Major iPhone updates like iOS 26 typically come with hundreds of new features and changes, but a much smaller subset that become daily go-tos. Here are four new iOS 26 features I’ve found myself using ...

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Update: As noted by Nick Heer on his Pixel Envy blog, analytics data is unreliable because Safari on iOS 26 is reporting a different operating system version in the user agent string that analytics ...

When it comes to software and certain hardware launches, Apple typically follows fairly predictable patterns. Most new software releases arrive with a cadence that varies little from year to year. So ...

Not Loving Liquid Glass in iOS 26? Here's How to Tone Down the Transparency Liquid Glass is a very polarizing design choice for Apple; some even feel dizzy while looking at it. Unfortunately, it's ...

It's been four months since Apple released its iOS 26 update for supported iPhone models. Thanks to its tight control over hardware and software development, Apple has a high adoption rate for its ...

Rumor: Apple’s iOS 27 to Focus on Performance, AI, and Foldable iPhone Support Your email has been sent If you thought your iPhone couldn’t get any smoother, Apple might be about to prove you wrong by ...

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Starting with the iOS 26.3 beta, Apple appears to be laying the groundwork for carriers to be able to support end-to-end encryption (E2EE) for RCS messages, and that news should actually have even ...

Macworld reports that iOS 26 has achieved only 18.1% adoption among iPhone users as of January 2026, significantly lower than iOS 18’s 77.1% at the same timeframe. The poor adoption rate appears ...

Apple made the third betas of iOS 26.3 and macOS 26.3 available to developers on Monday. This comes two weeks after the second round, double the usual time between new versions. The same goes for ...

iOS 26 was the most ambitious iPhone operating system update since the iOS 7 revamp. Of course, with such a major change, not everyone was going to like the update, and during the iOS 26 beta cycle, ...