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visionOS 26.0

Full article
Public release
Recorded milestones
11
Beta cycle
98d
Average interval
10d
Public release
Sep 15, 2025

Release notes

Overview

Editorial synthesis with inline references and a source ledger when citations are available.

visionOS 26 made spatial content more persistent through widgets, scenes, and spatial web experiences while advancing Personas, shared experiences, immersive media, accessibility, and enterprise use.[1][2]

Some spatial and immersive experiences require particular hardware, compatible content, or regional availability; the archive records the documented release rather than promising universal access.[3][4]

Source ledger

References

Sources are linked to the claims they support. Publication and access dates are shown when available.

  1. About visionOS 26 Updates

    Apple Support · Apple · 2026-07-29 · visionOS 26

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  2. New Versions of Apple’s Software Platforms Are Now Available

    Apple Newsroom · 2025-09-15T00:00:00.000Z · visionOS 26

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  3. About visionOS 26 Updates

    Apple Support · Apple · 2026-07-29 · Feature availability notes

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  4. visionOS 26 Release Notes

    Apple Developer · 2026-07-29 · Overview and availability notes

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  5. About the Security Content of visionOS 26

    Apple Support · 2026-07-29 · visionOS 26; released September 15, 2025

  6. visionOS 26 Release Notes

    Apple Developer · 2026-07-29

Documented & observed

Changes in this version

Source-linked features, fixes, known issues, removals, and community-observed behavior recorded across this version’s appearances and verified builds.

Release changes

Changed in this release

Features, fixes, removals, and regressions first observed in this release record.

knownIssue · knownIssue

Background Assets beta reliability limitations

documentedconfirmed

The initial visionOS state groups the retained Background Assets limitations while preserving their individual Apple issue identifiers.

Recorded at Beta 1

  1. [1] Archived visionOS 26 Beta Release Notes — 20250609220324 raw state · Background Assets — Known Issues; issues 143281558, 151498902, 151647839, and 151942388

feature · introduced

Spatial web and immersive Safari content

documentedconfirmed

Safari expanded web content into spatial and immersive presentations, including supported 3D and media experiences.

Recorded at Public

  1. [1] About visionOS 26 Updates · Safari

enhancement · changed

Improved Personas and shared experiences

documentedconfirmed

Personas became more expressive and shared experiences gained additional ways for participants to interact together.

Recorded at Public

  1. [1] About visionOS 26 Updates · Personas and shared experiences

feature · introduced

Wide-field immersive media support

documentedconfirmed

The release broadened playback and creation pathways for supported immersive and wide-field media.

Recorded at Public

  1. [1] About visionOS 26 Updates · Immersive media

feature · introduced

Persistent spatial widgets

documentedconfirmed

visionOS 26 introduced spatial widgets that remain placed in the environment across sessions.

Recorded at Public

  1. [1] About visionOS 26 Updates · Widgets

enhancement · changed

Spatial accessibility improvements

documentedconfirmed

visionOS 26 added documented accessibility improvements across viewing, navigation, and spatial interaction.

Recorded at Public

  1. [1] About visionOS 26 Updates · Accessibility

feature · introduced

Spatial scenes from photos

documentedconfirmed

The Photos experience added spatial scenes that create a depth effect from supported images.

Recorded at Public

  1. [1] About visionOS 26 Updates · Spatial scenes

Milestones

Release history

Every recorded channel appearance in chronological order. Open an appearance for any available build, scope, notes, and sources.

  1. Developer beta

    Beta 1

    Full articleEditorially verified

    The first retained raw Apple DocC state after visionOS 26 Beta 1 and before Beta 2 contains 142 note items; this page structures 10 representative, high-signal entries across Foundation Models, ARKit, Background Assets, remote immersive streaming, StoreKit, Swift Charts, SwiftUI, TabletopKit, video decoding, and WidgetKit.

    Availability
    available
    Sources
    11 linked
    Open this appearance
  2. +14 days
  3. +14 days
  4. +15 days
  5. +14 days
  6. +6 days
  7. +7 days
  8. +7 days
  9. +8 days
  10. +7 days
  11. +6 days

    Public release

    Public

    Source-linked recordEditorially verified

    The public visionOS 26 release made spatial content more persistent and expanded immersive media, shared experiences, accessibility, and enterprise capabilities.

    Build
    23M336
    Availability
    available
    Sources
    8 linked
    Open this appearance

Historical context

Cycle comparison

Pace, intervals, and duration compared with earlier releases on the same platform.

Historical avg for major releases

162 days, 9.5 milestones

Based on 2 previous visionOS .0 releases

Cycle vs. platform average

98d (avg: 63d)

35 days longer than the visionOS average

Duration ranking

#2 of 13

One of the longest visionOS beta cycles

Longest gap in this cycle

15 days

Between Beta 3 and Beta 4

Previous .0 releases (visionOS)

Previous comparable visionOS releases
VersionYearCycleMilestonesAvg. Interval
visionOS 2.0202498d1110d
visionOS 1.02024226d832d

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Official release notes