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iOS 26 Speculation Thread
- Thread starter Kylo83
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Last minute wild predictions:
- New icons and look also mean the death of blue updated app dots
- Also we get something different from red notification badges
- Safari pages saved to the Home Screen now have pull to refresh
- Safari favorites now let you edit the favicon
- Clipboard history added to keyboard and syncs across devices
- App Library categories can be renamed and apps can be moved between categories
- App Library alpha sort zooms as you move like watchOS list view
- Dock on iPhone can hold more than 4 icons
- Dock gets auto hide option, adding an extra row of icons to home sceeen when enabled
- Widget and icon names can be hidden for small icons too
- Toggle to change Dynamic Island default action to long press action
- An icon picker
- Encrypted RCS
- Default Apps setting for AI/Assistant in EU
- Notification settings and notifications themselves sync across all devces
- Notification history/archive
- One button to clear all notifications (and an undo)
- Visual Intelligence updates to match Gemini Live and Circle to Search features in Android
- Split-screen multitasking for iPhone
I would cry of joy.
Not many hours until we’ll see the new iOS. I’m surprised there’s no real leaks of the new design yet.
I have a feeling it’s gonna be more minor of a redesign than people expect
My last minute guess:
The name "iOS" will die alongside the switch to "year-based" versioning.
It will become "iPhone OS" again, matching iPad OS, watchOS, visionOS etc.
😜
The name "iOS" will die alongside the switch to "year-based" versioning.
It will become "iPhone OS" again, matching iPad OS, watchOS, visionOS etc.
😜
There's only 4 things that I really really want:
- Ability to add more than 4 icons on the dock
- more calendar widget options, specifically i like the fantastical widget that shows full month and list side by side
- more widget interaction. Like on some 3rd party widgets I'd like to touch, select and scroll right from the widget... not sure if that's an apple limitation or the developer
- and last but not least true multi tasking, I should be able to open 2 apps at once on a pro max size screen
- Ability to add more than 4 icons on the dock
- more calendar widget options, specifically i like the fantastical widget that shows full month and list side by side
- more widget interaction. Like on some 3rd party widgets I'd like to touch, select and scroll right from the widget... not sure if that's an apple limitation or the developer
- and last but not least true multi tasking, I should be able to open 2 apps at once on a pro max size screen
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my prediction:
new icon glints and glimmers will be optimized to only run well on iphone 16 and newer, to 'motivate' new hardware sales.
throughout beta, everyone will say its just the beta code making it run choppy. then it will launch just as choppy and everyone will say 'lol thats what you get for running a phone more than 1 year old'
new icon glints and glimmers will be optimized to only run well on iphone 16 and newer, to 'motivate' new hardware sales.
throughout beta, everyone will say its just the beta code making it run choppy. then it will launch just as choppy and everyone will say 'lol thats what you get for running a phone more than 1 year old'
PLEASE and thank you!!!! if there's any feature Apple needs to take from Android, it's this one. I will gladly sell my S24U if this comes. 🙏🙏🙏🙏
More likely that iPadOS dies. Foldables will make it so that when you open your phone, you have an iPad. So the OSes will need to merge again. Might as well do it today and pave the way for the future. This would bring split-screen and stage manager to the phones, which was already rumored for external displays.
To be fair, there has never been OS leaks as far as Apple. Only physical products.
I do trust M. Gurman and others who have leaked their statements.
I’m from Australia, Sydney and every year it’s a terrible timing as it’s so early to watch it but now I’m in Italy, Roma and I can finally watch it live hehe in 3hrs+ to go.
yeah tbh i just expect the "redesign" to be nothing more than glass buttons where the buttons are now lol.
Their most important app, Messages, still continues to look as dated and boring as always.
I hope not, I like the distinction between iPadOS and iOS. Luckily, I think they will keep them named separately. 👍🏻
We’ll see in a few hours, but all of the reports that have come in specifically say the changes will go beyond a mere paint job, and options will likely be moved and consolidated.
If it's just a name, that's fine. But Gurman has already said the focus will be converging all the OSes so they look and feel the same, so I don't think you will find many distinctions anymore. I don't expect them to all be the same on day one, but by iOS 27 or 28, maybe we just have One OS to Rule Them All.