A latest iOS brings the latest prospects, and there are many plenty to find them in iOS 26, iPhone software update Apple has predicted this week in the WWDC 2025. But with any refreshment, some new iOS features stand.
I’ve been covering the iPhone for a long time to know that it is impossible to read the software update until you spend some time with it. This is not possible at this time, even if you can download iOS 26 developer beta. Although you can get the taste of things coming later this year, when the full release comes, no one is obliged to be slightly around beta edges in this early stage.
Nevertheless, based on what Apple has shown so far, there are certainly some features that I look forward to finding during the beta process. Interestingly, this year Apple’s software update center has no relation with the restoration of liquid glass interface.
Partially, this is a reflection of the nature of the software interface. Staring steel and hype videos just tells you about a new interface. You can only realize how the interface comes using the software itself. And really, if Apple is doing its job correctly, the liquid glass -affected software should not be used from the interface you have used over the past decade.
Instead, iOS 26 additions that have received my attention to enhance the current features. Look. To me, these are the changes that – if they promise, they will improve your iPhone experience.
Call and Text message screening
No jokes – if I get less than three robcals a day on my iPhone where some robotic voice is promising tax, loan stability or any other sketching, I wonder if something has gone wrong in communication grid. Even I got one of these phone calls when I was listening to the WWDC 2025 key note, long after the Apple’s offer, where Craig Federgie talked about the steps taken to help Apple Robucles.
Right now, I directly use the voice mail feature, where I send any unknown collar to the sound mail and wait for a screen transcript to confirm that this is a call from some snake oil salesman that I can safely ignore. But iOS 26 promises to take this step for me with its new call screening feature.
With call screening, your phone responds to unknown calls from you – you don’t need to press such a button directly with voicemail. The caller then shares the reason for his name and his call, and the phone ring offers you on the screen with this information. Then you can decide whether to call or not.
If it works according to the advertisement, the Takes of Keeping Spam Calls in the Gulf should reduce the amount of anxiety in the call screening. Ideally, robcles will be completely ignored because they will not be able to follow the indications of describing their names and businesses if they launch in their spell.
The screening phone does not stop with the app. Messages in iOS 26 also include screening tools, which leave you on a separate tab away from interacting with unknown people that you know and trust. Then you can go through this list on your leisure and decide which messages are on the app’s main screen and which messages can be exiled on the land of ghosts. Recent calls in phone and fee time apps will get similar filtering tools.
Pool in Group Chats
I find myself in multiple group chats – a group of friends in my local area, a couple of pairs in a pairs, even with a close family members. And sometimes we have to decide things as we are gathering for drinks or when we will record our next podcast event or each of us is expected to enjoy this evening. It usually lifts a lot of chats in chats, where everyone weighs with their opinions, and it seems that it takes more time to reach more consensus.
That is why when Apple started talking about the polling feature, my ears made fun when messages were coming into group chats. This chaos is to add a little order that everyone in the group wants to weigh it with feedback.
Pools in messages look like it works how you will imagine. You post a list of options, and the people in your group chat cast their votes, their chat avatar appears with your chosen option. And don’t worry about feeling light that their choice was never considered – there is an ADD selection tool where anyone can enter their option in the pool. Vox Popoli, Vox Di.
On -screen awareness for visual intelligence
The goal of any on -device AI is to inform him of the data on his screen so he can take action, whether he is looking for more information about a particular item or add details to your calendar. In fact, this is a huge hold up right now, as Apple tries to make its digital assistant more intelligent.
But although Siri’s review may not be developed by 2026, the context is coming in another sense in iOS 26, thanks to the latest features in visual intelligence, AI -powered tools that have turned your iPhone camera into a search tool.
With iOS 26, these visual intelligence features spread in screenshots. Now that you are on a social media app or a website and you see something on the screen that catchs your eye, catchs the screenshot, demands visual intelligence and allows this tool to find more information about this particular item or item. If there is a date, time and location information, you also have a button that can convert it all to a calendar entry.
It is not aware of the complete context, as it still needs some interference from you. But new abilities make visual intelligence a more useful tool that does not fully rely on the iPhone camera.
Pund music
Not every change in the operating system needs to be dramatic to be useful. Sometimes, this is just a small adaptation that makes all the difference.
I think that the new feature of Pinking will increase in Apple Music. In iOS 26, you will be able to pin playlists, albums or artists, and they will appear in the upper part of the music app library.
This is such a simple feature that Apple does not even identify it on its iOS 26 preview page, which only mentions the increase in passing during the WWDC key note. And still, this is the first thing I will turn to the right before I start exercise and need to ask for a specific song to make myself psychological. (If you were thinking, “my favorite rebellion” by rebellion).
Better boarding passes in the wallet
Digital boarding pass available in the Wallet app certainly makes it easier for travel, as you don’t have to worry about keeping a track of paper tickets. Just flash your iPhone at the gate, and you are free on the board.
But unlike iOS 26 simply, the boarding passes are going to make more useful. Apple is promising access to airport maps with your boarding pass, and you will also be able to use my location tracking tools to find your luggage (probably with the help of a one air tag). The boarding pass will also be engulfed in direct activities, which will allow you to share your flight arrival status with others, whether they are lifting you at the airport or if they just want to know if you are safely descended.
More control over Snozing
When I get down on my iPhone every morning, I’m not above hitting the Sneud button. But maybe I will not be able to adjust that the alarm sound is allowed to be sounded. This will be a possibility in iOS 26.
Apple says it is taking a change in the watch app where you can adjust the snogs hours on the alarm, which will definitely add more flexibility than you now. (In iOS 18, you can only turn on or off the feature of the snatch -9-minute-9 minutes of time.) In fact, you will be able to adjust the snounds on the alarm between 1 and 15 minutes, depending on how much extra shuts you want to squeeze into the eye.
Visited places in maps
I like to find new places and discover restaurants, places and other points of interest that I can share with others or go back to myself. The trouble comes from remembering the exact name or location, although some of these estimates are a feature that comes on the maps in iOS 26 figures.
In the tournaments, wherever you use maps, works as a type of storage vault, which is category (restaurants, nature sites and other places you travel on your journey) and login in terms of city. Along with tour spaces, I no longer need to remember the specific street or name of this taco space in Los Angeles that is a few blocks from the California Science Center – it should be in the maps.
At this point it is unclear whether the visiting places will be logged only at the places you have received or will you be able to go to the maps app and flag at a place where you are. But this test will be part of the entertainment to take iOS 26 for spin and see how all these new features work.