The next big iPhone update is here in weeks, and new reports show what’s coming when.
Apple ’s next major iPhone software release, iOS 26.2 is coming soon. The latest reports give us a clearer idea of exactly when and exactly what will be in it.Mid-December is the usual release date for the .
2 version of each iOS cycle. I’ve previously said that I thought the update will land on Monday, Dec. 15 or Tuesday Dec. 16.suggests it could be sooner. “We’re expecting Apple to release iOS 26.2 in December, sometime between December 9 and December 16,” it said. Good news for the impatient.In the last few hours, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman has commented on one of the most intriguing changes coming in iOS 26.2. The side button on the iPhone which launches Siri will allow users in Japan to choose a third-party voice assistant instead. Will it come to places outside Japan?“Apple seems to be moving in that direction,” Gurman said. “The latest iOS 26.2 beta update brings a developer framework to enable third-party voice assistants to be triggered by the iPhone’s side button. Since the iPhone X launch in 2017, when Apple started shifting away from home buttons, Siri access has been relegated to the elongated button on the right side. Now, under pressure from regulators, Apple is opening up that button to third-party voice assistants, at least in Japan.” Regulatory pressures in Japan needn’t mean changes elsewhere, surely? Gurman thinks it will bring this flexibility to third parties in the European Union as well. “While that isn’t happening in iOS 26.2, I still anticipate the change to come to those regions eventually. For those of us in the US, users can rely on the Action Button on the left side to quickly access ChatGPT or Gemini,” Gurman added. Users in Japan will also be able to install alternative app marketplaces and choose their preferred search engine. There’s a lot more to come in iOS 26.2. Reminders will offer an option to set an alarm when a reminder is due. The look of Liquid Glass is still being tweaked, with new animations in menus, a slider for the lock screen and an addition to the way the Tinted option works in Liquid Gass, warning that it can’t work together with Reduce Transparency. Liquid Glass will also come to the Measure app.
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