Yes, it is!! Because there's nothing changed; they just applied a glass theme over iOS 18.
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iOS 26 Speculation Thread
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Is now the moment of iPadOS?… or are they going to introduce the new version of visionOS?
OMG, Metal 4 looks quote good! It looks like they want to slow but steadily get into the gaming market…
No, they are saving iPadOS for the last… I sense something big… I’m flying over to the iPadOS thread!
OMG, Metal 4 looks quote good! It looks like they want to slow but steadily get into the gaming market…
No, they are saving iPadOS for the last… I sense something big… I’m flying over to the iPadOS thread!
I haven't seen anything nor do i know anything. On a scale of 1-10. How hype are you for the new updates when they drop in Sept?
oh come on guys! nothing revolutionary, but A LOT of convenient features 
Only interested on macOS so far, honestly, it looks to bring nice quality of life touches…
And I’m still hyped by iPadOS, given that they have left it for the last part of the keynote.
Given that the M2 is being used extensively for the Vision Pro, hopefully my M2 iPad Pro will receive most, if not all of the new iPadOS 26 features…
Oh, I am super hyped. Material 3 Expressive looks gorgeous!
How do we even know which feature will drop in Sept. versus December or May, or in IOS27?
I won't get interested until I see what features actually are in bete in any given time. So my "hype number" is 0.
It does seem like that there's no new "major" features. Hopefully that means that focus has been on squishing bugs and improving performance and battery life. Though I fear that the new iOS 26 will be a buggy mess for the next year...
New software features will be available this fall as a free software update for iPhone 11 and later.
Apple elevates the iPhone experience with iOS 26
New software features will be available this fall as a free software update for iPad Pro (M4), iPad Pro 12.9-inch (3rd generation and later), iPad Pro 11-inch (1st generation and later), iPad Air (M2 and later), iPad Air (3rd generation and later), iPad (A16), iPad (8th generation and later), iPad mini (A17 Pro), and iPad mini (5th generation and later).
iPadOS 26 introduces powerful new features that push the capabilities and versatility of iPad even further
okay, okay… this could work better than Stage manager… I kinda like it.
Let’s see what we have on the Files app…
Let’s see what we have on the Files app…
I’m seeing a lot of, “that will be useful” type improvements. Once we get passed all the folks who can’t wait to post about how bad anything Apple does is, I’m thinking it will be a useful upgrade
Yeah. Maybe the hype for the new UI was a big exaggerated, as I feel it a bit underwhelming, but I’m seeing many interesting implementations to macOS and, especially, iPadOS.
iPadOS seems to be the only one with actually useful features this year
oh come on guys! nothing revolutionary, but A LOT of convenient features
^^ This. For me this is a significant upgrade in every day usability...not sure what you guys missed.