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 Telephone and Messages apps, and thrilling updates to CarPlay, Apple Music, Maps, and Pockets
CUPERTINO, CALIFORNIA Apple at present previewed iOS 26, a serious replace that brings a ravishing new design, clever experiences, and enhancements to the apps customers depend on on daily basis. The brand new design supplies 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 Telephone 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 beautiful new design and significant enhancements to the options customers depend on on daily basis, making iPhone much more useful,” mentioned Craig Federighi, Apple’s senior vp of Software program Engineering. “Experiences are extra expressive and private, from the Lock Display screen and Residence Display screen, to new capabilities throughout Telephone and Messages that assist customers deal with the connections that matter most. And with highly effective new Apple Intelligence capabilities built-in throughout the system, customers can get issues finished simpler than ever.”
A Stunning New Look
The new design makes apps and system experiences extra expressive and pleasant, whereas preserving iOS immediately acquainted. It’s crafted with Liquid Glass — a brand new translucent materials that displays and refracts its environment, bringing better focus to content material, and delivering a brand new stage of vitality throughout controls, navigation, app icons, widgets, and extra. The brand new design extends to the Residence Display screen and Lock Display screen, 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 screen, the time fluidly adapts to the obtainable area in a picture, and spatial scenes carry wallpapers to life with a 3D impact when customers transfer iPhone. Up to date design components additionally ship contemporary experiences in apps. A simplified, streamlined Digicam structure helps customers hold their consideration on the second they’re capturing, and the Images app is up to date to function separate tabs for Library and Collections views. In Safari, internet pages stream from the highest edge to the underside of the display screen, enabling customers to see extra of the web page whereas sustaining entry to continuously 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 shopping to place content material entrance and heart, after which increase after they scroll again up.
An up to date set of APIs supplies builders with entry to Liquid Glass supplies and elements 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 finished simpler than ever, whereas unlocking new methods to speak and do extra with what’s on their display screen. Stay Translation is built-in into Messages, FaceTime, and Telephone to assist customers talk throughout languages, translating textual content and audio on the fly.1 Stay Translation is enabled by Apple-built fashions that run totally 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 related 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 specific 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, a complete 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 robotically 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 immediately 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 obtainable offline, utilizing AI inference that is freed from value.
Options for Staying Linked and Eliminating Interruptions
Basic to the iPhone expertise, the Telephone app now provides a unified structure that mixes Favorites, Recents, and Voicemails multi function place. Name Screening builds on Stay Voicemail and helps eradicate interruptions by gathering info from the caller and giving customers the small print they should resolve in the event that they need 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 dwell agent is accessible.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 recognized, ask for extra info, or delete. These messages will stay silenced till a person accepts them.
iOS 26 additionally provides 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 recommend 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 simple to make use of. The gorgeous design features a new compact view for incoming calls, permitting customers to see who’s calling with out lacking key info like upcoming instructions. iOS 26 additionally brings Tapbacks and pinned conversations to Messages in CarPlay, and with widgets and Stay Actions, customers can keep within the loop with out dropping deal with the highway. These updates additionally come to CarPlay Extremely, which brings the very best of iPhone and the very 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 tune to the subsequent like a DJ, utilizing time stretching and beat matching to seamlessly transfer from one tune to the subsequent.
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 examine 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 every day route, presenting them with their most well-liked route after they’re headed dwelling 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 supply the flexibility to see and share Stay Actions for real-time updates on a flight. Additionally they present handy entry to a traveler’s most related info, corresponding to Maps to navigate airports, Discover My to trace necessary objects and report lacking baggage, 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 soar again into titles they love, discover their subsequent favourite, and have much more enjoyable with associates. They’ll discover out what’s taking place 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 also be one of the simplest 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 Energetic 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 report their content material with nice sound high quality and revel 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.
- Mother and father can now create or transfer youngsters into Little one Accounts much more simply, profiting 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 youngsters, blurring out delicate content material in FaceTime calls and images in Shared Albums, and enabling dad and mom to grant an exception for his or her little one 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 shopping by default.
- Highly effective accessibility options embrace Accessibility Reader, which supplies a personalized systemwide studying expertise, and Braille Entry, an all-new interface for iPhone units with linked braille shows. Updates to Stay Pay attention, Background Sounds, Private Voice, and extra carry a brand new stage of accessibility throughout the Apple ecosystem.
Availability
All of those options can be found for testing beginning at present by the Apple Developer Program at developer.apple.com, and a public beta might be obtainable by the Apple Beta Software program Program subsequent month at beta.apple.com. New software program options might be obtainable this fall as a free software program replace for iPhone 11 and later. The Apple Intelligence options detailed require supported units, 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 might be coming by the top of this yr: Danish, Dutch, Norwegian, Portuguese (Portugal), Swedish, Turkish, Chinese language (conventional), and Vietnamese. For extra info, go to apple.com/apple-intelligence. Options are topic to vary. Some options will not be obtainable in all languages or areas, and availability might fluctuate because of native legal guidelines and laws. For extra details about availability, go to apple.com.
About Apple
Apple revolutionized private know-how with the introduction of the Macintosh in 1984. At present, 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 units and empower individuals with breakthrough companies together with the App Retailer, Apple Music, Apple Pay, iCloud, and Apple TV+. Apple’s greater than 150,000 workers are devoted to creating the very best merchandise on earth and to leaving the world higher than we discovered it.
- Stay Translation in Messages helps English (U.S., UK), French (France), German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese (Brazil), Spanish (Spain), and Chinese language (simplified). Stay Translation in Telephone and FaceTime is accessible for one-on-one calls in English (U.S., UK), French (France), German, Portuguese (Brazil), and Spanish (Spain).
- The flexibility so as to add an occasion to a calendar with visible intelligence is accessible 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 obtainable within the U.S. on eligible units.
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