Apple's iOS 26 update turns album covers into full-screen animations that move while your music plays. With iOS 26, Apple Music users can tap the album art on the Lock Screen to expand it. If the track includes animated artwork, the image starts moving in real time.

OS 26 includes a long list of new features and changes for iPhones. The first iOS 26 developer beta is now available for free with an

Apple released the iOS 26 beta on Monday, shortly after the main WWDC 2025 keynote. I installed it right away, and I can say it’s

Apple’s Liquid Glass UI brings big, bold and, ocassionally, beautiful changes to the interface. But readability and accessibility takes a backseat.

Every year, iOS is one of the star attractions of Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference keynote. It's our first official look at new features and other changes that are coming to iPhones in the fall. The 2025 WWDC keynote was no exception, and the most immediate change is to the iOS naming system.

A last-minute iOS 26 report says Apple’s Liquid Glass UI is coming in time for the groundbreaking iPhone 20 design coming in 2027.

It's now claimed that Apple's previously rumored AI-based battery management system for iOS 26 will be introduced at the iPhone 17 Air launch.

Apple's annual summer software event, WWDC, begins Monday at Apple Park HQ in Cupertino, California. CNET will be there to bring you all the news as it happens, including our first impressions of iOS 19/iOS 26. And you can watch the event online from anywhere in the world.