To update your iPhone to iOS 26, go to Settings > General > Software Update, and hit the Update Now button. Agree to the ...

Last year, the Unicode Consortium previewed some of the new emoji that are expected to be added to the iPhone with iOS 26.4 ...

Though StatCounter is a useful gauge of iOS 26's popularity (or lack thereof), adoption rates can be difficult to measure.

Apple released iOS 26.2 on Friday, Dec. 12 and, alongside it, iOS 18.7.3. However, reports emerged that while it was installing nicely on iPhones that couldn’t run iOS 26, nobody else was getting it.

Many iPhone owners may be resisting iOS 26. But this latest version does carry with it important security updates that will keep your phone protected.