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iOS 26’s Liquid Glass user interface brings dramatic change to the iPhone, so it’s no surprise that some people hate it. If the new translucent look is just not for you, you can tweak or turn off ...

Instead of simply dimming your Lock Screen wallpaper, the system blurs it by default in iOS 26. The tweak makes the clock and widgets stand out more, but it also defeats the purpose of displaying a ...

Your iPhone uses preinstalled Apple apps by default for system actions like opening links, making phone calls, and more. But iOS lets you set new default apps in a ...

Apple’s next iPhone update is iOS 26.3, and it’s expected to go on general release in about three weeks’ time. But while the next developer beta is due any moment, Apple has just sent beta users a ...

Macworld reports that iOS 26 has achieved only 18.1% adoption among iPhone users as of January 2026, significantly lower than iOS 18’s 77.1% at the same timeframe. The poor adoption rate appears ...

Preview in iOS 26 turns your iPhone into a quick workspace when a document needs attention. Here's how to edit your PDFs with the app. The new Preview app fixes a long-standing gap on the iPhone.

Update: As noted by Nick Heer on his Pixel Envy blog, analytics data is unreliable because Safari on iOS 26 is reporting a different operating system version in the user agent string that analytics ...

Apple is once again testing its new Background Security Improvement feature that first rolled out in iOS 26.1, iPadOS 26.1, and macOS Tahoe 26.1. Following a previous test earlier this week, ...

UPDATE: This article was based on incorrect data from StatCounter resulting from a change on policy by Apple. The web analytics firm fixed the problem and now reports that iOS 26 adoption is just ...