Overview
- Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reports Apple plans to push iOS 26.1 to users today, with the usual caveat that last‑minute delays are possible.
- iOS 26.1 adds a Clear/Tinted toggle to tone down Liquid Glass transparency, plus refinements like slide to stop for alarms and timers, Music MiniPlayer swipe to change tracks, a refreshed Apple TV icon, and expanded language support for Apple Intelligence and AirPods Live Translation.
- Some builds also surface a new Background Security Improvements setting that can auto‑install interim security patches between full updates, based on beta findings.
- The first iOS 26.2 developer beta is expected as soon as Tuesday, alongside matching betas for iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, tvOS, and visionOS, and early seeds are not expected to include major new features.
- Apple has reiterated U.S. passport support for Wallet before year‑end and promised end‑to‑end RCS encryption in a future update, while a public iOS 26.2 release is widely expected in December after several weeks of testing.