Key New Features in Apple’s Latest Update

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Apple unveiled iOS 26 at WWDC 2025, introducing a sweeping range of enhancements and user-focused features. The most significant update is the debut of a new visual design language called Liquid Glass, accompanied by a version number change—now iOS 26—to better align Apple’s OS naming across platforms.

Here’s a summary of the standout updates discovered so far in the iOS 26 developer beta.

🧰 Utility Enhancements
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Custom Alarm Snoozing: You can now define how long alarms snooze for—between 1 to 15 minutes. Just tap an alarm and select “Snooze Duration.”
AI Integration in Shortcuts: Choose between on-device and cloud-based models for AI tasks like summarization within Shortcuts.
Safari Bookmark Gesture: Quickly double-tap the three-dot menu in Safari to bookmark the current page.
Smarter Screenshot Menu: A redesigned interface lets you interact with content using visual intelligence—for example, summarizing text or reading it aloud.
Volume Sliders Upgrade: You can now adjust output-specific volume directly in the audio source picker.

📞 Phone Improvements
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Call List Filters: Filter by All, Missed, Voicemails, Unknown, or Spam.
Focus Mode by SIM: Assign distinct Focus modes to each SIM card.
Updated Call Interface: Includes an overflow menu for quick access to call assist, recordings, and live translations.
Detailed Call History: View a complete call log per contact with a simple tap.

🔋 Battery Enhancements
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Performance View Redesign: Combines daily and weekly views with visual indicators of increased or reduced usage.
App-Specific Battery Use Insights: See background activity and unusual consumption patterns.
Battery Charging Estimates: Displays estimated time to full charge and lets you override charge limits when needed.
Adaptive Power Mode: Dynamically adjusts system behavior—like screen brightness or app performance—to conserve power when needed.

📋 Reminders
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Auto-Categorization: Automatically sorts different types of to-dos.
Share to Reminders: Add reminders directly from shared content (like recipes), with contextual suggestions.
Swipe to Remind: Swipe a call entry to create a callback reminder.
Partial Message Selection: Highlight specific text in Messages for easier task creation.

🎵 Apple Music
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Playlist Folders: Organize your playlists into folders.
Transition Effects: Choose crossfade or automix (tempo-based) transitions between songs.
Lock Screen Animation: Enjoy new visual effects for album covers.

📷 Camera Features
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Lens Clean Alert: Get a notification if the lens is dirty (can be disabled).
Indicator Toggles: Customize visibility for Flash, Live Photo, and other settings.
Camera Adjustments Panel: Central location to modify or disable various camera controls.

🌐 Language Support
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Language Suggestions: Based on your usage, iOS suggests adding keyboards or adjusting preferences—for instance, suggesting Arabic if you often read or type in it.
New Keyboards: Includes native Arabic transliteration and 24-key Thai layouts.
Bilingual Suggestions: The keyboard can now suggest words in both Latin and local scripts in 10 languages.