Apple’s iOS 26 beta offers sleek design updates and faster performance. Learn what’s new and decide if you should install it now.

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 seventh developer betas of iOS 26 and watchOS 26 include a redesigned Blood Oxygen feature on Apple Watch Series 9, Apple Watch Series 10,

Each fall’s major iOS update and its accompanying set of new features have become a staple of the iPhone user experience. iPhone owners – even those who don’t keep up with all the latest Apple news – expect and anticipate these enhancements every year.

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.

OS 26 has given the iPhone's Camera app a major overhaul – here's my early verdict after spending several days with it.

Apple has just dropped public beta 3 versions of iOS 26, iPadOS 26, macOS 26, tvOS 26, watchOS 26, and visionOS 26. If you’re part of the public beta program, you can grab the new updates right now and test them out on your own devices.