{"id":231325,"date":"2025-10-17T10:54:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T10:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/231325\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T10:54:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T10:54:14","slug":"5-new-features-your-iphone-will-get-in-ios-26-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/231325\/","title":{"rendered":"5+ New Features Your iPhone Will Get in iOS 26.1"},"content":{"rendered":"

Apple is currently beta testing iOS 26.1, which will be the first major update to the iOS 26<\/a> operating system. It’s not going to bring the new version of Siri<\/a> that we’ve been waiting for, but it does include useful new features and interface changes.<\/p>\n

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We’ve rounded up all of the features that have been in iOS 26.1 so far.<\/p>\n

Alarms and Timers<\/p>\n

Alarms and timers that you set up in the Clock app now have a slide to stop button rather than a tap to stop button on the Lock Screen. You can snooze an alarm with a tap, but to turn it off entirely, you need to use a slide gesture.<\/p>\n

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The change makes it much harder to dismiss an alarm when you’re trying to tap on the snooze button.<\/p>\n

New Apple Intelligence Languages<\/p>\n

Apple Intelligence<\/a> is now available in Danish, Dutch, Norwegian, Portuguese (Portugal), Swedish, Turkish, Chinese (Traditional), and Vietnamese.<\/p>\n

AirPods Live Translation Languages<\/p>\n

AirPods Live Translation works with additional languages in iOS 26.1, including Japanese, Korean, Italian, and Chinese (both Mandarin Traditional and Simplified).<\/p>\n

Apple Music<\/p>\n

You can swipe on the music player in Apple Music<\/a> to switch songs. Just slide a finger over where the song title is listed, and it’ll go to the next song or back to the previous song.<\/p>\n

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Apple TV App<\/p>\n

The Apple TV<\/a> app has a new, more colorful icon that adopts the Liquid Glass aesthetic. <\/p>\n

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Fitness App<\/p>\n

You can create custom workouts in the Fitness app on iPhone<\/a>. There are options for selecting workout type, estimated Active Calories, effort, duration, and start time.<\/p>\n

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There were workout creation options before, but they were more structured than the open, custom creation options that are in iOS 26.1.<\/p>\n

Settings App<\/p>\n

Apple changed the alignment of icons and text in the Settings app. All settings with headers that feature text now have that text aligned to the left instead of center aligned. It’s a small change that makes a big visual difference.<\/p>\n

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This includes General, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, Cellular, Personal Hotspot, Accessibility, and more.<\/p>\n

Home Screen Folders<\/p>\n

When you tap into a folder on the Home Screen<\/a>, the name of the folder at the top is left aligned instead of center aligned, matching the changes made in the Settings app.<\/p>\n

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Phone<\/p>\n

The Phone keypad now uses Liquid Glass for the numbers.<\/p>\n

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Photos<\/p>\n

The slider for scrubbing through videos in the Photos<\/a> app has been updated.<\/p>\n

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The navigation bar also has a slightly more frosted look that makes it easier to see on light backgrounds.<\/p>\n

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The interface for managing multiple photos that you’ve selected has been tweaked slightly. Play as Slideshow, Favorite, and Hide are now at the top of the menu.<\/p>\n

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Safari<\/p>\n

The Tab Bar (Bottom) in Safari is wider with less padding around the edges. In Reduce Transparency mode, there’s more padding, so it no longer looks odd.<\/p>\n

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Background Security Improvements<\/p>\n

The Privacy and Security section of the Settings app now has a toggle to automatically download and install security improvements. It’s a revamp of the prior Rapid Security Responses feature.<\/p>\n

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Display Settings<\/p>\n

The Display section of the Settings app now has iOS 26-themed wallpaper instead of iOS 18 wallpaper.<\/p>\n

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Liquid Glass<\/p>\n

The light refraction effect around apps is now more subtle with darker icon colors and background colors.<\/p>\n

Wallpaper<\/p>\n

When setting a wallpaper on the Lock Screen, instructions like Pinch to Crop show up momentarily and then disappear, rather than being shown all the time.<\/p>\n

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Display Accessibility<\/p>\n

Under the Display and Text Size section in the Accessibility settings, there is a new “Display Borders” toggle. It adds a border to all buttons, and replaces the prior “Button Shapes” setting.<\/p>\n

Local Capture Settings<\/p>\n

There’s now an option to set a location in the Files app for audio and video recordings from calls. It’s available by going to Settings > General > Local Capture.<\/p>\n

Bonus: iPadOS 26.1<\/p>\n

Many of the changes above are in iPadOS 26.1 too, and iPadOS 26.1 also makes some changes to multitasking.<\/p>\n

Slide Over<\/p>\n

With iPadOS 26.1, Apple is reintroducing Slide Over. Slide Over works alongside the window-based iPadOS 26<\/a> multitasking functionality, so you can have multiple windows open and still swipe over to quickly access a Slide Over app.<\/p>\n

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You can only have one Slide Over app at a time in iPadOS 26.1, and you can use the feature by tapping on the green window resizing button and toggling on Enter Slide Over.<\/p>\n

External Microphones on iPad<\/p>\n

There’s now an option to adjust input gain on the iPad<\/a> when using an external microphone.<\/p>\n

Download iOS 26.1<\/p>\n

iOS 26.1 is available for both developers and public beta testers, so if you want to get your hands on the new features now, you can. It’s easiest to sign up for public beta testing by visiting Apple’s beta website<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Compatibility<\/p>\n

iOS 26.1 is available on all iPhones that support \u200ciOS 26\u200c.<\/p>\n

Release Date<\/p>\n

It’s likely that Apple will release iOS 26.1 toward the end of October or the beginning of November.<\/p>\n

More Features<\/p>\n

Know of something new in iOS 26.1 that we missed? Let us know in the comments below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Apple is currently beta testing iOS 26.1, which will be the first major update to the iOS 26…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":179296,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[831,10183,165,74],"class_list":{"0":"post-231325","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mobile","8":"tag-featured","9":"tag-ios-26","10":"tag-mobile","11":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231325\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}