OS 26 brought a lot of new features to the Messages app, including an AI upgrade for an essential feature: search.

OS 26.4 is available for beta testers. The update adds new features for Apple Music, Podcasts, and more. Here's everything you need to know.

Apple released important fixes with its surprise iOS 26.3.1 update, but users have spotted problems.

There's a bunch of great new features to check out. Image: D. Griffin Jones/Cult of Mac The Messages app gains flashy new features in iOS 26 that make group chats far more fun and efficient. It also ...

Apple has slowly been ramping up the number of ways you can personalize the look of your iPhone, and in iOS 26 that customization treatment makes its way into the Messages app. Once you download the ...

The next iPhone software is just around the corner, but the first beta is out already and has significant changes.

Apple revealed iOS 26 at this year's WWDC, and one of the biggest new features making its debut in the upcoming release of iOS 26 is message filtering. This finally lets us take control of our ...

Google and Apple today announced that testing of encrypted RCS messaging between Android and iPhone is now underway.

When iOS 26 first dropped, there was one pretty huge group chat bug. Some users complained that their messages to existing group chats were sent as individual chats instead of chats to the entire ...

A new message filtering system in iOS 26 could hurt political fundraisers by sending texts from unknown numbers to a separate inbox without notifications. While the feature is opt-in, some political ...

In June, Apple previewed the iPhone’s next operating system, iOS 26. Without a doubt, the headline feature of iOS 26 (yes, the iPhone’s OS has a new number system) is its complete design overhaul, ...

With the second iOS 26.4 beta, Apple and Google have started testing end-to-end encryption (E2EE) for RCS messages exchanged between iPhone and Android users. Apple started testing E2EE for RCS in the ...