{"id":513959,"date":"2026-03-10T00:22:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T00:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/513959\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T00:22:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T00:22:09","slug":"everything-new-in-ios-26-4-beta-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/513959\/","title":{"rendered":"Everything New in iOS 26.4 Beta 4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apple is continuing to test the iOS 26.4 beta, and the latest update is now available for developers and public beta testers. As testing goes on, there are fewer new features in each beta, but today\u2019s release adds new emoji characters and a few other changes.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/ios-26-4-yellow.jpg\"   alt=\"ios 26 4 yellow\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1036851\"\/><\/p>\n<p>New Emoji<\/p>\n<p>Apple added new emoji characters, including trombone, treasure chest, distorted face, hairy creature, fight cloud, orca, and landslide.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Latest iOS 26\" width=\"2168\" height=\"1219\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1039716 lazyload\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Latest-iOS-26.4-Beta-Adds-New-Emoji-Characters-Feature-1.jpg\"  data- loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>There are also new skin tone modifiers people wrestling and dancers with bunny ears, as well as a gender neutral option for the ballet dancer emoji.<\/p>\n<p>Reduce Bright Effects<\/p>\n<p>Apple renamed the prior Reduce Highlighting Effects Accessibility setting to \u201cReduce Bright Effects,\u201d and explained what it does.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"ios 26 4 accessibility reduce bright effects\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1125\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1039818 lazyload\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/ios-26-4-accessibility-reduce-bright-effects.jpg\"  data- loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>Apple says the feature &#8220;minimizes highlighting and flashing when interacting with onscreen elements, such as buttons or the keyboard.<\/p>\n<p>RCS Encrypted Messaging<\/p>\n<p>Apple has removed the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/guide\/rcs\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">RCS<\/a> end-to-end encryption beta in the fourth beta of iOS 26.4 after testing it in the prior three betas. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2026\/02\/23\/ios-26-4-beta-2-android-iphone-e2ee\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Apple already said<\/a> that end-to-end encryption for \u200cRCS\u200c would not launch in the iOS 26.4 update, and would instead be introduced in the future.<\/p>\n<p>Apple tested end-to-end encryption for iPhone-to-iPhone \u200cRCS\u200c conversations, and iPhone-to-Android conversations. iMessage communications are already encrypted, but in a future iOS update, full implementation of \u200cRCS\u200c encryption will mean that iPhone-to-Android text message conversations have the same level of encryption.<\/p>\n<p>New Device Support<\/p>\n<p>iOS 26.4 and iPadOS 26.4 beta 4 are the first betas that are able to be installed on the new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/roundup\/iphone-17e\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">iPhone 17e<\/a> and M4 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/roundup\/ipad-air\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">iPad Air<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>More New Features<\/p>\n<p>We have a list of all features found in prior betas in our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/guide\/ios-26-4-beta-features\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">iOS 26.4 feature guide<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Apple is continuing to test the iOS 26.4 beta, and the latest update is now available for developers&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":513960,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[10183,165,74],"class_list":["post-513959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mobile","tag-ios-26","tag-mobile","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513959","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=513959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513959\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/513960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=513959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=513959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=513959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}