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In iOS 26, Apple Intelligence makes the Wallet app's order tracking feature genuinely useful by scanning your email for shipping details. The ability to track orders in Apple Wallet isn't new – it's actually been around since iOS 16. But if you've never noticed it before, don't worry. Most people haven't used it either. The feature initially struggled because it relied on merchants to...

In iOS 26, Apple has extended Visual Intelligence to work with content that's on your iPhone, allowing you to ask questions about what you're seeing, look up products, and more. Visual Intelligence started out in iOS 18.2 as a Camera Control button function that can describe what you are looking at, get details about a restaurant or business, translate text, and the like. But in iOS 26,...

With iOS 26, Apple gives you more control than ever over how your Home screen looks and feels. For example, as part of the new Liquid Glass redesign you can now make app icons and widgets clear. You can also now set the wallpaper directly from the Home screen, whereas previously you had to go into Settings. Bear in mind that the new Liquid Glass design means the wallpaper you choose...

In iOS 26, Apple has introduced enhanced message filtering that gives you more control over unwanted texts, separating spam messages from unknown senders into distinct categories. Here's how to set up and use these new filtering options to keep your Messages app clutter-free. Enable Message Filtering Settings Before you can filter messages from unknown senders in iOS 26, you need to enable...

In iOS 26, Apple has added a new feature to its Home screen customization options that can match the color of your app icons with the actual color of your iPhone's case. Keep reading to learn how it works. In iOS 18, Apple introduced Tinted app icons. The option applies a color filter over app icons, widgets, and even system UI elements. And with iOS 26, Apple has built on the theme with a...

In iOS 26, seamless multilingual conversations in Messages are just a few taps away, thanks to Apple's new Live Translation feature. When chatting with friends or colleagues who speak different languages, you can now see instant translations without breaking the flow of your conversation. Live Translation is an Apple Intelligence feature, so you'll need an iPhone 15 Pro, iPhone 16, iPhone...

In iOS 26, Apple has introduced several new features for its Messages app, and this one in particular is long overdue. The ability to create polls in conversations has been a mainstay of rival messaging platforms. And now, Messages finally has it too. You can add up to 12 choices in a poll, and then send it to people in a conversation to vote on. If you send a poll and someone thinks an...

In iOS 26, Live Translation enables hands-free communication by allowing users who don't share the same language to speak naturally while wearing AirPods. For conversations with non-AirPods users, the iPhone can display live transcriptions horizontally, showing translations in the other person's preferred language. Keep reading to learn how to use it. In iOS 26, Live Translation is...

On all models in Apple's new iPhone 17 series as well as the iPhone Air, the new 18MP Center Stage front camera transforms mobile photography with its square sensor design and intelligent auto-adjustment features. Unlike traditional front cameras, the system automatically rotates and zooms to capture perfect selfie shots. The square sensor also captures more image data than rectangular...

The iPhone 17 lineup brings a new video feature that lets you record from both the front and rear cameras simultaneously. Dual Capture creates picture-in-picture recordings that should be perfect for reaction videos, tutorials, or any scenario where you want to capture both yourself and the action in front of you. Here's what you need to know about the feature. Dual Capture works across the...

If you have an Apple Watch Series 9 or later or Apple Watch Ultra 2 or later, it can detect patterns in your heart rhythm that suggest hypertension and send you critical health notifications when they occur. This potentially life-saving feature requires just a few quick setup steps to activate. Apple Watch hypertension notifications analyze irregular heart rhythm patterns to identify...

In iOS 26, Apple has added a new feature to its Home screen customization options that can match the color of your app icons with the actual color of your iPhone. The image below demonstrates the effect on the new iPhone 17 Pro in Cosmic Orange. In iOS 18, Apple introduced Tinted app icons. The option applies a color filter over app icons, widgets, and even system UI elements, and with iOS...

The iPhone 17 Pro marks Apple's biggest leap yet in professional mobile video, introducing ProRes RAW recording for the first time. Unlike standard ProRes, RAW preserves all of the camera's sensor data – including ISO, shutter, and especially white balance – allowing filmmakers to make critical adjustments later in post-production without quality loss. Version 2.0 of Apple's Final Cut...

The iPhone 17 Pro introduces a powerful new 48MP Pro Fusion camera system, giving you sharp, detailed photos no matter which lens you use. The Main, Ultra Wide, and Telephoto cameras all shoot at 48MP, so your pictures stay consistent in quality whether you're zoomed in or out. The new Telephoto lens reaches an impressive 200mm focal length with 8x optical-quality zoom – that's the longest ...

On the iPhone 17 series and iPhone Air, the new 18-megapixel Center Stage front camera now uses a square sensor, allowing you to take horizontal or vertical photos and videos without changing the orientation that you are holding your iPhone. Because the sensor itself is square, your ‌iPhone‌ no longer locks you into one orientation. That means you can frame selfies, group shots, or video clips ...

On the iPhone 17 series and iPhone Air, the new 18-megapixel Center Stage front camera features a square sensor. This allows Center Stage to automatically switch between horizontal and vertical orientation when you're lining up a shot, meaning you don't need to change how you hold your iPhone. However, you may find when taking selfies that Center Stage detects people's faces beside you or in ...

On the iPhone 17 series and iPhone Air, the new 18-megapixel Center Stage front camera features a square sensor that offers more flexibility in framing and composition. Center Stage will also auto-zoom to include everyone in a group selfie, but if you don't like it, you can turn it off. The Center Stage camera automatically adjusts its view depending on what's happening in front of it. If...

In iOS 26, you can use AirPods 4, AirPods Pro 2, or AirPods Pro 3 as a wireless microphone with supported camera apps. Think of it as turning your AirPods into a lapel mic – you get professional-quality audio capture as well as the freedom to move around during recording. Here's how it works. Setting Up AirPods as Your Camera Microphone Using AirPods as a microphone in iOS 26 requires just...

WhatsApp has rolled out a new feature on iPhone that lets you set reminder alerts for specific messages that you want to come back to later. Available in version 25.25.74 of WhatsApp, the feature allows you to long press on any message in a conversation thread and select a new "Remind me" option in the popup menu. You can then choose between 2 hours, 8 hours, and 24 hours, or set a custom...

Apple's iPhone 16 and newer models include a new Camera Control button (located on the lower right-hand side when holding the phone in portrait mode), and includes a handy bit of functionality that can make focusing in on subjects a lot simpler. It's possible to lock the camera's auto exposure and auto focus settings with a light press of Camera Control. The option isn't on by default, but...