Overview
- Apple seeded fourth developer and public betas for iOS, iPadOS, macOS Tahoe, tvOS, watchOS, and visionOS, including builds 23B5073a for iOS/iPadOS and 25B5072a for macOS.
- A new system control lets users choose Clear or Tinted transparency for the Liquid Glass design across iPhone, iPad, and Mac.
- Apple Intelligence adds Danish, Dutch, Norwegian, Portuguese (Portugal), Swedish, Turkish, Chinese (Traditional), and Vietnamese, and AirPods Live Translation gains Chinese (Mandarin simplified and traditional), Italian, Japanese, and Korean.
- iPadOS 26.1 brings back Slide Over in a single‑app, resizable form, while iOS adds Slide to Stop for alarms, a toggle to disable the Lock Screen camera swipe, a Music swipe gesture for track changes, a Photos video scrubber, and clearer Local Capture settings.
- Apple’s TV service now appears as Apple TV with a new app icon, and beta code continues to reference Model Context Protocol and external generative providers without user‑facing features yet, with a public rollout expected in late October or early November.