At WWDC 2025 on Monday, Apple unveiled a collection of recent options that may launch with iOS 26 this fall throughout its apps. These embrace vital updates like Name Screening, extra travel-friendly options in Pockets, and extremely requested group chat options in Messages.

A few of these updates embrace Apple Intelligence, like Dwell Translation. Others, like Apple bringing again tabs within the Pictures app, simply make units a bit simpler to make use of. We’ll replace this publish as new options come out.

Telephone

Call Screening helps you to decide what a name is about earlier than choosing it up. Whenever you get a name from an unknown quantity, Name Screening will mechanically reply silently within the background. When the caller shares their identify and the explanation for his or her name, the iPhone will ring, and you’ll view their response earlier than deciding whether or not to choose up or ignore it.

Maintain Help will detect maintain music and keep on the road for you till a stay agent is out there, and Dwell Translation will translate conversations on the fly. Your phrases can be translated as you speak, and the interpretation is spoken out loud through an AI voice for the decision recipient. Because the particular person you’re talking to responds in their very own language, you’ll hear a spoken translation of their voice.

Messages

Members in group chats on Messages can now create polls to higher plan occasions and make fast choices. Apple Intelligence can even detect when a ballot is likely to be helpful and counsel that customers begin one. Plus, group chats can now create customized backgrounds for chats and see typing indicators, and now you can request, ship, and obtain Apple Money in group chats. 

The app now additionally helps you to display messages from unknown senders. Messages from unknown senders will seem in a devoted folder the place you may mark the quantity as recognized, ask for extra data, or delete the message. Apple notes that these messages will stay silenced till a person accepts them. 

Dwell Translation can be coming to Messages. The characteristic will mechanically translate textual content for you as you kind and ship it in your most well-liked language. When the particular person you’re texting responds, their message can be translated for you. 

Apple Music

Apple Music customers will get entry to a Lyrics Translation feature to assist them perceive the phrases of their favourite songs in different languages. A brand new Lyrics Pronunciation characteristic will show phonetic lyrics in order that listeners can sing alongside in a unique language. 

The app can be including an AudioMix characteristic that may transition from one tune to the subsequent utilizing time stretching and beat matching like a DJ to ship steady playback. The characteristic may very well be seen as a competitor to Spotify’s AI DJ feature.  

Apple can be introducing a karaoke characteristic that may flip your iPhone right into a handheld microphone for Apple TV. The characteristic will amplify your voice as you belt your favourite songs, as real-time lyrics and visuals seem on the TV display. 

You may as well pin your favourite music to the highest of your Library in Apple Music to permit for simpler entry. 

Apple Maps

Apple Maps goes to get higher at understanding your daily commute. It would now use on-device intelligence to start out exhibiting you most well-liked routes when headed residence or to the workplace. The app will notify you of delays and supply different routes, too. 

Apple Maps can be getting a brand new Visited Locations characteristic that may show you how to bear in mind the locations you’ve been. You’ll be able to select to have your iPhone detect if you’re at a restaurant or store, and consider all your Visited Locations in Maps. Apple notes that Visited Locations are protected with end-to-end encryption and that it can’t entry them. 

Apple Pockets 

Apple Pockets is introducing the power for individuals to retailer a digital version of their passport, known as a Digital ID. The tech large notes that this gained’t be a alternative to your precise passport, however it may be utilized in apps that must confirm age and identification, and at supported TSA checkpoints. With Actual ID implementation in impact, Digital ID provides you with one other method to current an ID in particular person throughout home journey. 

As well as, one other characteristic will allow you to current your driver’s license or state ID in Pockets to web sites for age and identification verification, beginning with Chime, Turo, Uber Eats, and U.S. Financial institution, in addition to the Arizona MVD, Georgia DDS, and Maryland MVA.

Apple can be refreshing its boarding go expertise in Pockets. You’ll now get real-time updates about flights with Dwell Actions. You may as well share your flight’s Dwell Actions with others to allow them to stay up to date in your travels. 

You’ll now be capable to entry Maps out of your boarding go in Pockets to navigate to the airport. You may as well use Discover My to trace objects and report misplaced baggage from the boarding go, and in addition view key providers on an airline’s app, equivalent to seat upgrades and standby lists.

Apple additionally introduced that Pockets now makes use of Apple Intelligence to mechanically summarize and show order monitoring particulars from emails despatched from retailers or supply carriers. 

FaceTime

Like Telephone and Messages, FaceTime will leverage Dwell Translation to let individuals talk with one another in numerous languages. Whenever you’re speaking to somebody in a unique language, FaceTime will show translated captions in order that the 2 of you may perceive one another. 

Pictures

After receiving vital person backlash for its Pictures app redesign in iOS 18, Apple is bringing again a tabbed interface to Photos. In Collections, you’ll discover your favorites, albums, and the power to go looking throughout your library. The Library tab makes it simpler to scroll by way of current photographs.

The Pictures app can be in a position to rework your 2D photographs into 3D spatial photographs.

Digicam

The iPhone’s Digicam app will showcase the 2 seize modes you utilize most on the primary display: picture and video. To disclose extra modes, like Portrait Mode and Cinematic Mode, you may swipe your finger left or proper.

To entry different settings, equivalent to flash, timer, aperture, and extra, you’ll now swipe up from the underside of the display. You may as well change codecs with a faucet, which may be useful when switching between HD and 4K decision or adjusting the body charge on video.

Apple Podcasts

Apple Podcasts is getting a brand new personalized playback expertise that may will let you select velocity choices, from 0.5x and 3x. The characteristic will convey listening expertise on Apple Podcasts extra according to Spotify, which already helps you to select playback velocity for podcasts.

Plus, Apple Podcasts is getting an “Improve Dialogue” characteristic that may use audio processing and machine studying to make speech extra clear over background sounds.

Picture Playground

Apple is including a ChatGPT integration to supercharge Picture Playground. You’ll be capable to entry new types, equivalent to vector artwork or an oil portray. Plus, you’ll be capable to faucet the “Any Type” possibility to explain precisely what you need. Picture Playground will ship the outline or picture to ChatGPT to create a novel picture.