{"id":49911,"date":"2025-11-04T15:51:04","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T20:51:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=49911"},"modified":"2026-02-09T14:01:59","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T19:01:59","slug":"ios-26-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/04\/ios-26-1\/","title":{"rendered":"iOS 26.1"},"content":{"rendered":"

Juli Clover<\/a> (release notes<\/a>, security<\/a>, enterprise<\/a>, developer<\/a>):<\/p>\n

iOS 26.1 adds a toggle to increase the opacity of Liquid Glass for those who want less translucency. Alarms and Timers now require a swipe to turn them off, and there’s finally an option to turn off the Lock Screen Camera swipe.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n

Beta Profiles<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Apple brings back transparent navigation buttons in Photos.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Steve Troughton-Smith<\/a>:<\/p>\n

There are so many critical framework fixes in iOS\/macOS 26.1 that if you were planning on debuting an app with a 26.0 deployment target, I would shift that to a minimum of 26.1. Even so, there’s yet not enough here to help me get Broadcasts (and other apps) out the door.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n

Ryan Christoffel<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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iOS 26.1 beta 4 now lets you disable the Camera swipe gesture entirely.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Lee Bennett<\/a>:<\/p>\n

I’m admittedly a little bemused by the new setting to disable the swipe right to left gesture to open the camera from the lock screen. Clearly I’m not the norm. I’ve never known a time I mistakenly opened the camera this way. In fact, I replaced the lock screen button for the camera with a shortcut action to log water consumption. The swipe gesture is almost always how I intentionally get to the camera these days.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n

I always use the Action button now, so it would be nice to be able to configure the swipe to do something else.<\/p>\n\n

John Voorhees<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Apple has also refined Local Capture for the iPhone and iPad, which is great. Local capture allows you to record high-quality audio and video from an iPhone or iPad, while simultaneously on a video call using a service like Zoom. It’s a feature that podcasters wanted for many years, and although I was excited to find that Apple had listened to our annual requests with iOS and iPadOS 26, the implementation fell a little short because it didn’t allow for gain control, making it difficult to get a properly balanced recording with some microphones. Likewise, there was no option in the first iteration of the feature to pick where your recording was saved.<\/p>\n

With iOS and iPadOS 26.1, both issues have been addressed sooner than many of us expected, which is fantastic.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Juli Clover<\/a>:<\/p>\n

We’ve complied a list of all of the new features in iOS 26.1, down to the tiniest interface change.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n

Adam Engst<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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If you’re already running version 26 of any of these operating systems, you should update soon. The new features, security improvements, and unspecified bug fixes feel worthwhile given that we’re coming from an initial release with just a handful of high-profile bug fixes in 26.0.1.<\/p>\n

However, if you haven’t yet upgraded, I recommend holding off until version 26.2, due out in mid-December.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Previously:<\/p>\n