Apple has introduced the new iOS 26.1 update, a month after officially releasing iOS 26 to iPhone users. The new update brings a few security fixes and new nifty features, including the ability to change the Liquid Glass design. Here’s a look.
iOS 26.1: What’s New?
iOS 16.1 primarily lets people change the appearance of the Liquid Glass Design and choose between “Clear” and “Tinted” options. As the name suggests, Clear would result in a transparent look while Tinted will make the appearance opaque. To enable this, users can go to Settings > Display & Brightness > Liquid Glass.
Other changes include,
- The ability to disable the “swipe-to-camera” control on the Lock Screen. This will stop users from accidentally accessing the camera from the lock screen. For this, users can head to Settings > Camera and disable the “Lock Screen Swipe to Open Camera” option.
- The Live Translation feature for AirPods will now support new languages, such as Chinese (Mandarin, simplified and traditional), Italian, Japanese, and Korean.
- Apple Intelligence will now support new languages: Chinese (traditional), Danish, Dutch, Norwegian, Portuguese (Portugal), Swedish, Turkish, and Vietnamese.
- The Alarms app got a new, small yet handy feature to swipe to stop the alarm.
- The Accessibility section now has a new “Prefer single-touch actions” option to replace the sliding actions on the screen.
- There’s a new option to disable haptics when a phone call is taken or ended. Users can go to Settings > Apps > Phone and disable the Haptics option.
Other changes include the ability to automatically install security updates, a new video scrubbing bar, and more.
As for the security fixes, the iOS 26.1 update fixes vulnerabilities in the Apple Neural Engine, Apple Account, Camera app, and more. Learn more here.
The new iOS 26.1 update is now available to eligible devices (iPhone 17 series, iPhone 16 series, iPhone 15 series, iPhone 14 series, iPhone 13 series, iPhone 12 series, iPhone 11 series, iPhone SE 2nd generation). Users can update via Settings > General > Software Update.
