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iOS 26 beta 6 adds five brand new iPhone ringtones, listen here

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-11-29 05:47:25

iOS 26 looks set to greatly expand the ringtone options for the iPhone. A previous beta included one remixed version of the default Reflection ringtone, but now iOS 26 beta 6 has added another five brand new alternatives. iOS 26 now offers six alternate versions of default ringtone In earlier beta versions of iOS 26, Apple included a single new ringtone for users. It was labeled ‘Alt 1’ under the default Reflection ringtone. Now, that new option has been given a proper name: Reflected. But m

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Everything new in iOS 26 beta 6

9to5mac.com Zac Hall 2025-11-29 05:47:26

iOS 26 beta 6 is out now for iPhones on the developer beta release cycle. Below we’re collecting all of the iOS 26 beta 6 changes compared to the previous version. iOS 26 beta 6 changes First, users will notice a new onboarding experience that explains the redesign, changes to the Camera app, and more. iOS 26 onboarding in beta 6 pic.twitter.com/fuvmTzoNHO — Zac Hall (@apollozac) August 11, 2025 Apple also appears to have removed the option to revert back to the classic swipe direction in Ca

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Apple brings OpenAI's GPT-5 to iOS and macOS

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-11-29 14:51:53

OpenAI's GPT-5 model went live for most ChatGPT users this week, but lots of people use ChatGPT not through OpenAI's interface but through other platforms or tools. One of the largest deployments is iOS, the iPhone operating system, which allows users to make certain queries via GPT-4o. It turns out those users won't have to wait long for the latest model: Apple will switch to GPT-5 in iOS 26, iPadOS 26, and macOS Tahoe 26, according to 9to5Mac. Apple has not officially announced when those OS

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iPhone 17 Pro knockoff running iOS 18 lookalike arrives a month early

9to5mac.com Zac Hall 2025-11-30 00:28:27

It’s not hard to find knockoff hardware imitating name-brand electronics. Still, this one takes the cake. Sonny Dickson shares photos of an alleged iPhone 17 Pro clone running a version of Android that is skinned to look like iPhone software. The iPhone 17 isn’t even out yet… but there’s already a fake one running Android, Not a perfect copy, but still wild. pic.twitter.com/7UOBCUz8W5 — Sonny Dickson (@SonnyDickson) August 11, 2025 Well, the old iPhone software, I guess. The actual iPhone 17

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This iOS 26 update ruined the iPhone camera app for me - then Apple saved the day

zdnet.com Kerry Wan 2025-11-30 16:55:13

Kerry Wan/ZDNET ZDNET's key takeaways iOS 26 introduces a new gesture behavior to the iPhone camera switcher. This shift in app navigation has caused frustration among pros and casual users. On the latest dev beta, Apple has added a toggle to revert the behavior to the original. While many would say that the public development of iOS 26 has been rocky, one recent feature, introduced in the latest developer beta, has given me renewed faith in Apple. When the company first launched the iOS 2

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This iOS 26 Toggle 'Fixes' a Camera App Redesign Issue You Might Have Noticed

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-30 15:00:03

Apple released the second public beta of iOS 26 on Thursday, and the beta brings a new Liquid Glass design, call screening and more features to the iPhones of developers and beta testers. The beta also introduces a redesigned Camera app that simplifies some aspects of the app. The Camera app revamp also inverts how you switch between different camera modes, like video, and it's horrible. After years of swiping in one direction to get to a photo mode, imagine my surprise when I swiped and was se

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iPhone Users, Find Calls Faster With This Trick

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-11-30 04:00:05

It can be frustrating to scroll through your iPhone's Recent calls tab to find the right voicemail or to remember when you talked to someone last. But when Apple introduced iOS 18 in 2024, it included a trick that let you find calls faster in your recent call history. That update brought a lot of new features, like customizable home screens and RCS messaging, as well as a search bar in your iPhone's Phone app. This lets you easily search your call history and voicemails. Before iOS 18, your Pho

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5 iOS 26 features that made updating my iPhone worthwhile (and how to try them)

zdnet.com Lance Whitney 2025-11-30 00:30:17

Kerry Wan/ZDNET Apple has been busy prepping iOS 26 for its likely debut in September. Until then, the iPhone's upcoming new OS has been accessible for anyone to try via a developer beta (now up to version 5) and the initial public beta. Though iOS 26 still has at least a month of tweaks before it's finalized, the beta flavors already provide a peek at what to expect. You can download iOS 26 beta on your iPhone now. Here's how to install it -- and which models support it. Also: My biggest reg

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Apple brings OpenAI’s GPT-5 to iOS and macOS

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-11-30 20:30:44

OpenAI's GPT-5 model went live for most ChatGPT users this week, but lots of people use ChatGPT not through OpenAI's interface but through other platforms or tools. One of the largest deployments is iOS, the iPhone operating system, which allows users to make certain queries via GPT-4o. It turns out those users won't have to wait long for the latest model: Apple will switch to GPT-5 in iOS 26, iPadOS 26, and macOS Tahoe 26, according to 9to5Mac. Apple has not officially announced when those OS

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iOS 26 public beta is available to download: Everything you need to know about the new iPhone and iPad update

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-01 00:18:07

Gaining access to iOS 26 on your iPhone is getting closer, but the release is still over a month away, coming this fall. But you can start testing the new features now by downloading and installing Apple's public beta, which CEO Tim Cook recently said is (along with the other current beta operating systems) "by far the most popular developer betas we’ve had," 9to5Mac reports. You can also take a look at our preview of the iOS 26 public beta release, which shows off the fresh home and lock screen

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My biggest regret after updating my iPhone to iOS 26 (and how to fix it)

zdnet.com Kerry Wan 2025-11-30 22:52:00

Kerry Wan/ZDNET ZDNET's key takeaways iOS 26 introduces a new gesture behavior to the iPhone camera switcher. This shift in app navigation has caused frustration among pros and casual users. On the latest dev beta, Apple has added a toggle to revert the behavior to the original. While many would say that the public development of iOS 26 has been rocky, one recent feature, introduced in the latest developer beta, has given me renewed faith in Apple. When the company first launched the iOS 2

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Here's a list of all compatible iPhones that can download the Apple iOS 26 beta update today

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-01 05:36:02

Apple's iOS 26 is coming this fall, giving your iPhone's operating system a big upgrade. My favorite is the visual update, called Liquid Glass — it's like the better-executed version of Windows Vista. We spent two weeks test-driving it — you can check out our detailed hands-on iOS 26 preview, or you can try it out yourself by downloading and installing the public beta. That software is a more stable iteration of the separate developer version, which recently hit the beta 5 waypoint, and offers a

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You Don't Need iOS 26 to Get This Dreamy Wallpaper on Your iPhone Now

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-01 04:28:25

Apple's upcoming iOS 26 will introduce a wallpaper design this fall with spatial features that seem to move in accordance with your iPhone and developers and beta testers can access that wallpaper now. But you don't need to be running the iOS 26 beta to get Apple's latest wallpaper on your iPhone -- however, you'll miss out on spatial features if you're not running iOS 26. The latest wallpaper is called Here's to the Dreamers and was made to celebrate creators from Southeast Asia. "Let every gl

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Five iOS 26 features I already can't live without - and how to access them

zdnet.com Lance Whitney 2025-12-03 03:00:21

Kerry Wan/ZDNET Apple has been busy prepping iOS 26 for its likely debut in September. Until then, the iPhone's upcoming new OS has been accessible for anyone to try via a developer beta (now up to version 5) and the initial public beta. Though iOS 26 still has at least a month of tweaks before it's finalized, the beta flavors already provide a peek at what to expect. You can download iOS 26 beta on your iPhone now. Here's how to install it -- and which models support it. Also: The best MagSa

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iOS 26 beta adds surprise Apple Maps feature that could prove very useful

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-12-04 05:12:43

Apple Maps has some compelling new features in iOS 26, but it seems there’s even more coming, as the beta now supports a powerful new feature that Apple never announced: natural language search with Apple Intelligence. Apple Maps gains AI-powered natural language search in iOS 26 Early last month, iOS 26 beta code revealed that Apple was working on adding natural language search to Maps. However, code leaks regularly expose features in development that may not ever ship. In this case though,

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iOS 26 and iPadOS 26 public beta 2 now available

9to5mac.com Zac Hall 2025-12-04 10:22:05

Apple kicked off the iOS 26 and iPadOS 26 public beta just in the nick of time last month. The company met its self-imposed July deadline after shipping four developer betas instead of the usual three. With Apple’s redesign direction back on track, we’re now seeing the second iOS 26 and iPadOS 26 public beta release become available. iOS 26 and iPadOS 26 public beta 2 For iPhone and iPad users on the public beta train, simply go to the Settings app > General section > Software Update to look f

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Microsoft has ended 'active development' on Contraband

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-04 10:53:33

The upheaval continues for gaming at Microsoft. The latest victim appears to be Contraband, a planned release from Avalanche Studios with Xbox Game Studios as publisher. The co-op open-world game from the studio behind the entertaining Just Cause series was teased in a brief, mostly atmospheric trailer at E3 2021. But very little had been heard since about the project, and it seems the axe is currently hanging pretty precariously above Contraband. "Active development has now stopped while we ev

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iOS 26’s Notes app adds a clever new way to use its many tools

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-12-04 15:30:44

Apple Notes gets more powerful every year, and iOS 26 adds its own batch of new features. With new capabilities comes the threat of feature bloat, but Notes has a clever solution that makes its ever-growing set of tools more easily accessible in iOS 26. iOS 26 gives Apple Notes an ‘adaptive toolbar’ Notes was once an extremely simple iPhone app. Features were minimal, as Apple prioritized just making it a quick place to jot down notes. But at some point, the company started aggressively build

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My top 5 favorite iOS 26 features so far - and how to try them all now

zdnet.com Lance Whitney 2025-12-04 15:51:15

Kerry Wan/ZDNET Apple has been busy prepping iOS 26 for its likely debut in September. Until then, the iPhone's upcoming new OS has been accessible for anyone to try via a developer beta (now up to version 5) and the initial public beta. Though iOS 26 still has at least a month of tweaks before it's finalized, the beta flavors already provide a peek at what to expect. You can download iOS 26 beta on your iPhone now. Here's how to install it -- and which models support it. Also: The best MagSa

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Want a Little More Sleep? Try This iOS 26 Alarm Trick

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-05 20:00:09

Apple released the first public beta of iOS 26 on July 24, which brought a new Liquid Glass design, call screening, and other features to developers' and beta testers' iPhones. It also updated the alarm feature in the clock app so you can change your snooze length, affording you a few more z's before you get up and tackle the day. Prior to this change, if you hit your iPhone alarm's snooze feature, you would always get an extra 9 minutes of shut-eye. With the iOS 26 beta, you can customize your

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iOS 26 gives AirPods charging case a new, expanded lighting system

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-12-06 10:04:25

It’s become common for AirPods to get new features with each major version of iOS. That’s true with iOS 26, especially for AirPods Pro 2 and AirPods 4. But it seems iOS 26 also introduces a rarity: an update to how the AirPods charging case works. One of iOS 26’s new AirPods-related features involves the battery. There are new charging notifications that let you know when you should charge, and when your AirPods are fully charged. These are similar to existing Dynamic Island battery indicators,

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CarPlay in iOS 26 has a new, improved solution for phone calls

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-12-06 14:43:53

After years of minimal changes, CarPlay is getting a huge update this fall. Among the variety of big and small new features in iOS 26, CarPlay has a much improved solution for how incoming phone calls are handled. New compact view for incoming phone calls won’t get in the way of navigation If you get many phone calls, you’ve likely encountered a dilemma while driving. You’re navigating somewhere, with Maps guiding the way, when a phone call comes in. In some cases, this probably isn’t a big

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Apple iOS 26 beta is available: Everything you need to know about the new iPhone update

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-06 15:30:11

The wait for upgrading your iPhone to iOS 26 keeps getting shorter, but we're still over a month out from the release, which is expected this fall. But if you want to start testing out the new features today, you can download and install Apple's public beta, which CEO Tim Cook recently said is (along with the other current beta operating systems) "by far the most popular developer betas we’ve had," 9to5Mac reports. You can also take a look at our preview of the iOS 26 public beta release, which

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Can you download the iOS 26 beta today? Here's a comprehensive list of all compatible iPhones

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-06 15:43:36

Your iPhone's operating system is getting a big upgrade this fall with the release of iOS 26. One of the better changes — and also Apple's largest visual update in years — is the new Liquid Glass design (think Windows Vista, but arguably more thoughtful). We spent two weeks test-driving it — you can check out our detailed hands-on iOS 26 preview, or you can try it out yourself by downloading and installing the public beta. That software is a more stable iteration of the separate developer versio

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NASA explains how it keeps the Curiosity rover running, 13 years later

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-08 05:45:30

Thirteen years ago, the Curiosity rover landed on Mars, inside Gale crater in particular. It was originally sent to the red planet for a two-year mission, but it was extended indefinitely just a few months into its operations. The rover has several goals, most of which are meant to help scientists determine whether Mars could ever have supported life in the past. And while it's still very much operational and doing science, NASA has had to make adjustments and give it new capabilities to ensure

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iOS 26 beta adds a cute new low battery animation

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-12-09 05:05:08

Among the many tidbits included in today’s iOS 26 beta release is a new notification style that pops up when the iPhone reaches low battery levels. Here’s what that animation looks like. Today, Apple released iOS 26 beta 5, with a few visual changes such as a new AirDrop icon, and multiple splash screens that come up when you open apps such as Apple Music, or Reminders for the first time. Alongside these changes, there is also a new low battery notification that shows a red circle animation th

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Apple stops signing iOS 18.5, blocking downgrade from iOS 18.6

9to5mac.com Zac Hall 2025-12-09 05:43:17

It’s been just over a week since Apple released iOS 18.6. Since the iPhone software update has shipped without issue, Apple has stopped signing the older iOS 18.5 software version. Apple stops signing versions of iOS due to security issues being disclosed in older software versions and patched in newer software versions. Apple released iOS 18.6 on July 29. The update included bug fixes, security improvements, and a fix for a performance issue with the Photos app’s Memories feature. The update

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Apple’s latest Liquid Glass design shows it won’t back down with iOS 26

9to5mac.com Ryan Christoffel 2025-12-09 10:10:59

iOS 26 is a feature-packed update, but the biggest change is easily the new Liquid Glass design. And the latest iOS 26 beta shows that despite criticism, Apple isn’t backing down from its original Liquid Glass vision. The evolution of Liquid Glass in iOS 26 so far Every summer, the same story plays out with Apple software: Apple unveils its major new releases in June. It iterates on features and designs throughout the summer beta cycle. Then the finished product ships in September. This year

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iOS 26 beta 5 adds ‘Mode Switching’ toggle to revert Camera swipe direction

9to5mac.com Zac Hall 2025-12-09 20:17:06

iOS 26 includes a redesigned Camera app that changes how you switch between shooting modes. As of iOS 26 beta 5, the redesign comes with a new toggle in Settings as well. In addition to changing the visual appearance, Apple has changed the interaction model for how you switch between shooting modes. Previously, the visual metaphor for switching modes was like moving a physical dial with different shooting modes under your finger. If you swiped left, you moved to the dial setting to the right.

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Mail no longer buries the ‘Select’ button in iOS 26 beta 5

9to5mac.com Zac Hall 2025-12-09 20:28:20

A small but annoying change in iOS 26 beta has been driving Mail app users bananas since June. As of beta 5, however, Apple has reverted that change and avoided making even more people complain. The issue? iOS 26 beta 1 through 4 required an additional tap before entering select mode to choose multiple emails to mark as read or archive. It doesn’t sound like a big deal when you put it like that, but the feedback was more about a general trend of burying primary controls behind “…” buttons. As

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iOS 26 gives AirPods charging case a new, expanded lighting system

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