I didn’t buy my iPhone 16 Pro Last year, keeping in mind the future versions of iOS – I was mainly concerned with the aging battery in my iPhone 13, and upgraded to better cameras and performance techniques. But one of the benefits of upgrading any smartphone continues access to new software, and with iOS 26, there is a growing list of features that will work only when you are the owner of your own iPhone 15 Pro or later. This is cutoff Apple wiseA suit of AI tools that has been controversial so far – mostly because Apple has delayed the promised characteristics, such as relevant awareness for Siri.

In the interim, there are many iOS 26 features that please the owners of new iPhones. There are some relatively niche, but the people I am going today can bring a meaningful difference to you, it depends on what your day-to-day existence looks.

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Visual intelligence for screenshot

For anything, ever search

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Effectively, this is the answer of Apple for Google’s circle to search for Android. When it premiered in iOS 18.2, the visual intelligence that you could indicate your camera was limited, which was only useful only. With iOS 26, it becomes an alternative whenever you take a screenshot, also – you can ask the questions of the grip, and search on the apps such as Google, Etsy and Pinterest. If a clear phenomenon occurs in an image such as a concert, convenience can detect it and suggest adding day, time and/or space to a calendar entry. Once iOS 26 is wider, expects to see a lot of passengers in your messages.

It is not quite convenient as a circle to find visual intelligence, which can be pressed for a long time the navigation handle of Android at any time. But both devices allow you to find out specific items to search, so comparison is very suitable.

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Live translation in first-party communication apps

Let’s hope that it catchs subtlety

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In another bid to hold with Google, iOS 26 adds automatic translation to the phone, facetime and message app. It was very impressive during Apple Wwdc 2025 The keynote speaker, although the company used pre-ridden (and possibly scripted) demonstrations. I am eager to see how well it works in real-world conditions-the discomfort app often misses the nuances of reference like idioms. The results can be particularly entertaining in Quebec, where a lot of oath words are based on French Catholicism.

Speaking about, it is relatively limited to start the language support. Messages The app supports English, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese. phone And face time Apps work with Portuguese of English, French, German, Spanish and Brazil, but only in one conversation. Even within these obstacles, many dialects are being released – for example, no cubes is French or Mexican Spanish.

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Automatic Order Tracking in Apple Wallet

Not required for external devices?

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Apple has actually done an order tracking system in the iOS Wallet App for a few years, but so far, it required active participation from the traders. It was not very attractive to companies with its own tracking systems, or no one likes a platform-neutral option. Often, when I am tracking the package, I will simply use Shopify’s shop app – I don’t have to worry about being on an apple device to find out how close the package is.

To simplify things, iOS 26 automatically scans to track details in its email threads. This, of course, can have a limit in itself, if it is limited to the Apple mail app and does not support the choice of outlook or gmail. But who knows – for people with frequent delivery, this email can be an incentive to switch to customers.

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Automatic reminder tips and sorting

To remember things you had forgotten to remember

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I never needed a lot of two-do apps, because in general, anything that is really important to me is impossible to do or forget it immediately. But even I sometimes use the iOS reminder app, and some people start alive and die by it. I get it, because it remembers some of the burden of remembering what your job, friends and family need from you.

iOS 26 scans your email and message conversations for the tasks you want to add reminderYou can add to a grocery purchasing list including items. To organize things further, the reserves related to each list are automatically sorted into squares. I think both these things are going to be extremely useful for reminder dihards, as we often bomb the flood of communication every day. It is easy to forget that you need to call someone back when you are already picking up your child from school.

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Apple intelligence in shortcut

An unknown country

The shortcut app may be the lowest estimated part of iOS. I do not use it as much as I used to, but if you have patience, you can build some beautiful wide automation to simplify the tasks – my “I am running home” routine is able to text my wife, getting Apple Maps Instructions, and is loading an apple music playlist through a single voice command. It is likely, if it is cooked in iOS, it is a way to automate it through a shortcut.

The iOS 26 version of the app enabling the Apple Intelligence Action, such as image generation or text summary. In fact, I am not interested in what is possible now, but once it is coming to its original AI promises.

I like a shortcut that automatically reshuffles a specific Spotify Playlist when I can tell that I am going on a group ride with my electric unicyca. The possibilities can be spacious, even heavy for the average person – it’s a good thing that people are sharing shortcut ideas online.

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