iOS 26 Shocks iPhone Users with a Stunning Redesign, Powerful AI Upgrades, and Epic New Features
iOS 26, unveiled at WWDC 2025 and released in September 2025, introduces a Liquid Glass redesign with translucent, frosted-glass UI across the Lock Screen, Home Screen, and system apps. Live Translation translates real-time conversations in Phone, FaceTime, and Messages on-device across languages such as English, Spanish, Chinese, French, and German. Visual Intelligence lets you ask questions about content on your screen and take actions like finding similar items on Etsy, all processed on-device. Messages adds Genmoji and an Image Playground that generate AI-created stickers or images from emoji and text prompts. Call Screening for Unknown Numbers introduces a Screen Unknown