iOS updates typically make news for the features they add and the apps they introduce or enhance. With iOS 26, though, the story largely centers around the new look the software brings to your iPhone.
It's not that iOS 26 doesn't introduce its share of new features, and there's even a new app or two that arrives thanks to this update. But this year's version of Apple's iPhone software, now available as an iOS 26 public beta that you can download on any compatible device, puts the focus on an interface overhaul — the biggest one since iOS 7 arrived a dozen years ago.
