Ever since downloading an early developer beta preview of iOS 26, my iPhone has extra bounce, warble and bloop about it. The design modifications coming to Apple devices have been a hot topic on social media. The brand new working techniques are adopting an interface fashion referred to as Liquid Glass, revealed this week at the Worldwide Developers Conference, which transforms menus, apps and buttons into one thing of translucent jelly… with spunk.
However if you happen to can see previous the clear icons, there are other updates coming to iOS 26 that matter extra to our day-to-day lives. Taking a screenshot of a celebration invite can immediately put it in your calendar. Maps can recommend route modifications with out you asking for driving instructions. And robots can intercept telephone calls — or bounce into the dialog as a dwell language translator.
On this week’s episode of One Extra Factor, which you’ll be able to watch within the video embedded above, I take an early poke at a few of these new options and share questions I’ve about the way it will carry out when launched to the general public. Apple remains to be months away from finalizing the software program, however maybe I am most inquisitive about how people will embrace the assistive instruments (and if they are going to be correct).
Or perhaps we’ll simply be too distracted by clear bouncy buttons to note.
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