It’s finally here – iOS 26 brings the largest money on iOS in recent memory. And yes, we have gone from iOS 18 to 26 as the Apple wants a more united name scheme for our operating system for its portfolio.
The biggest new increase in iOS 26 is liquid glass – Apple’s new unified design language. It is clearly influenced by vision, and Apple says it makes “purely digital digital, which is natural and alive.” The entire UI includes crystal -like design elements and more dynamic touch reactions.
The lock screen is updated with liquid glass and is now more responsible. Time widget can adapt to the subject of your photos and the number of upcoming information. Apple also included new local scenes, which have a 3D impact in your wallpaper. This provides some Nintendo 3DS vibrations.
The camera app is another to re -design the liquid glass. The UI is also round, and a swipe brings all the settings. All photo and video quality options are eventually available in one place.
iOS 26 camera app
The photo app has also been updated with a new visual identity and receives the library and collection tabs. Any 2D image can be converted into a 3D local scene.
Safari brings a small and adaptable tab bar, which mixes with your script and dynamically shrinking the page so you can see more pages.
Facetime is a new landing page that has personal contact posters and video messages with your contacts.
The phone app also gets a favorite tab as well as the recents and voice mail listed below. Apple is bringing you voicemail summary to help you save time. Contacts and capes are still accessible below.
The call screening will fight the calls coming from unknown numbers in the background. If you receive a call from an unknown number, your iPhone will start ringing only after providing the name and call of the person coming to another end.
Hold Assist’s companies can help you keep your place during blacks and will notify you when you reach a real person on the second line.
Messages get new new backgrounds of chats, you can even use AI-breeding people. Group chats receive pools, Apple Cash and typing indicators inside the pool. The screening tools of the phone app are also here with the detection of the device spam.
Directly translated is Apple’s restorative translation app, which has been brought by Apple Intelligence. It is connected to messages, phone and facetime apps. Users can use this feature during calls and can also get translation captions during fee time calls.
The carplay is also on the new design of liquid glass as it extends its way to the car. You get mild and dark methods and new compact alerts for upcoming calls, messages and other notifications. Apple is also bringing widgets to carplay UI and direct activities. The same widgets made for iPhones will work on a new carplay.
carpel in iOS 26
Apple also showed the carplay ultra, which was announced last month. This version of the carplay captures all the screens on your car, including the speedometer, and allows you to have more detailed adaptations such as adjustment in your car’s radio and climate control.
Re -design of liquid glass is also coming to Apple Services. Apple music translates and pronunciation on your lock screen as well as 3D album artwork dynamic images. Helps the perfect mix and transfer between automix songs. Music Pin allows you to pin favorite songs, artists and species.
Apple also introduced its new game app. It is one of the most destinations for sports, searching for new titles and connecting with friends. This app includes home, arcade, play together, and library tabs. The gamers will get events, new updates, and the app can jump directly into their favorite sports.
Apple Games • Visual intelligence
Visual intelligence in iOS 26 receives some of the most important tools. Now you can find anything on your device’s screen, such as looking for a Google Circle. Apple’s method takes some other steps. You take a screenshot, and then you will see a new asking tool and the image search button. From there, you can highlight the item you want to find and it will pop up on Google or another app that you use for search and purchase. Visual intelligence can also extract the event’s invitations and the features of Chat GPT integration.
Apple maps can now learn your preferred paths and adapt to your trips to improve your tours. Apple is also bringing you visiting places to help you re -experience restaurants and other places that you have recently visited.
Apple wallet flight status • Apple maps
The purse app gets a new boarding pass interface with airport mapping. You can also share your flight status and find my trackers.
Apple will release iOS 26 as a developer son today. The public beta is next month, while the final user version will decrease at the end of this fall.
