Apple Inc has released yet another very sophisticated platform software, iOS 26. iOS 26 is the latest operating system built and released by Apple, the producer of the luxurious iPhone products.

The latest version of iPhone's Operating System, iOS 26, comes with stunning features ranging from first of its kind, feature that enhance concentration,  eliminating distraction while users stay connected to the phone and messages apps, 

The  latest version of iOS 26 also comes with the introduction of new features including Maps, Apple Music, CarPlay, Wallet, and Apple Games, a brand-new app that gives players a single destination to download all their games.

iOS 26 Comes With Liquid Glass

While maintaining the traditional user's experience the latest version of iPhone's Operating System, iOS 26 comes with Liquid Glass, reflecting and refracting the surrounding in a stunning way. 

Liquid Glass gives users more capabilities to personalize the navigation system, 3D enabled wallpaper, phone's theme, icon's setting, lock screen, and clock (time) display.

iOS 26 & Developers 

Among many new features integrated to the iOS 26, the latest iPhone's operating system allows software engineers to gain access to some contents of the Liquid Class by making call to the provided APIs.

Live Translation on iOS 26 

One of the newest features integrated to iOS 26 is the Live Translation. Live Translation enables all iPhone users to enjoy seamless communication among themselves regardless of dynamisms in locations, ethnicity or languages.

Live Translation enables users to automatically read or listen to messages (text and audio) in their preferred language regardless of the original language of the message.

With Live Translation, iPhone users  get messages (text and audio) sent in foreign languages automatically translates to their (preferred) local language. Interestingly, Live Translation is device based and enabled by default so iPhone users with iOS 26 running on their device now get language barrier completely eliminated.

Be in the messaging apps, documents formatting apps, media players or device visual display unit, iOS 26 running iPhones now enjoy seamless communication.

 Visual Intelligence on iOS 26 

iOS 26 is empowered with very powerful Visual Intelligence enabling users to search for anything they come across on the phone at any instance, on the go. Visual Intelligence allows users to search Etsy, Google, other supported engines, and ask ChatGPT whatever using both image and texts as input query.

The new intelligence also allows users to automatically create a reminder alarm for an event, creating date, time, and location of the event whenever it automatically detects that the user is looking at either texts or image of an event in any app.

Genmoji

iOS 26 now runs a Genmoji and image playground which provide users with collections of emojis they can use to express the moment in chats. More interesting about Genmoji is that iOS 26 now enables users to manually combine more than one emoji to create a new emoji, giving users more rooms with convenience to personalise their Emoji world.

New Phone Call App on iOS 26 

iOS 26 Phone Call App now comes with new functionalities offering a unified call history layout combining Favorites, Recents, and Voicemails histories, all in one place.

More interesting is that iOS 26 running iPhones users now have more decisive reason to determine which call to pick or not, and why they should as the new phone call app asks the caller their personal details and why they are calling, the information that will be displayed to the iPhone Users while the call rings. Thus enables iPhone users to screen their calls and decisively determine which call they pick or ignore, in turn eliminating distraction when using other apps.

iOS 26 Messages

iOS 26 Messages now automatically screens messages and determine which is to be seen by the users.

Messages from known sources will be added to the traditional conversation list while messages from unknown sources will be added to a separate dedicated folder where users can request for the sender's full details enabling them to determine whether to accept the message and add it to the known list or reject and delete the message.

In the same message app, users can now set their preferred backgrounds with image playground. Users can also see typing indicator in group chat with ability to request, send, and receive Apple Cash within the group.

Updates to CarPlay, Apple Music, Map, Wallet, Browsing, Parental Control, AirPods, & Apple Games

For the first time, iOS 26 gives a centralised place for users to access all of their games at Apple Games; as CarPlay get more enhanced enabling combined views of phone calls activities and traveling direction while traveling without obstruction. Also, AirPods now come with more powerful Active Noise Cancellation (ANC), and AirPods Pro 2 combining advanced features like Voice Isolation and studio-quality audio recording which allow iPhone, iPad, and Mac users to record their content with great sound quality and enjoy even clearer calls.

Safari browser is now with clearer navigation than ever while prant van now conveniently move their kids to kid's account for an enhanced Parental Control.

In Wallet, users can choose to pay with installments or rewards when they make in-store purchases with Apple Pay using iPhone while Apple Music now come with various enhanced features including Lyrics Translation which enable users to read translated text of the music they are listening to, in their  preferred language; Lyrics Pronunciation also helps users to sing song with the correct time intended by the original singer while AutoMix uses Apple Intelligence to seamlessly transition from one song to another like a professional DJ.