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CNET on MSNLiquid Glass, Live Translation, and All the Other Important New iOS26 Features Coming to Your iPhoneOS 26 is changing a ton of iPhone features, from messaging to the photos app. Here's what to expect when it ships in the fall.
Apple has had two months to refine Liquid Glass since introducing the design language at WWDC. It’s dialed the effect back, then amped it back up. It’s addressed some of the biggest complaints — the Control Center, for one — and left us to live with some of the others. So after all the tweaks, how is everyone feeling about it?
As promised, Apple has just released the first public beta versions for the next-generation versions of iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and most of its other operating systems. The headlining feature of all the updates this year is Apple’s new Liquid Glass user interface,
Apple could be cooking up something special for the iPhone 17 Pro's color lineup, if a singular rumor out of Asia is anything to go by.
On a Mac’s larger display, the big redesign just feels like… well, it’s a design.
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Apple’s iPhone 17 lineup includes new colors like fluorescent orange and translucent white. Here’s every confirmed shade, and the rumor about Liquid Glass.