025
PRESS RELEASE
Apple elevates the iPhone expertise with iOS 26
The discharge delivers a surprising new design, highly effective Apple Intelligence capabilities, new methods to remain linked within the Cellphone and Messages apps, and thrilling updates to CarPlay, Apple Music, Maps, and Pockets
CUPERTINO, CALIFORNIA Apple immediately previewed iOS 26, a significant replace that brings a lovely new design, clever experiences, and enhancements to the apps customers depend on day-after-day. The brand new design offers a extra expressive and pleasant expertise throughout the system whereas sustaining the moment familiarity of iOS. Built-in all through the system and constructed with privateness from the bottom up, Apple Intelligence will get much more succesful. Updates to the Cellphone and Messages apps assist customers keep linked whereas eliminating distractions like undesirable calls. iOS 26 additionally introduces new options in CarPlay, Apple Music, Maps, and Pockets, in addition to Apple Video games, a brand-new app that provides gamers a single vacation spot for all their video games.
“iOS 26 shines with the attractive new design and significant enhancements to the options customers depend on day-after-day, making iPhone much more useful,” mentioned Craig Federighi, Apple’s senior vice chairman of Software program Engineering. “Experiences are extra expressive and private, from the Lock Display and Dwelling Display, to new capabilities throughout Cellphone and Messages that assist customers give attention to the connections that matter most. And with highly effective new Apple Intelligence capabilities built-in throughout the system, customers can get issues accomplished simpler than ever.”
A Lovely New Look
The new design makes apps and system experiences extra expressive and pleasant, whereas conserving iOS immediately acquainted. It’s crafted with Liquid Glass — a brand new translucent materials that displays and refracts its environment, bringing larger focus to content material, and delivering a brand new degree of vitality throughout controls, navigation, app icons, widgets, and extra. The brand new design extends to the Dwelling Display and Lock Display, making them extra private and expressive than ever. Liquid Glass additionally brings new customization choices to app icons and widgets, together with a surprising clear look.
On the Lock Display, the time fluidly adapts to the out there area in a picture, and spatial scenes convey wallpapers to life with a 3D impact when customers transfer iPhone. Up to date design parts additionally ship recent experiences in apps. A simplified, streamlined Digicam format helps customers preserve their consideration on the second they’re capturing, and the Pictures app is up to date to function separate tabs for Library and Collections views. In Safari, internet pages circulate from the highest edge to the underside of the display screen, enabling customers to see extra of the web page whereas sustaining entry to often used actions like refresh and search. In Apple Music, Information, and Podcasts, the tab bar is redesigned to drift above customers’ content material, dynamically shrink when customers are looking to place content material entrance and heart, after which develop after they scroll again up.
An up to date set of APIs offers builders with entry to Liquid Glass supplies and parts to allow them to make their apps seem simply as dynamic and pleasant.
New Capabilities Powered by Apple Intelligence
Apple Intelligence elevates the iPhone expertise and helps customers get issues accomplished simpler than ever, whereas unlocking new methods to speak and do extra with what’s on their display screen. Reside Translation is built-in into Messages, FaceTime, and Cellphone to assist customers talk throughout languages, translating textual content and audio on the fly.1 Reside Translation is enabled by Apple-built fashions that run completely on gadget, so customers’ private conversations keep private.
Constructing on Apple Intelligence, visible intelligence extends to a person’s iPhone display screen to allow them to search and take motion on something they’re viewing throughout apps. Customers can ask ChatGPT questions on what they’re taking a look at onscreen to study extra, in addition to search Google, Etsy, or different supported apps to search out comparable photographs and merchandise. Visible intelligence additionally acknowledges when a person is taking a look at an occasion and suggests including it to their calendar, repopulating key particulars like date, time, and site.2
Genmoji and Picture Playground present customers with much more methods to precise themselves, together with mixing their favourite emoji, Genmoji, and descriptions collectively to create one thing new.3
Shortcuts are actually extra highly effective and clever than ever. Customers can faucet into clever actions, an entire new set of shortcuts enabled by Apple Intelligence, and can see devoted actions for options like Writing Instruments and Picture Playground.
Apple Intelligence can now mechanically determine and summarize order monitoring particulars from emails despatched from retailers and supply carriers, giving customers the flexibility to see their full order particulars and progress notifications multi function place — even for purchases not made with Apple Pay.
Moreover, a brand new Basis Fashions framework opens up entry for any app to faucet instantly into the on-device basis mannequin on the core of Apple Intelligence, giving builders direct entry to highly effective intelligence that’s quick, constructed with privateness at its core, and out there offline, utilizing AI inference that is freed from price.
Options for Staying Related and Eliminating Interruptions
Basic to the iPhone expertise, the Cellphone app now presents a unified format that mixes Favorites, Recents, and Voicemails multi function place. Name Screening builds on Reside Voicemail and helps get rid of interruptions by gathering data from the caller and giving customers the main points they should determine in the event that they wish to decide up or ignore the decision.4 And for the occasions when a person is caught on maintain, Maintain Help notifies the person when a reside agent is out there.5
In Messages, customers can now display screen messages from unknown senders, giving them extra management over who seems of their dialog listing. Messages from unknown senders will seem in a devoted folder the place customers can then mark the quantity as identified, ask for extra data, or delete. These messages will stay silenced till a person accepts them.
iOS 26 additionally presents enhancements to conversations, together with customized backgrounds and the flexibility to create polls. With Apple Intelligence, Messages can detect when a ballot would possibly turn out to be useful and counsel one, and customers can generate distinctive backgrounds that match their dialog with Picture Playground. Moreover, in group chats, customers can now see typing indicators, and request, ship, and obtain Apple Money.6
Enhancements to CarPlay
CarPlay — the smarter, safer method to make use of iPhone whereas driving — is used over 600 million occasions per day, and now with iOS 26, it receives updates that make it much more stunning and straightforward to make use of. The beautiful design features a new compact view for incoming calls, permitting customers to see who’s calling with out lacking key data like upcoming instructions. iOS 26 additionally brings Tapbacks and pinned conversations to Messages in CarPlay, and with widgets and Reside Actions, customers can keep within the loop with out dropping give attention to the highway. These updates additionally come to CarPlay Extremely, which brings one of the best of iPhone and one of the best of the automobile collectively for a deeply built-in, unified expertise throughout each display screen.
Updates to Apple Music, Maps, and Pockets
In Apple Music, Lyrics Translation helps customers perceive the phrases to their favourite songs, whereas Lyrics Pronunciation permits everybody to sing alongside, no matter language. AutoMix makes use of intelligence to transition from one music to the following like a DJ, utilizing time stretching and beat matching to seamlessly transfer from one music to the following.
In Apple Maps, Visited Locations assist customers bear in mind the locations they’ve been. Customers can select to have iPhone detect after they’re at a spot like a restaurant or store, and look at all of their Visited Locations in Maps. Visited Locations are protected with end-to-end encryption and can’t be accessed by Apple. Moreover, iPhone can now use on-device intelligence to higher perceive a person’s day by day route, presenting them with their most popular route after they’re headed house or to the workplace, together with notifying them of delays and providing alternate routes.
Updates in Apple Pockets assist make on a regular basis interactions with the bodily world simpler than ever. Customers can select to pay with installments or rewards after they make in-store purchases with Apple Pay utilizing iPhone. Refreshed boarding passes in Pockets provide the flexibility to see and share Reside Actions for real-time updates on a flight. In addition they present handy entry to a traveler’s most related data, similar to Maps to navigate airports, Discover My to trace necessary gadgets and report lacking luggage, and extra.
Further options in iOS 26:
- Apple Video games is a brand new app that provides gamers an all-in-one vacation spot for his or her video games. It helps gamers leap again into titles they love, discover their subsequent favourite, and have much more enjoyable with associates. They’ll discover out what’s occurring throughout all their video games, together with main occasions and updates, in order that they by no means miss a second. The Video games app can be one of the best ways to expertise Apple Arcade, Apple’s recreation subscription service with greater than 200 award-winning and extremely rated video games for the entire household.
- AirPods are extra versatile than ever with new options for AirPods 4, AirPods 4 with Lively Noise Cancellation (ANC), and AirPods Professional 2. Constructing on the advantages of Voice Isolation, studio-quality audio recording permits iPhone, iPad, and Mac customers to file their content material with nice sound high quality and luxuriate in even clearer calls. With digital camera distant, customers can press and maintain the AirPods stem to take a photograph or begin and cease a video recording on iPhone or iPad.
- Dad and mom can now create or transfer children into Little one Accounts much more simply, benefiting from a large set of parental controls designed to maintain kids secure. Enhancements throughout Communication Limits, Communication Security, and the App Retailer embrace parental approvals for contact requests from children, blurring out delicate content material in FaceTime calls and photographs in Shared Albums, and enabling mother and father to grant an exception for his or her youngster to obtain an app with an age score that exceeds the app content material restriction they set.
- Searching in Safari will get much more non-public with superior fingerprinting safety extending to all looking by default.
- Highly effective accessibility options embrace Accessibility Reader, which offers a custom-made systemwide studying expertise, and Braille Entry, an all-new interface for iPhone gadgets with linked braille shows. Updates to Reside Hear, Background Sounds, Private Voice, and extra convey a brand new degree of accessibility throughout the Apple ecosystem.
Availability
All of those options can be found for testing beginning immediately by the Apple Developer Program at developer.apple.com, and a public beta shall be out there by the Apple Beta Software program Program subsequent month at beta.apple.com. New software program options shall be out there this fall as a free software program replace for iPhone 11 and later. The Apple Intelligence options detailed require supported gadgets, which embrace all iPhone 16 fashions, iPhone 15 Professional, iPhone 15 Professional Max, iPad mini (A17 Professional), and iPad and Mac fashions with M1 and later which have Apple Intelligence enabled and Siri and gadget language set to the identical supported language: English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese (Brazil), Spanish, Japanese, Korean, or Chinese language (simplified). Extra languages shall be coming by the tip of this yr: Danish, Dutch, Norwegian, Portuguese (Portugal), Swedish, Turkish, Chinese language (conventional), and Vietnamese. For extra data, go to apple.com/apple-intelligence. Options are topic to vary. Some options will not be out there in all languages or areas, and availability might differ as a consequence of native legal guidelines and rules. For extra details about availability, go to apple.com.
About Apple
Apple revolutionized private expertise with the introduction of the Macintosh in 1984. Immediately, Apple leads the world in innovation with iPhone, iPad, Mac, AirPods, Apple Watch, and Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional. Apple’s six software program platforms — iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, visionOS, and tvOS — present seamless experiences throughout all Apple gadgets and empower folks with breakthrough companies together with the App Retailer, Apple Music, Apple Pay, iCloud, and Apple TV+. Apple’s greater than 150,000 staff are devoted to creating one of the best merchandise on earth and to leaving the world higher than we discovered it.
- Reside Translation in Messages helps English (U.S., UK), French (France), German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese (Brazil), Spanish (Spain), and Chinese language (simplified). Reside Translation in Cellphone and FaceTime is out there for one-on-one calls in English (U.S., UK), French (France), German, Portuguese (Brazil), and Spanish (Spain).
- The power so as to add an occasion to a calendar with visible intelligence is out there in English on all iPhone 16 fashions, iPhone 15 Professional, and iPhone 15 Professional Max.
- Genmoji and Picture Playground can be found in English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese (Brazil), Spanish, and Japanese.
- Name Screening helps Cantonese (China mainland, Hong Kong, Macao), English (U.S., Australia, Canada, India, Eire, New Zealand, Puerto Rico, Singapore, South Africa, UK), French (Canada, France), German (Germany), Japanese (Japan), Korean (Korea), Mandarin Chinese language (China mainland, Taiwan, Macao), Portuguese (Brazil), and Spanish (U.S., Mexico, Puerto Rico, Spain).
- Maintain Help helps English (U.S., Australia, Canada, India, Singapore, UK), French (France), Spanish (U.S., Mexico, Spain), German (Germany), Portuguese (Brazil), Japanese (Japan), and Mandarin Chinese language (mainland China).
- Apple Money companies are supplied by Inexperienced Dot Financial institution, Member FDIC. Apple Funds Companies LLC, a subsidiary of Apple Inc., is a service supplier of Inexperienced Dot Financial institution for Apple Money accounts. Neither Apple Inc. nor Apple Funds Companies LLC is a financial institution. Be taught extra concerning the phrases and situations. Solely out there within the U.S. on eligible gadgets.
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