iOS 26.0

StoreKit added a one-time offer payment mode, JWS-signed promotional offers, and SubscriptionOfferView merchandising.

Recorded at Beta 1

1. [1] iOS & iPadOS 26 Release Notes — beta-1 snapshot · StoreKit — New Features; 142501142, 143395736, 145251635

HealthKit added APIs for reading a user’s medications and logged medication dose events with authorization.

Recorded at Beta 1

1. [1] iOS & iPadOS 26 Release Notes — beta-1 snapshot · HealthKit — New Features; 114279172

App Store product pages gained an Accessibility section describing supported accessibility features before download.

Recorded at Beta 1

1. [1] iOS & iPadOS 26 Release Notes — beta-1 snapshot · App Store — New Features; 138344118

iOS 26 Beta 1 appeared on 2025-06-09 as build 23A5260n.

Recorded at Beta 1

1. [1] iOS 26.0 beta 1 (23A5260n) · iOS 26.0 Beta 1; build 23A5260n

The first iOS and iPadOS 26 seed introduced support for Metal 4.

Recorded at Beta 1

1. [1] iOS & iPadOS 26 Release Notes — beta-1 snapshot · Metal — New Features; 113781091

HKWorkoutSession and HKLiveWorkoutBuilder became available to apps on iOS and iPadOS for live workout tracking.

Recorded at Beta 1

1. [1] iOS & iPadOS 26 Release Notes — beta-1 snapshot · HealthKit — New Features; 125746390

IKEv2 VPN configurations could no longer use DES, 3DES, SHA1-96, SHA1-160, or Diffie-Hellman groups below 14.

Recorded at Beta 1

1. [1] iOS & iPadOS 26 Release Notes — beta-1 snapshot · NetworkExtension — Deprecations; 148767790

The Foundation Models framework opened direct developer access to the on-device large language model used by Apple Intelligence.

Recorded at Beta 1

1. [1] iOS & iPadOS 26 Release Notes — beta-1 snapshot · Apple Intelligence — New Features; 139996377

Journaling Suggestions created on iPhone could sync through iCloud to the Journal app and participating journaling apps on iPad.

Recorded at Beta 1

1. [1] iOS & iPadOS 26 Release Notes — beta-1 snapshot · Journaling Suggestions — New Features; 152322897

The updated Beta 1 build supplied a restore path for affected iPhone 15 and iPhone 16 models that could show a low-battery symbol and fail to start after the original seed.

Recorded at Beta 1 v2

1. [1] iOS & iPadOS 26 Release Notes — beta-1-v2 snapshot · General — Resolved Issues; 153071880

iOS 26 Beta 1 v2 appeared on 2025-06-13 as build 23A5260u. This build was limited to the iPhone 15 and iPhone 16 product families.

Recorded at Beta 1 v2

1. [1] iOS 26 beta (23A5260n | 23A5260u) · iOS 26.0 Beta 1 v2; build 23A5260u

A sent translated message was translated again after the sender edited it.

Recorded at Beta 2

1. [1] iOS & iPadOS 26 Release Notes — beta-2 snapshot · Messages — Resolved Issues; 149401758

Apple fixed stalled or failed asset-pack downloads, missing status updates, and delayed TestFlight asset refreshes while retaining a large-pack installation limitation.

Recorded at Beta 2

1. [1] iOS & iPadOS 26 Release Notes — beta-2 snapshot · Background Assets — Resolved and Known Issues; 143281558, 151498902, 151647839, 151942388, 153128086

Wi‑Fi Aware connections no longer terminated unexpectedly after 120 seconds.

Recorded at Beta 2

1. [1] iOS & iPadOS 26 Release Notes — beta-2 snapshot · Wi-Fi Aware — Resolved Issues; 152279075

AuthenticationServices could limit passkey-registration UI to cases where the device was immediately able to create a passkey.

Recorded at Beta 2

1. [1] iOS & iPadOS 26 Release Notes — beta-2 snapshot · AuthenticationServices — New Features; preferImmediatelyAvailableCredentials; 150688929

iOS 26 Beta 2 appeared on 2025-06-23 as build 23A5276f.

Recorded at Beta 2

1. [1] iOS 26.0 beta 2 (23A5276f) · iOS 26.0 Beta 2; build 23A5276f

Upgrading from Beta 1 to Beta 2 could remove depth from Lock Screen wallpapers and posters using the adaptive clock.

Recorded at Beta 2

1. [1] iOS & iPadOS 26 Release Notes — beta-2 snapshot · Lock Screen — Known Issues; 153005914

The HealthKit medications authorization sheet could be dismissed when no medication required authorization.

Recorded at Beta 2

1. [1] iOS & iPadOS 26 Release Notes — beta-2 snapshot · HealthKit — Resolved Issues; 152094574

Recovery Assistant could diagnose and attempt to repair a device that did not start normally.

Recorded at Beta 2

1. [1] iOS & iPadOS 26 Release Notes — beta-2 snapshot · Overview — Recovery Assistant; 151856202

Apple fixed the Beta 2 regression that removed depth from adaptive-clock Lock Screen wallpapers and posters.

Recorded at Beta 3

1. [1] iOS & iPadOS 26 Release Notes — beta-3 snapshot · Lock Screen — Resolved Issues; 153005914

MetalFX temporal and denoised temporal upscaling began working with MTL4CommandBuffer.

Recorded at Beta 3

1. [1] iOS & iPadOS 26 Release Notes — beta-3 snapshot · MetalFX — Resolved Issues; 146436460, 146436741

iOS 26 Beta 3 appeared on 2025-07-07 as build 23A5287g.

Recorded at Beta 3

1. [1] iOS 26.0 beta 3 (23A5287g) · iOS 26.0 Beta 3; build 23A5287g

Foundation Models fixed public Generable declarations and several rate-limit and guided-generation reliability problems.

Recorded at Beta 3

1. [1] iOS & iPadOS 26 Release Notes — beta-3 snapshot · Foundation Models framework — Resolved Issues; 152681332, 153216183, 153216632

Object Capture added a downloadable reconstruction model that improved photogrammetry quality for low-texture objects.

Recorded at Beta 3

1. [1] iOS & iPadOS 26 Release Notes — beta-3 snapshot · Object Capture — New Features; 145220451

Wi‑Fi Aware connection attempts could succeed while the browser process was not running.

Recorded at Beta 3

1. [1] iOS & iPadOS 26 Release Notes — beta-3 snapshot · Wi-Fi Aware — Resolved Issues; 152336071

Some prompts could produce unexpected responses or erroneous guardrail-violation errors in the Foundation Models framework.

Recorded at Beta 4

1. [1] iOS & iPadOS 26 Release Notes — beta-4 snapshot · Foundation Models framework — Known Issues; 152318091, 155273863

Swift Charts added Chart3D for RealityKit-powered three-dimensional data and mathematical-surface visualization on iOS.

Recorded at Beta 4

1. [1] iOS & iPadOS 26 Release Notes — beta-4 snapshot · Swift Charts — New Features; 148361385

The Return key could stop responding on Japanese and Chinese 10-key keyboards after rotating from landscape to portrait.

Recorded at Beta 4

1. [1] iOS & iPadOS 26 Release Notes — beta-4 snapshot · Keyboards — Known Issues; 154163977

Connection-related NWError values could expose a nil Wi‑Fi Aware property.

Recorded at Beta 4

1. [1] iOS & iPadOS 26 Release Notes — beta-4 snapshot · Wi-Fi Aware — Known Issues; 153100140

iOS 26 Beta 4 appeared on 2025-07-22 as build 23A5297i.

Recorded at Beta 4

1. [1] iOS 26.0 beta 4 (23A5297i) · iOS 26.0 Beta 4; build 23A5297i

A July 25 corrective build for the iPhone 11 family restored all columns of app icons inside Home Screen folders.

Recorded at Public Beta 1

1. [1] iOS & iPadOS 26 Release Notes — beta-5 snapshot · Apps — Resolved Issues; 156425266
2. [2] Apple Seeds iOS 26 Public Beta for iPhone 11 Users · iPhone 11 build 23A5297n and Home Screen folder correction

Apple opened the first iOS 26 public beta on July 24, 2025, using build 23A5297m. The iPhone 11 family received a separate corrective build the next day.

Recorded at Public Beta 1

1. [1] Apple releases revised iOS 26 and iPadOS 26 Beta 4 for iPhone and iPad · Build 23A5297m and revised Beta 4 relationship
2. [2] Apple Releases First iOS 26 and iPadOS 26 Public Betas · First iOS 26 and iPadOS 26 public betas; July 24

iOS 26 Beta 4 v2 appeared on 2025-07-24 as build 23A5297m.

Recorded at Beta 4 v2

1. [1] Apple releases revised iOS 26 and iPadOS 26 Beta 4 for iPhone and iPad · Revised iOS 26 Beta 4; build 23A5297m

The Foundation Models content-tagging use case expanded beyond English and exposed supported-language discovery.

Recorded at Beta 5

1. [1] iOS & iPadOS 26 Release Notes — beta-5 snapshot · Foundation Models framework — New Features; 155801948

LanguageModelSession.prewarm() began caching instructions and prompt prefixes to reduce time to the first generated token.

Recorded at Beta 5

1. [1] iOS & iPadOS 26 Release Notes — beta-5 snapshot · Foundation Models framework — New Features; 152381043

Some devices with alphanumeric passcodes could show a single-digit entry screen that prevented the correct passcode from being entered.

Recorded at Beta 5

1. [1] iOS & iPadOS 26 Release Notes — beta-5 snapshot · Passcode — Known Issues; 156070293

Health data remained accessible after a device without a passcode reached the Power Off slider.

Recorded at Beta 5

1. [1] iOS & iPadOS 26 Release Notes — beta-5 snapshot · HealthKit — Resolved Issues; 155576088

SwiftUI full-screen covers again used opaque backgrounds where transparency was unintended.

Recorded at Beta 5

1. [1] iOS & iPadOS 26 Release Notes — beta-5 snapshot · SwiftUI — Resolved Issues; 154232311

Guided generation added explicit refusal handling, raw generated-content access, and a permissive mode for supported text transformations.

Recorded at Beta 5

1. [1] iOS & iPadOS 26 Release Notes — beta-5 snapshot · Foundation Models framework — New Features; 156086748, 156351123, 156721060

The iOS and iPadOS 26 SDK removed long-deprecated ubiquitous-store option keys superseded by NSPersistentCloudKitContainer and SwiftData.

Recorded at Beta 5

1. [1] iOS & iPadOS 26 Release Notes — beta-5 snapshot · CoreData — Deprecations; 157297746

iOS 26 Beta 5 appeared on 2025-08-05 as build 23A5308g.

Recorded at Beta 5

1. [1] iOS 26.0 beta 5 (23A5308g) · iOS 26.0 Beta 5; build 23A5308g

A DualSense or DualSense Edge controller could pair with multiple Apple devices and switch between them.

Recorded at Beta 5

1. [1] iOS & iPadOS 26 Release Notes — beta-5 snapshot · Game Controller — New Features; 137782227

The Beta 5 SDK revised Core Data Sendable and isolation annotations, surfacing warnings for code that violated established context-concurrency rules.

Recorded at Beta 5

1. [1] iOS & iPadOS 26 Release Notes — beta-5 snapshot · CoreData — Known Issues; 153848710

Apple fixed the Beta 5 state that could present a single-digit screen for an alphanumeric passcode.

Recorded at Beta 6

1. [1] iOS & iPadOS 26 Release Notes — beta-6 snapshot · Passcode — Resolved Issues; 156070293

Message translation could fail when only the recipient had enabled translation.

Recorded at Beta 6

1. [1] iOS & iPadOS 26 Release Notes — beta-6 snapshot · Messages — Known Issues; 157779997

The Add to Home Screen flow again loaded webpage data needed to create a Home Screen web app.

Recorded at Beta 6

1. [1] iOS & iPadOS 26 Release Notes — beta-6 snapshot · Web Apps — Resolved Issues; 154655565

Foundation Models stopped reporting guardrail violations caused by model assets that had not fully downloaded.

Recorded at Beta 6

1. [1] iOS & iPadOS 26 Release Notes — beta-6 snapshot · Foundation Models framework — Resolved Issues; 156223847

Applications no longer quit unexpectedly during search.

Recorded at Beta 6

1. [1] iOS & iPadOS 26 Release Notes — beta-6 snapshot · Search — Resolved Issues; 157464670

iOS 26 Beta 6 appeared on 2025-08-11 as build 23A5318c.

Recorded at Beta 6

1. [1] iOS 26.0 beta 6 (23A5318c) · iOS 26.0 Beta 6; build 23A5318c

iOS 26 Beta 6 v2 appeared on 2025-08-14 as build 23A5318f.

Recorded at Beta 6 v2

1. [1] Apple Releases Third iOS 26 and iPadOS 26 Public Betas, New Developer Beta · iOS 26 Public Beta 3 and revised Beta 6 release; August 14

iOS 26 Beta 7 appeared on 2025-08-18 as build 23A5326a.

Recorded at Beta 7

1. [1] iOS 26.0 beta 7 (23A5326a) · iOS 26.0 Beta 7; build 23A5326a

iOS 26 Beta 8 appeared on 2025-08-25 as build 23A5330a.

Recorded at Beta 8

1. [1] iOS 26.0 beta 8 (23A5330a) · iOS 26.0 Beta 8; build 23A5330a

SwiftUI popovers stopped crashing when they accessed environment objects declared outside the popover content.

Recorded at Beta 9

1. [1] iOS & iPadOS 26 Release Notes — beta-9 snapshot · SwiftUI — Resolved Issues; 156906038

iOS 26 Beta 9 appeared on 2025-09-02 as build 23A5336a.

Recorded at Beta 9

1. [1] iOS 26.0 beta 9 (23A5336a) · iOS 26.0 Beta 9; build 23A5336a

The Image Playground Create Image action reappeared in Shortcuts and Spotlight.

Recorded at Beta 9

1. [1] iOS & iPadOS 26 Release Notes — beta-9 snapshot · Image Playground — Resolved Issues; 153235442

CloudKit request-access operations that were present in the SDK began functioning.

Recorded at RC

1. [1] iOS & iPadOS 26 Release Notes — rc snapshot · CloudKit — Resolved Issues; 151878020

iOS 26 RC appeared on 2025-09-09 as build 23A340.

Recorded at RC

1. [1] iOS 26.0 RC (23A340) · iOS 26.0 RC; build 23A340

The Swift compiler stopped crashing when a project initialized UISymbolContentTransition.

Recorded at RC

1. [1] iOS & iPadOS 26 Release Notes — rc snapshot · Swift Compiler — Resolved Issues; 150858005

Messages, FaceTime, Phone, and supported AirPods gained translated conversation experiences, subject to device, language, and region requirements.

Recorded at Public

1. [1] About iOS 26 Updates · Live Translation

CarPlay added a refreshed interface, compact call presentation, widgets, Live Activities, Tapbacks, and pinned conversations.

Recorded at Public

1. [1] About iOS 26 Updates · CarPlay

The release expanded Visual Intelligence from the camera to onscreen content, with search and action options based on what is displayed.

Recorded at Public

1. [1] About iOS 26 Updates · Apple Intelligence and Visual Intelligence

iOS 26 introduced Liquid Glass, an adaptive Lock Screen clock, spatial scenes, and additional icon appearances.

Recorded at Public

1. [1] About iOS 26 Updates · Design and personalization

Wallet added richer boarding passes, expanded order tracking, and additional supported financing experiences, with availability varying by partner and region.

Recorded at Public

1. [1] About iOS 26 Updates · Wallet

Call Screening, Hold Assist, and new organization for calls from unknown numbers reduced interruptions and time spent waiting on hold.

Recorded at Public

1. [1] About iOS 26 Updates · Phone