Apple's Liquid Glass makeover and expanded Apple Intelligence tools arrive this fall, but not every phone can make the leap.

iOS 26 beta 4 just arrived, and it is likely the last developer beta that Apple will launch ahead of the expected public beta debut this month. That hasn't stopped Apple from making some fairly significant tweaks to the OS though. Liquid Glass, iOS 26's big new design language, has become more "liquid" again, after beta 3 tuned down the effect.

With the fourth betas of iOS 26, iPadOS 26, macOS 26, visionOS 26, and watchOS 26, Apple has re-enabled Apple Intelligence Notification Summaries

In 2024, the Unicode Consortium debuted new emoji in September 2024, including the face with bags under eyes and the splatter emoji. You can find those emoji now on your Android and iPhone devices, as well as across the internet.

It's worth noting that Safari also generates a privacy report while you are browsing generally, informing you how many trackers it has prevented on sites, etc. And iOS 26 will introduce Advanced Fingerprint Protection for all Safari users, to stop sites using multiple identifiers to generate a picture of you as a user as you hop from site to site.

Macworld The fourth developer beta of iOS 26, which was released earlier this week, contains a peculiar warning message that hints at an unreleased Apple product. As reported by MacRumors, the software includes interesting new wording for a location-related HomePod setting: “Your HomePod won’t be able to show you the local weather,

As expected, Apple has delivered another developer beta of its new operating systems. Will the public preview version finally be released on Wednesday?