OS Overview

Stunning design.
Stellar experiences.

Introducing our broadest design update ever, a more helpful Apple Intelligence, and exciting features coming to iOS 26, iPadOS 26, macOS 26, watchOS 26, visionOS 26, and tvOS 26.

Coming this fall

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iPhone Lock Screen with photo, numerals for time in Liquid Glass, two notifications appear on bottom of screen

Get the highlights.

A new design with Liquid Glass delivers a delightful experience across devices.

$Liquid Glass display with clear app icons, like Apple Music, Reminders, Photos, Games, Podcasts, and FaceTime refracting against the wallpaper$
Visual intelligence now lets you search, ask questions, and take action with the content on your iPhone screen.¹
Communicate across languages with Live Translation in Messages,² FaceTime, and Phone.³
A new, intuitive windowing system for iPad gives you more power and flexibility.
Workout Buddy for Apple Watch delivers personalized, audible motivation using your fitness history.⁴
With Apple Vision Pro, widgets for go-to apps and info stay put in your space.

Design

Beautiful, delightful, and familiar across your devices.

A new design with Liquid Glass brings hardware and software together like never before, so everything you do feels more vibrant and expressive — yet instantly familiar.

Watch the film

New, universal design.

Liquid Glass reflects and refracts what’s beneath it in real time, dynamically adapting to your content across apps and devices.

Coming to: iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, Apple TV 4K⁵
A more vibrant Lock Screen.

The time transforms based on your photo and the surrounding space, keeping your subject in view. When you move your device, your photo comes to life with a new 3D effect.⁶

Coming to: iPhone, iPad
Updated app icons crafted from Liquid Glass.

Personalize your Home Screen or Dock with updated light or dark appearances, new colored-tinted icons, or a stunning clear look.

Coming to: iPhone, iPad, Mac
Dynamic controls.

Across apps, Liquid Glass controls reflect and refract their surroundings and fluidly morph to bring more focus to your content.

$Translucent controls in Apple Music refract the background$

Coming to: iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch
Everyday apps, elevated.

From Camera and Photos to Safari and FaceTime, your go-to apps look gorgeous with Liquid Glass. And moving across apps and devices feels more harmonious than ever.

Coming to: iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, Apple TV 4K

Apple Intelligence

Smarter in even
more places.

With deeper integration in more apps, Apple Intelligence helps you communicate across languages, explore your surroundings, and stay organized — even more effortlessly.⁷

Live Translation.

Automatically translate texts in Messages,² display live translated captions in FaceTime, and get spoken translations for calls in the Phone app.³

Coming to: iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch
Do more with visual intelligence.

It builds on Apple Intelligence, so you can search across your most used apps, add an event to your calendar, and ask questions — letting you do more with what’s on your screen.

Coming to: iPhone
Accelerate your workflows.

Intelligent actions in Shortcuts can summarize text, create images, or tap directly into Apple Intelligence models to provide responses that feed into your shortcut.

Coming to: iPhone, iPad, Mac
More ways to express yourself with images.

Mix emoji and descriptions to make something brand-new. In Image Playground, discover additional ChatGPT styles. And have even more control when making images inspired by family and friends using Genmoji and Image Playground.⁸

Coming to: iPhone, iPad, Mac
Go the extra mile with Workout Buddy.

A brand-new text-to-speech model generates personalized pep talks using voice data from an Apple Fitness+ trainer, so it has the right energy, style, and tone for a workout.⁴

Coming to: Apple Watch

Communication

Goodbye distractions.
Hello meaningful interactions.

From voice to text to video, there are more ways than ever to express yourself. And new features give you more power to reduce interruptions.

Manage unwanted calls.

Call Screening automatically answers unknown callers without interrupting you. Once the caller shares their name and the reason for their call, your phone rings and you can decide if you want to pick up.⁹

Coming to: iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch
Screen new senders.

Approve unknown numbers with new screening tools that detect spam and give you control over who appears in your conversations in Messages and your recent calls in Phone and FaceTime.

Coming to: iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch
Let the Phone app wait on hold for you.

Hold Assist keeps your spot in line while you wait for a live agent and notifies you when they’re ready.¹⁰

Coming to: iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch
Add a background to any conversation.

Select from stunning built-in options or choose any of your own photos to bring a distinct personality to your Messages conversations.

Coming to: iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, Apple Vision Pro
Polls in Messages.

Create a poll to help the group chat decide. Everyone in the conversation can contribute options and watch as votes come in.

Coming to: iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, Apple Vision Pro

Productivity

Do it all. A whole lot easier.

Discover handy new tools to help you stay organized, supercharge workflows, and make quick work of almost any task.

More powerful windowing.

Open more windows at once, and resize and organize them your way.

Coming to: iPad
Biggest Spotlight update ever.

In addition to new ways to browse your content, Spotlight lets you take hundreds of actions without lifting your hands off the keyboard. And new quick keys help you perform actions even faster.

Coming to: Mac
A supercharged Files app.

Find what you’re looking for faster with new folder colors and customization options. An updated list view gives you resizable columns and collapsible folders. And you can set the default app for opening specific file types.

Coming to: iPhone, iPad
Folders in the Dock.

Access your downloads, documents, and more in folders in the Dock, now on iPad.

Coming to: iPad
Notes comes to Apple Watch.

Create new notes or view existing ones right on your wrist in the Notes app. You can even tell Siri to start a new note when you’re on the go.

Coming to: Apple Watch

Discovery

Go all out. Take it all in.

Tap into new ways to discover the world and navigate with ease. Get real-time information when you need it most. And enjoy more immersive entertainment on the go.

CarPlay redesigned with Liquid Glass.

React with a Tapback in Messages, follow Live Activities, and get more information at a glance so you can stay connected and focused while you drive.¹¹

Coming to: iPhone
Maps understands your preferred routes.

Maps learns the routes you travel regularly and can alert you about significant delays, even before you head out. If your routine changes, iPhone adapts to it so you can conquer your commute.

Coming to: iPhone
Visited Places in Maps.

Never forget a place with the option to remember where you’ve been with Visited Places. Quickly find that great cafe from a trip and share it with a tap.¹²

Coming to: iPhone
New Games app.

Stay up to date with what’s happening across all your games, discover new ones your friends are playing, get tailored recommendations, and compete with friends in score-based showdowns.

Coming to: iPhone, iPad, Mac
Spatial scenes for visionOS.

Spatial scenes transform images and viewing experiences, giving them lifelike depth. You can view them in Photos, Safari, and Spatial Gallery — and third-party developers can incorporate them, too.

Coming to: Apple Vision Pro
Refreshed Apple TV app and Apple Music Sing.¹³

A refreshed design makes content more immersive. Your iPhone becomes the mic with Sing on Apple Music. And with so much content to love, profiles appear when Apple TV wakes from sleep, so you can quickly jump to your favorite shows, sports, and music.

Coming to: Apple TV 4K

There’s even more in store.

Widgets for visionOS.

Keep your favorite widgets — like Photos, Clock, Music, and Calendar — just a glance away. Customize their frame thickness, color, and depth so your space is arranged the way you like it, every time you put on Apple Vision Pro.

Coming to: Apple Vision Pro
Spatial web for visionOS.

Spatial browsing, 3D models, and more bring all-new ways to experience the web.

Coming to: Apple Vision Pro
Share experiences nearby.

Now you can share Apple Vision Pro experiences with people in the same room — like watching the latest movie or playing spatial games together.¹⁴

A Minecraft Movie is available to buy or rent on the Apple TV app

Coming to: Apple Vision Pro
Smart Stack hints.

With improved prediction algorithms that fuse on-device data and trends from your daily routine, the Smart Stack now delivers a gentle prompt when it has a suggestion that’s immediately useful for you.

Coming to: Apple Watch
Journal on more devices.

Jot down thoughts, illustrate, and create entries in your own handwriting using iPad and Apple Pencil. Easily type long, detailed entries on Mac. And create multiple journals for different aspects of your life.

Coming to: iPad, Mac
Preview comes to iPad and iPhone.

Open, edit, and mark up PDFs and images with this easy-to-use app, designed to work great with Apple Pencil.¹⁵

Coming to: iPad, iPhone