{"id":280832,"date":"2026-02-04T20:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T20:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/280832\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T20:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T20:00:09","slug":"apple-releases-ios-26-3-rc-for-iphone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/280832\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple releases iOS 26.3 RC for iPhone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t<img width=\"1600\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/iOS-26.3-rc.jpg\" class=\"skip-lazy wp-post-image\" alt=\"iOS 26.3 release candidate\"  decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Apple has released the iOS 26.3 Release Candidate for iPhone. iOS 26.3 introduces an easier way to <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2025\/12\/08\/apple-and-google-team-up-to-make-iphone-and-android-switching-easier\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">switch<\/a> between Android and iPhone, tweaks to the Astronomy and Weather <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2025\/12\/16\/ios-26-3-adds-new-iphone-wallpaper-section-expands-gallery\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">wallpaper gallery<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2025\/12\/15\/ios-26-3-beta-notification-forwarding\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">more<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The update follows the official release of<a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2025\/12\/12\/apple-releases-ios-26-2-with-liquid-glass-tweaks-carplay-changes-much-more\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0iOS 26.2 for iPhone<\/a>\u00a0in December and iOS 26.2.1 in January. That update introduced new ways to tweak Liquid Glass design elements, more CarPlay customization options, and much more.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"512\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/ios-26-3-wallpapers-weather-astronomy.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1032698\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Looking beyond iOS 26.3, we expect iOS 26.4 to be the first version that includes the long-overdue upgraded version of Siri. Apple and Google recently <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2026\/01\/12\/apple-confirms-googles-gemini-will-power-new-siri-features\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">announced<\/a> plans to use Gemini as the engine behind the upgraded version of Siri and Apple Intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>That appears to be the most exciting thing about iOS 26.3 \u2026 we\u2019re one step closer to the latest version of new Siri.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/google.com\/preferences\/source?q=https:\/\/9to5mac.com\" aria-label=\"Add 9to5Mac as a preferred source on Google\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"google-preferred-source-badge-dark\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1757113987_717_google-preferred-source-badge-dark.png\" alt=\"Add 9to5Mac as a preferred source on Google\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"google-preferred-source-badge-light\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1757113987_373_google-preferred-source-badge-light.png\" alt=\"Add 9to5Mac as a preferred source on Google\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"disclaimer-affiliate\">FTC: We use income earning auto affiliate links. <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/about\/#affiliate\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">More.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/49DHuGz\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1024348\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/nomad-banner2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"205\"\/><\/a>\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Apple has released the iOS 26.3 Release Candidate for iPhone. iOS 26.3 introduces an easier way to switch&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":280833,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[61,60,202,80],"class_list":{"0":"post-280832","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mobile","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-mobile","11":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280832\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/280833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}