All of the new features coming to Apple’s iOS apps

HAS WWDC 2025 MondayApple has unveiled a series of new features that will be launched with iOS 26 this fall on its applications. These include important updates such as calls for calls, more suitable features for traveling and group chat features in messages.

Some of these updates include Apple IntelligenceLike live translation. Others, like Apple bringing tabs in the photo application, simply make the devices a little easier to use. We will update this message as the new features come out.

Phone

Calls Allows you to determine what a call is before picking it up. When you receive a call from an unknown number, call screening will automatically answer in the background. When the appellant shares his name and the reason for their call, the iPhone will ring, and you can see their answer before deciding to abandon or ignore it.

Hold Assist will detect Hold Music and stay in play for you until a live agent is available, and the live translation will translate conversations on the fly. Your words will be translated as you speak, and the translation is pronounced aloud via a voice of AI for the recipient of the call. As a person you are talking to meets in their own language, you will hear a spoken translation of their voice.

Messages

Group members discuss messages can now create surveys To better plan events and make quick decisions. Apple Intelligence will also detect when a survey could be useful and suggest that users start one. In addition, group cats can now create personalized backgrounds for cats and see striking indicators, and you can now request, send and receive Apple species in group cats.

The application now also allows you to detect messages from unknown shippers. Messages from unknown shippers will appear in a dedicated folder where you can mark the number as well known, request more information or delete the message. Apple notes that these messages will remain silent until a user accepts them.

Live translation also arrives at messages. The functionality automatically translated the text for you when you type and deliver it to your favorite language. When the person you send an SMS responds, their message will be translated for you.

Music apple

Apple Music users will have access to A translation function To help them understand the words of their favorite songs in other languages. A new function of pronunciation of words will display phonetic words so that listeners can sing in a different language.

The application also adds an Audiomix function that will spend a song to the next use of time and will beat the match like a DJ to provide continuous reading. Functionality could be considered as a competitor to Spotify DJ functionality.

Apple also has a karaoke feature that will transform your iPhone into a portable microphone for Apple TV. The feature will amplify your voice when you drive your favorite songs, because real -time words and visuals appear on the TV screen.

You can also pin your favorite music at the top of your library in Apple Music to allow easier access.

Apple cards

Apple Maps will improve Understand your daily journey. He will now use intelligence on devices to start showing your favorite routes when you go home or to the office. The application will inform you of delays and also offer alternative routes.

Apple Maps also gets a new functionality of visited places that will help you remember the places you have been. You can choose to detect your iPhone when you are in a restaurant or store, and see all your places visited in cards. Apple notes that the places visited are protected by end -to -end encryption and that it cannot access it.

Apple wallet

Apple Wallet has the possibility for people to store a digital version of their passportcalled a digital identifier. The technology giant notes that this will not replace your actual passport, but it can be used in applications that must check age and identity, and at TSA control points. With the implementation of actual identification, Digital ID will give you another way of presenting an identity document in person during domestic trips.

In addition, another feature will allow you to present your driving license or your state identifier in the portfolio on websites for age and identity verification, starting with Chime, Turo, Uber Eats and US Bank, as well as Arizona MVD, Georgia DDS and Maryland MVA.

Apple also refreshes its boarding experience in the wallet. You will now get real -time updates on flights with live activities. You can also share the live activities of your flight with others so that they can stay up to date during your trips.

You can now access the cards from your boarding card in the wallet to navigate to the airport. You can also use Find My to Track items and report lost boarding luggage, and also display key services for the application of an airline, such as seats and emergency lists.

Apple has also announced that Wallet now uses Apple Intelligence to summarize and automatically display control monitoring details from emails sent by merchants or delivery operators.

Facetime

As the phone and messages, FaceTime will take advantage of live translation to allow people to communicate with each other in different languages. When you speak to someone in a different language, Facetime will display legends translated so that you can understand you both.

Photos

After receiving an important user reaction for its overhaul of the Photos Application in iOS 18, Apple brings back a Photo tab interface. In the collections, you will find your favorites, your albums and the possibility of looking in your library. The Library tab facilitates the scrolling of recent photos.

The Photos Application is also able to transform your 2D photos into 3D space photos.

Camera

The iPhone camera application will present the two capture modes you use most on the main screen: photo and video. To reveal additional modes, such as portrait mode and cinematographic mode, you can slide your finger on the left or right.

To access other parameters, such as flash, timer, aperture, and more, you now slide up from the bottom of the screen. You can also change formats with a TAP, which can be useful when switching between HD and 4K resolution or image frequency adjustment to video.

Apple podcasts

Apple Podcasts obtains a new personalized reading experience that will allow you to choose speed options, from 0.5x and 3x. The functionality will bring more listening experience on Apple podcasts more in line with Spotify, which already allows you to choose the speed of reading of the podcasts.

In addition, Apple Podcasts gets a “Improve dialogue” function that will use audio treatment and automatic learning to make the floor clearer compared to background sounds.

Image Games Area

Apple adds chatgpt integration to SuperChat Image Playground. You can access new styles, such as vector art or oil paint. In addition, you can press the “Any style” option to describe exactly what you want. Image Playground will send the description or photo on chatgpt to create a unique image.