iOS 26 and iPadOS 26 are now available to the public after several months of intensive testing.onehas been released to the public! So if you haven't participated in its development or public release in the past weeks and months, beta testing, you now have theoneyou have the opportunity to have it on your iPhone or iPad. Just keep in mind that there are a lot of users trying to download now, so the download speed may be slower than you are used to. You can update by default via Settings - In general - Software update.
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iOS 26 compatibility
iOS 26 you will be able to install on these models:
- iPhone 16 Pro Max
- iPhone 16 Pro
- iPhone 16
- iPhone 16 Plus
- iPhone 16e
- iPhone 15
- iPhone 15 Plus
- iPhone 15 Pro
- iPhone 15 Pro Max
- iPhone 14
- iPhone 14 Plus
- iPhone 14 Pro
- iPhone 14 Pro Max
- iPhone 13
- iPhone 13 mini
- iPhone 13 Pro
- iPhone 13 Pro Max
- iPhone 12
- iPhone 12 mini
- iPhone 12 Pro
- iPhone 12 Pro Max
- iPhone 11
- iPhone 11 Pro
- iPhone 11 Pro Max
- iPhone SE 2
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iPadOS 26 compatibility
You will be able to install iPadOS 26 on the following models:
- iPad Pro (M4), iPad Pro 12.9″ (3rd generation and later), iPad Pro 11″ (1st generation and later)
- iPad Air (M2 newer), iPad Air (3nd generation and later)
- iPad (A16), iPad (8th generation and later)
- iPad mini (A17 Pro) and iPad mini (5nd generation and later)
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iOS and iPadOS 26 news
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Appearance
- Liquid Glass makes interactions with the system more enjoyable iOS, refracts and reflects content in real time, drawing even more attention to what you're watching on screen.
- Adaptive Lock Screen Time seamlessly adapts to the available space on your lock screen, complementing your photo themes and adapting to display notifications and live activities.
- Spatial scenes allow you to add a new 3D effect to your photo wallpapers that come to life when you move them iPhonem.
- App icons get a new look thanks to Liquid Glass, and there are more ways to customize them with an updated light or dark look, new colorful icons, and a new clean look.
- Animated album art makes music playback even more immersive with full-screen animations designed by artists on supported albums.
Apple Intelligence
Visual intelligence
- Get more information about content in any app by pressing the same buttons you use to take a screenshot.
- Highlight and search for something specific on the screen.
- Jump to Google search results based on on-screen content, find related items from your most used third-party apps, or ask a question ChatGPT to what you are currently viewing.
Live translation
- Automatically translate incoming texts, including group messages, in the Messages app, and send replies in your preferred language—they'll be translated upon delivery.
- In FaceTime, live translated captions appear on the screen during a call.
- In the Phone app, audio is translated and played in real time, and you can listen to the transcription while on the speakerphone.
- S AirYou can listen to Podschat Hands-free translation when someone around you is speaking to you in another language.
Abbreviations
- Smart Actions let you use writing tools, Image Playground, and more in your shortcuts Apple Intelligence.
- "Use Model" is a new action that allows you to directly use models Apple Intelligence and get answers that will feed into the rest of your shortcut, or use ChatGPT if you want to take advantage of its extensive knowledge and expertise.
Genmoji and Image Playground
- Create a Genmoji by mixing two emojis or combining emojis with a description to create what you have in mind.
- Choose expressions for your Genmoji people to make the characters look happy, shocked, and so on.
- Personal attributes, such as hairstyle and beard, can be edited for Genmoji inspired by people from your Photos library.
- More styles with ChatGPT lets you explore other styles like oil painting and anime, or you can tap Any Style and describe the image and style you want.
Camera
- The simplified design makes it even easier to access photo and video modes, while other modes are still just a swipe away.
- Lens cleaning tips will alert you when your lens is dirty so you can take the cleanest photo possible (iPhone 15 and later).
- New gesture AirPods allow you to take a photo or start recording a video by simply pressing the stopwatch on AirPods 4 and AirPods Pro 2 and newer.
Photography
- Separate tabs for library and collections make navigation easier, and you have access to search in every view.
- The collection view can be customized with three different layout options, and collections can be easily collapsed and rearranged.
- With event recognition, such as concerts and sporting events, you can view event details and access related content.
Phone
- A new unified layout brings together your favorites, recent calls, and voicemails.
- The call screening feature allows you to filter incoming calls from unknown numbers and find out the caller's name and the reason for the call before the phone even rings.
- Filtered calls from unknown numbers can be placed in a new area of the call log so they don't bother you.
- Hold Assist will hold your place in the queue while you wait to be connected to a live operator and call you back as soon as an operator is available.
News
- Filtering unknown senders helps you control who can contact you and places filtered messages in a new area of your conversation list so they don't get in your way.
- Backgrounds can be added to conversations to make them more personal, with the option to use built-in backgrounds, your own photos, or images created with Image Playground.
- Polls can help you find out when everyone has time for a planned price or decide on a joint gift.
- Group typing indicators make it easy to see who is about to join the conversation.
CarPlay
- The new design with Liquid Glass helps differentiate individual interaction areas on the dashboard and offers a new tab bar design for easy navigation within apps.
- The compact design for incoming calls makes it easy to see upcoming turns in your favorite navigation app.
- Tapbacks in the Messages app let you easily respond to messages while driving, like with a thumbs up or a heart.
- Pinned conversations appear at the top of the Messages app, so you can easily access your most frequently used conversations.
- sady widgetYou can find them on the left side of the dashboard, so you have an overview of your favorite apps at a glance.
- Live activity automatically appears on your dashboard, so you can easily track events in real time, even on the go.
Maps
- Places you visit gives you the ability to allow your iPhone to detect places you visit, such as restaurants or stores, so you can easily find them again in your Maps library and easily share them.
- Preferred routes improve your frequent trips by learning the routes you take between places you visit regularly, like your commute from home to work.
Hudba
- Translation and pronunciation of song lyrics will help you understand the meaning of your favorite songs and make it easier for you to sing along with them, even if you don't know the language.
- AutoMix transitions from one song to the next like a DJ, time-stretching and adjusting the beat to provide smooth playback.
- Pin songs, albums, playlists, and more to the top of your library for quick and easy playback.
Penězhenka
- Updated boarding passes give you better access to up-to-date and relevant information about your flights and airports, as well as quick access to airline app features.
- Order Tracking (beta) uses Apple Intelligence to search for emails sent by merchants or delivery people and gathers all your order details, status notifications, and other information in one place in the Wallet app.
- Installment finance optionsancPayments from your bank or card provider for credit and debit card purchases are available when you pay Apple Pay in the store on the iPhone.
Apple GAMES
- The new app is a comprehensive place to play games on your iPhone, helping you return to your favorite games, discover new favorites, and play with friends in new ways.
- Challenge friends, follow real-time scores, and see what else your friends are playing.
- Access your entire game library, including new and previously downloaded games from App Store a Apple Arcade, and launch them when you're ready to play.
- New game recommendations are based on the games you like to play.
Protecting children online
- Communication requests allow children to send requests to their parents when new phone numbers appear that they want to communicate with.
- Existing accounts can easily be converted to child accounts to take full advantage of all available child safety protections.
- Age-appropriate app experiences give parents the ability to allow children to share their age category with third-party apps so they can access content and features appropriate for their age group.
- Communication safety is expanding to intervene if nudity is detected during live FaceTime calls and to blur nudity in shared albums in Photos.
Accessibility
- Accessibility Accessibility information on product pages in App The Store will tell you before you download apps and games whether they have accessibility features like VoiceOver, Voice Control, and subtitles.
- Reader makes it easier to read text in any app by offering new ways to customize text with extensive font, color, and spacing options, as well as support for spoken content.
- Braille access helps you take notes, read documents, access live captions, launch apps, and perform various other tasks effortlessly using a connected braille display.
Other
- Preview is a new application for iPhone designed for viewing and editing PDF files, offering powerful features such as autofill, document scanner, and export options.
- FaceTime has a redesigned home page that features personalized contact posters for your recent callers and video messages that play as you scroll.
- The Reminder Suggestions feature uses Apple Intelligence to identify relevant tasks when you share an email, web page, note, or other text with the Reminders app.
- Local Capture records high-quality audio and video from your iPhone during any video call, allowing you to create interviews or podcasts with the cleanest recordings.
- Audio input selection in Control Center makes it easy to choose the right microphone for each app, including websites.
- The estimated charging time will let you know how long it will take to charge your iPhone.
- Adaptive Power learns your typical battery usage and makes automatic adjustments on days with higher usage to help you extend battery life throughout the day (iPhone 15 Pro and later).
- Blood pressure records in the Health app can send you reminders to take your blood pressure using a third-party cuff and create a PDF report for your doctor.
- The new Workout tab in the Fitness app brings workout tracking so you can track metrics like pace and distance, and even more if you have a compatible heart rate monitor like AirPods Pro 3. If you have Apple Watch, you can take advantage of the larger screen when using features like creating your own workouts.
- Adaptive Temperature automatically sets the thermostat to your preferred temperature when you're on your way home, and adjusts to save energy when you leave the house or go on vacation.
- Custom alarm snooze options let you set how long you can snooze your alarm when it rings, with options ranging from 1 to 15 minutes.
- Password History provides a timeline of changes you've made to your account in Passwords, including a history of past passwords and generated strong passwords
- Notes lets you import and export files in Markdown format
Here's to RC. So there are some changes.
Do you have RC and does it offer you anything? Nothing for me yet and I have RC IP 16 Pro max
Yes. And I have 16PM too. Try turning it off betaversion.
Even according to the official website Apple my old one is also updated
iPhone SE (2nd generation and later)
According to the official website Apple is there an update for my old one too
iPhone SE (2nd generation and later)
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MINI 13 – installed without any problems. Everything seems to be working as it should…
Such visual brevity.
I have photos on the lockscreen - the background changes every time I wake up the display.
I changed the font height of the clock a bit. Well, now the height changes every time the photo changes / I wake up the display - from standard height to extra stretched... this is normal behavior and it does it based on some "analysis" of a particular photo. At the same time, I also have the depth turned on, so it sometimes gives me clocks in the background behind the object / face.
The new design is absolutely terrible, disgusting and confusing...
Yeah, golden android.
My first impression was the same. After a day of using it and setting everything up, I can't wait to see it. Great👍🏻
IPadOS pleased me with the features that were added. Applications that run simultaneously on the second monitor run stably and switch beautifully. But with windows it's worse, they took away the intuitive split view, which centered itself in the center and could also be adjusted. It never nestalo that the displayed application would not return to its original state. Now in iPados 26 there is a total chaos of windows, it is easy to rearrange as needed, but everything takes 10 minutes longer than setting the windows as needed. If you do not have a keyboard or Apple Pencil you'll be able to smash your screen like never before. It's best to control windows via shortcuts, but that requires a keyboard. However, if you're used to a fast workflow and are now upgrading to iOS 26 – working with windows will be so inconvenient and you will rather reach for a mac. I think it is not a bug or some kind of error, it is a feature of the new iPadOS and you will either learn to live with it or it will become a piece of cake for you like it did for me. I can withstand 2-3 updates if the system is the same I will switch to a mac after about 6 years.
It's really terrible, it's so bad that I want to turn off all the design stuff and go back.
Updated on 15 Dec max a iPad Pro. Well, I kind of remembered android from 3 years ago :D
We'll soon have beta 26.1 (really not 26.0.1), so I'm curious about the news.
If one follows apple the last 20-30 years, you can't be surprised anymore. When it comes to design, we basically keep going in circles and it's similar with functions. Something useful disappears and returns with great glory a few years later. Just like design skeufemism.
I upgraded from 15PM to 18.7 and it's the best version in a long time. Beautiful, fast system.
For those who don't want a new 26.
12 mini It's fine. Nothing lags. It uses battery normally. iPad Air with the M1 chip it seems to me that it eats up the battery a lot more. AW Ultra 2 well-being. The function of hearing aids is great AirPods Pro 2. I have 60k hearing aids so I was wondering how this would work and I'm pretty excited. Beautifully usable and very very natural. So far Apple Thumbs up. Especially for the long support and for the fact that even older devices get new features.
It's a shame those dolphins don't move even when they're working normally.
iOS 26 on SE 2 after a clean install just fine.