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.

By embedding spatial computing into users’ photos, arguably a person’s most personal digital real estate, Apple is training people to expect depth and dimension everywhere. And by making it available as a lock-screen feature, it’s even clearer that this is Apple’s attempt to gently introduce people to the direction it’s heading as a company.

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,

The seventh developer beta of iOS 26 is here, and with it returns the previously disabled Apple Watch blood oxygen feature. Here's what's new.

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.