Overview
- A new Liquid Glass setting lets users choose Clear or Tinted modes, increasing opacity and contrast in apps and Lock Screen notifications.
- Alarms and timers now use a slide-to-stop gesture, and a Camera setting allows disabling the Lock Screen swipe shortcut to prevent accidental launches.
- Background Security Improvements revamps rapid patching by automatically installing critical security fixes between full iOS updates.
- Apple Intelligence adds Danish, Dutch, Norwegian, Portuguese (Portugal), Swedish, Turkish, Traditional Chinese and Vietnamese, while AirPods Live Translation gains Japanese, Korean, Italian and both forms of Mandarin.
- iPadOS 26.1 restores the Slide Over multitasking view, and the updates are available now for iPhone 11 and later and iPhone SE (2nd generation) via Settings > General > Software Update.