June 9, 2025
PRESS RELEASE
iPadOS 26 introduces highly effective new options that push the capabilities and flexibility of iPad even additional
iPadOS 26 brings a brand new design; a completely new highly effective and intuitive windowing system; new options powered by Apple Intelligence; main enhancements to working with information, audio, and video; and extra
CUPERTINO, CALIFORNIA Apple in the present day previewed iPadOS 26, the largest iPadOS launch ever, taking an enormous leap ahead and pushing the distinctive capabilities and flexibility of iPad even additional. An exquisite design brings a brand new look to iPad, making the expertise much more expressive and pleasant. Whereas sustaining the simplicity of iPad, iPadOS 26 introduces a completely new highly effective and intuitive windowing system with new options that assist customers management, set up, and swap between apps. Apple Intelligence turns into much more succesful and built-in throughout iPadOS 26, with new options that assist customers talk, categorical themselves, and get issues completed, together with Dwell Translation, new methods to create with Genmoji and Picture Playground,1 and clever actions with Shortcuts. The supercharged Recordsdata app provides new methods to arrange information and customise folders. And with Folders within the dock, customers can conveniently entry downloads, paperwork, and extra from wherever. The Preview app involves iPad, giving customers a devoted app to view and edit PDFs, with highly effective options like Apple Pencil Markup and AutoFill in-built. And with Background Duties, audio enter choice, and Native seize, iPadOS 26 unlocks new capabilities for artistic professionals working with audio and video.
“iPadOS 26 is our largest iPadOS launch ever, with highly effective options that take the expertise to the subsequent stage and rework what customers can do on iPad,” stated Craig Federighi, Apple’s senior vp of Software program Engineering. “With a lovely new design, a completely new highly effective and intuitive windowing system, much more options powered by Apple Intelligence, big enhancements to working with information, and new capabilities for creatives to energy their workflows, iPadOS 26 makes our most versatile system much more succesful.”
A Lovely New Design
The attractive new design brings extra expressive and pleasant experiences to iPad customers, whereas sustaining the familiarity of iPadOS. It’s crafted with Liquid Glass — a translucent new materials that displays and refracts its environment, whereas reacting to person enter and dynamically remodeling to convey higher focus to the content material they care about most. It allows a brand new stage of vitality throughout experiences just like the Lock Display and Management Middle, and provides customers new methods to personalize their House Display with up to date app icons that come to life in gentle or darkish appearances, colourful new gentle and darkish tints, in addition to a sublime new clear look. And up to date controls and navigation prolong to apps together with Mail, Safari, Apple TV, Apple Music, and extra.
An Fully New Highly effective and Intuitive Windowing System
iPadOS 26 introduces highly effective new options that assist customers work with, management, set up, and swap between app home windows — all whereas sustaining the immediacy and ease that iPad customers anticipate. The brand new windowing system lets customers fluidly resize app home windows, place them precisely the place they need, and open much more home windows directly.
Acquainted window controls enable customers to seamlessly shut, decrease, resize, or tile their home windows. Window tiling is designed for the distinctive capabilities of iPad, and allows customers to rearrange their home windows with a easy flick. If a person beforehand resized an app, it opens again in the very same measurement and place once they open it once more. With Exposé, customers can rapidly see all their open home windows unfold out, serving to them simply swap to the one they want. The brand new windowing system works nice with Stage Supervisor for many who need to group their home windows into distinct phases, and with an exterior show for many who need much more area to work throughout their apps.2
With a brand new menu bar, customers can entry the instructions accessible in an app with a easy swipe down from the highest of the show, or by shifting their cursor to the highest. Customers can rapidly discover a particular function or associated suggestions in an app by utilizing search within the menu bar. Moreover, builders can now customise the menu bar in their very own apps.
New Options Powered by Apple Intelligence
Apple Intelligence, the private intelligence system that delivers useful and related intelligence whereas taking a unprecedented step ahead for privateness in AI, turns into much more succesful and much more built-in throughout iPadOS 26. Dwell Translation in Telephone, FaceTime, and Messages allows iPad customers to speak seamlessly throughout languages. In Messages, incoming texts — together with group messages — are mechanically translated into the person’s most popular language.3 On FaceTime, a person can observe together with translated reside captions whereas nonetheless listening to the speaker’s voice. And when on a telephone name, the interpretation is spoken aloud all through the dialog.4
iPadOS 26 brings customers new methods to create Genmoji, giving them the power to start out with current emoji and descriptions, modify private attributes like hair size or equipment, and choose expressions. Customers may even have extra management of non-public attributes and expressions in Picture Playground, and may faucet into brand-new types with ChatGPT, like an oil portray model for a good friend’s Contact Poster. For moments when customers have a selected thought in thoughts, they’ll faucet Any Type and describe precisely what they need. And Picture Playground can now ship a person’s description or photograph to ChatGPT and create a singular picture.
Shortcuts options new clever actions that enable customers to create shortcuts which are extra highly effective than ever, together with summarizing textual content with Writing Instruments and creating photographs with Picture Playground. Customers may also faucet immediately into Apple Intelligence fashions to supply responses that feed into the remainder of their shortcuts. For instance, a scholar can construct a shortcut that makes use of Apple Intelligence fashions to check an audio transcription of a category lecture to the notes they took, and add any key factors they could have missed.
Highly effective New Methods to Work with Recordsdata
iPadOS 26 introduces highly effective new methods to handle, entry, and edit information. An enhanced Recordsdata app with an up to date Record view permits customers to see extra of their doc particulars in resizable columns and collapsible folders. To make folders simpler to establish at a look, Recordsdata additionally provides folder customization choices that embrace customized colours, icons, and emoji that sync throughout units. For faster entry, customers can now drag any folder from the Recordsdata app proper into the Dock. Moreover, customers can set a default app for opening particular information or file sorts.
The Preview App Involves iPad
Preview involves iPad, giving customers a devoted app for creating a fast sketch, in addition to viewing, modifying, and marking up PDFs and pictures with Apple Pencil or by contact. Customers can entry all of their PDFs and pictures within the Recordsdata app proper from Preview, create an empty web page, use Apple Pencil to attract and write on it, and use AutoFill to rapidly fill out PDF varieties.
New Methods to Work with Apps
Making the most of the unbelievable energy of Apple silicon, iPadOS 26 unlocks the power to carry out computationally intensive Background Duties. When customers begin a long-running course of in an app, Background Duties will present up with Dwell Actions, giving customers full management and a transparent sense of what’s working. And builders can use an up to date Background Duties API that enables customers to carry out long-running duties from their apps, too.
iPadOS 26 additionally brings new audio options that supply extra versatile enter and streamlined recording. Customers now have higher management over their audio enter, with the power to decide on completely different microphones for every app, in addition to particular person web sites. Recorded audio might be made even higher with the supply of Voice Isolation, which blocks ambient noise, and permits clear and crisp recordings. And with AirPods 4, AirPods 4 with Lively Noise Cancellation (ANC), and AirPods Professional 2, studio-quality audio recording permits customers to document their content material with nice sound high quality and luxuriate in clear calls.
With Native seize, customers can produce high-quality recordings proper from iPad with any video conferencing app, and simply share audio and video information as soon as the decision is over. Echo cancellation of different contributors’ audio retains the person’s voice entrance and middle, permitting for a transparent recording of their facet of the decision.
New Apps, Plus Extra Methods to Talk
With iPadOS 26, Journal involves iPad, making it simple for customers to seize and write concerning the particulars of on a regular basis moments or particular occasions. Utilizing Apple Pencil or contact, customers can incorporate drawings and handwriting, together with photographs, movies, audio recordings, locations, their way of thinking, and extra. Customers can maintain a number of journals for varied features of life, and now have entry to a lovely map view that organizes entries by location.
The all-new Apple Video games app brings customers a brand new residence for gaming, and iPadOS 26 introduces Recreation Overlay, which permits customers to rapidly see new occasions and updates, regulate settings, name or invite a good friend mid-game, and extra.
The Messages app brings dialog Backgrounds, which lets a person personalize their chats with beautiful designs and create distinctive backgrounds that match their dialog with Picture Playground. Messages additionally brings Polls and a redesigned particulars view that helps customers simply navigate what has been shared in a dialog, and supercharges group chats with typing indicators, in addition to the power to request and obtain Apple Money.5 Moreover, the Telephone app involves iPad, and contains updates like Maintain Help6 and Name Screening.7
Extra iPadOS 26 updates:
- Obtainable within the instrument palette, the brand new reed pen makes use of stroke-angle presets to allow a conventional calligraphy expertise with Apple Pencil or contact in apps like Notes, Preview, Freeform, and Journal; when utilizing Markup; and in third-party apps utilizing the PencilKit API.
- Calculator introduces new 3D graphing capabilities in Math Notes, permitting customers to put in writing an equation with three variables and create a graph in three dimensions.
- Notes provides the power to import and export a observe right into a markdown file, together with assist for capturing conversations within the Telephone app as audio recordings with transcriptions.
- Accessibility options embrace Accessibility Reader, a brand new systemwide studying mode designed to make textual content simpler to learn for customers who’re blind, have low imaginative and prescient, or produce other disabilities affecting studying; an all-new Braille Entry expertise that provides a user-friendly interface for customers with a linked braille show; Share Accessibility Settings to briefly use accessibility settings on one other particular person’s system; and extra.
Availability
All of those options can be found for testing beginning in the present day via the Apple Developer Program at developer.apple.com, and a public beta might be accessible via the Apple Beta Software program Program subsequent month at beta.apple.com. New software program options might be accessible this fall as a free software program replace for iPad Professional (M4), iPad Professional 12.9-inch (third era and later), iPad Professional 11-inch (1st era and later), iPad Air (M2 and later), iPad Air (third era and later), iPad (A16), iPad (eighth era and later), iPad mini (A17 Professional), and iPad mini (fifth era and later). The Apple Intelligence options detailed require supported units, which embrace all iPhone 16 fashions, iPhone 15 Professional, iPhone 15 Professional Max, iPad mini (A17 Professional), and iPad and Mac fashions with M1 and later which have Apple Intelligence enabled and Siri and system language set to the identical supported language: English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese (Brazil), Spanish, Japanese, Korean, or Chinese language (simplified). Extra languages might be coming by the top of this 12 months: Danish, Dutch, Norwegian, Portuguese (Portugal), Swedish, Turkish, Chinese language (conventional), and Vietnamese. For extra info, go to apple.com/os/ipados and apple.com/apple-intelligence. Options are topic to alter. Some options is probably not accessible in all languages or areas, and availability could range as a result of native legal guidelines and laws. For extra details about availability, go to apple.com.
About Apple
Apple revolutionized private expertise with the introduction of the Macintosh in 1984. At present, Apple leads the world in innovation with iPhone, iPad, Mac, AirPods, Apple Watch, and Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional. Apple’s six software program platforms — iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, visionOS, and tvOS — present seamless experiences throughout all Apple units and empower folks with breakthrough providers together with the App Retailer, Apple Music, Apple Pay, iCloud, and Apple TV+. Apple’s greater than 150,000 workers are devoted to creating one of the best merchandise on earth and to leaving the world higher than we discovered it.
- Genmoji and Picture Playground can be found in English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese (Brazil), Spanish, and Japanese.
- Full exterior show assist is out there with iPad Air (fifth era), iPad Air (M2 and later), iPad Professional 11-inch (third era and later), iPad Professional 12.9-inch (fifth era and later), and iPad Professional (M4).
- Dwell Translation in Messages helps English (U.S., UK), French (France), German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese (Brazil), Spanish (Spain), and Chinese language (simplified).
- Dwell Translation in Telephone and FaceTime is out there for one-on-one calls in English (U.S., UK), French (France), German, Portuguese (Brazil), and Spanish (Spain).
- Apple Money providers are offered by Inexperienced Dot Financial institution, Member FDIC. Apple Funds Providers LLC, a subsidiary of Apple Inc., is a service supplier of Inexperienced Dot Financial institution for Apple Money accounts. Neither Apple Inc. nor Apple Funds Providers LLC is a financial institution. Be taught extra concerning the phrases and circumstances. Solely accessible within the U.S. on eligible units.
- Maintain Help helps English (U.S., Australia, Canada, India, Singapore, UK), French (France), Spanish (U.S., Mexico, Spain), German (Germany), Portuguese (Brazil), Japanese (Japan), and Mandarin Chinese language (mainland China).
- Name Screening helps Cantonese (China mainland, Hong Kong, Macao), English (U.S., Australia, Canada, India, Eire, New Zealand, Puerto Rico, Singapore, South Africa, UK), French (Canada, France), German (Germany), Japanese (Japan), Korean (Korea), Mandarin Chinese language (China mainland, Taiwan, Macao), Portuguese (Brazil), and Spanish (U.S., Mexico, Puerto Rico, Spain).
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