Although the new glass design can be the most visible change within iOS 26, the operating system also has five features that could be particularly attractive for professional users.
IOS 26 made its debut on June 9 at WWDC 2025, in a relatively moderate opening event. While Apple strongly emphasized its multiplatform “liquid glass” design language, there is more for iOS 26 which meets the eye.
Some of the upgrades and improvements in iOS 26 allow you to express your creativity more easily, such as new styles supplied by chatgpt for image playground. The other features, on the other hand, will help you do work, and they could be particularly useful for those in the business world.
Telephone intake and vocal messaging spam report
With iOS 26, Apple intensifies its fight against spam calls and voice messages thanks to improvements and new options in the telephone application.
The iPhone manufacturer has deployed a new call screening feature, saving the hassles of responding to calls from unknown numbers. It makes things easier, because you don’t need to check manually if the person on the other line is someone you want to talk to.
Instead, when an unknown number calls, your iPhone will invite the appellant to provide a name and a reason to call. This information is then relayed to the end user, allowing rapid decision -making with effectively no effort.
The Apple call screening function helps to filter interruptions, such as teleprears and crooks, without blocking unknown phone numbers without discrimination.
The call screening function is particularly useful if your telephone number is accessible to the public and affiliated to a company, an organization or another legal entity.
The telephone application in iOS 26 also allows you to directly report the spam voice messages directly to Apple. If you get a voicemail from an unknown number, pressing the message now reveals a “report spam” button.
You can now report it and keep voicemail or report it and delete it. In any case, the message is reported and sent to Apple for examination.
These reports do not automatically block the caller. You will always have to take this additional step manually, just like before. But the information could be used to improve Apple filtering algorithms, especially if a large number of users report similar messages.
Surveys in messages
Although the messages application also has a similar spam detection feature, this is not the only improvement that the application received with iOS 26.
There is now a new option to create surveys in group cats. These surveys in the application allow you to offer options and to vote, without the hassles of downloading a separate application. Everything is cooked in iMessage.
With the new survey functionality, it is possible to add several options, and all members of the group cat can vote, with results appearing in real time. The survey capacity in the application is supposed to be fast and intuitive, which means that using it is quite simple.
The Apple survey function also takes advantage of Apple Intelligence, the AI software on the company’s disk, available on the iPhone 15 Pro and more recent. When Apple Intelligence detects questions related to the plan, you will automatically see an option to create a survey.
For example, if someone writes “What film should we see tonight?” The messages application will invite the user to configure a survey with suggested titles. This only works with iMessage, however, because the survey functionality in the application is not available for SMS or multiplatform cats.
While applications like Telegram and WhatsApp have had survey features for years, their presence in the message application makes things much easier for end users, who no longer need to manage third -party applications only for survey options.
The functionality of the survey in the application will allow almost instant decision -making, whether you are talking about a commercial strategy with colleagues or the manufacture of plans with friends.
Live translation is now a system level functionality
Apple’s new live translation functionality, which helps users, is also available in Apple’s messages in real time.
The company’s live translation function is powered by IA -to -disk treatment models. It works on first -party applications like Facetime, messages and a phone. There is even a new call translation API that developers can use for third -party applications.
For example, the live translation function can immediately translate the text into other languages when you type a message in iMessage. As texts in other languages arrive, Apple Intelligence’s functionality can instantly translate them for you.
In FaceTime, the functionality provides live legends during video calls. For audio calls only, he can translate and speak the conversation aloud.
The functionality provides real -time interpretation on conversations without sending data to the cloud. However, you will need an iPhone 15 pro or more recent to use the translation live, as the functionality requires a device compatible with the Apple Intelligence.
The careful languages vary depending on the application. In messages, live translation works with English (United States, United Kingdom), French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish and simplified Chinese.
For the phone and FaceTime, the support is narrower when launch. It is limited to English (United States, the United Kingdom), French, German, Portuguese and Spanish. Apple says that other languages will be added by the end of 2025.
Live translation is a significant upgrade for professional users working through borders. It is also great for tourists or to communicate with family members from different parts of the world.
Unlike existing autonomous applications, Apple’s solution is integrated into daily communication tools that are already present in iOS. The live translation of the company was not based on the cloud -based treatment such as the features of Google and Samsung.
Messages now have strike indicators for group cats
In addition to live translation and improved spam detection features, Apple’s messages app has acquired another improvement expected for a long time – striking indicators.
While communication applications such as Slack, Discord, Facebook Messenger and Whatsapp have all had strike indicators for years, functionality was notably absent from Imessage.
With iOS 26, however, you will finally be able to know who type at any time. This will facilitate group communication, interactions being visible in real time. It also works in head-on-one cats.
This feature is ideal for professional users with several groups of Imessage group. It is easier to control the flow of a conversation and offers an overview of who actively participates, or who could hesitate to provide comments or an idea.
Shortcuts are now more powerful with Apple Intelligence
IOS 26 brings the shortcuts and the Apple Intelligence closer, allowing you to finish the tasks with the AI much faster.
So far, all Apple Intelligence tools are now available in what Apple calls intelligent actions.
In the first and second Betas of iOS 26 developers, the main actions are:
- Change the tone of the text
- List from the text
- Make the table from the text
- Proofreading text
- Rewrite the text
- Summarize the text
- Use the model
The latter is potentially the most significant because it allows shortcut users to specify which AI model they want to use. The options here are:
- Calculation of private cloud
- On arrangement
- Extension
- Ask each time
Calculation of private cloud take advantage of On arrangement Use the Apple Intelligence LLM stored locally. Extension Reference currently to Chatgpt, but this could allow other AI model options in the future, such as Google Gemini.
Ask each time Naturally, users choose a model each time a particular shortcut is used.
Intelligent actions can be used independently or alongside traditional shortcut options, which can considerably simplify workflows. Instead of having to navigate towards writing tools each time the alteration of the text or the summary is necessary, for example, a shortcut can help you make a text more concise in a few clicks.
The example of Apple is impressive who has a student sharing his notes and an audio recording of a conference in a shortcut. The shortcut then uses existing actions to transcribe the audio, then the new smart actions to compare this to the notes.
Likewise, a shortcut could be used to add the text date and time, then summarize everything and send an email to someone.
The application of new and improved shortcuts offers endless possibilities, and smart actions are sure to benefit students and professional users, since meetings could be processed as conferences in the example of Apple.
Overall, iOS 26 offers a multitude of new features that will help you do the work more easily. Whether it is live translation functionality to communicate with international partners or call screening capacity, which filters spam appellants, there is something for almost everyone.
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