Apple’s latest developer betas make the iPhone quieter and quicker while the iPad grows up with real windowing, on-device smarts, and a privacy posture that lets you work rather than wrestle.I have lived on iOS 26 and iPadOS 26 developer betas through for the last few months ever since their unveil at WWDC 2026,

Apple iOS updates often introduce advanced new iPhone features and CarPlay is expected to get a major upgrade. Here's what you need to know.

The third public beta of Apple’s iOS 26 has just landed, and it comes with a few minor tweaks and adjustments for your iPhone. But there’s one change that has really caught my eye, and it’s made my iPhone feel so much faster in the process.

RCS messaging between Android and iOS might get a major upgrade in the coming months based on code references in the iOS 26 beta.

With iOS 26, Apple fixes that, by building Visual Intelligence into the screenshot interface. Now you can use the same AI-powered features on any screenshot, from any app. It can be a web page, a video, a video game; if you can take a screenshot, you can use Visual Intelligence on it.

People with an Apple Watch Series 9, Series 10 or Apple Watch Ultra 2 can also download WatchOS 11.6.1 to bring the new blood oxygen app to their device. Apple wrote online that the update won't affect Apple Watches that include the original blood oxygen feature or people who bought an Apple Watch outside the US.

Apple's upcoming iOS 26 will feature Adaptive Power, an AI-driven setting designed to extend battery life during high usage activities like gaming and video recording.