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New York Times
5 hours ago
- New York Times
Apple Just Showed Off a New Look for iPhones. Here's Everything Coming in iOS 26.
Apple's operating systems are getting new names. If you're confused by the jump from iOS 18 to iOS 26, that's understandable. From now on, iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and the rest of Apple's operating systems will be named by the year after their release. This is similar to how car companies assign model years to vehicles. For example, the version of iOS announced at WWDC is iOS 26, and the one coming out next fall will be iOS 27. Apple will continue its naming tradition for macOS by choosing California locations — macOS 26 will be known as Tahoe. Your iPhone is getting a sleek, transparent redesign. At its launch in 2007, the design of iOS took cues from physical objects: The YouTube icon, for instance, was an old-timey TV, the dock at the bottom of the screen looked like metal mesh, and materials such as woodgrain and brushed steel appeared throughout apps. iOS 7 in 2013 moved iPhones away from that skeuomorphic design toward a cleaner, flat-color design. With the launch of iOS 26, Apple bridges the gap between those styles with a design that has touchable physicality while still being clear and easy to understand. The company calls this new design language Liquid Glass. iPhone menus will have a luminous, frosted-glass appearance with subtle touches of color. Many elements are more rounded and have a subtle sense of depth. And the 'liquid' part is quite so: Menus and buttons will respond to your touch, sometimes breaking apart into new menus. The new look supports light and dark modes, as well as a new all-clear mode that applies a semitransparent appearance to your iPhone's interface. All of Apple's devices are getting the Liquid Glass look: Macs, iPads, Apple TV, and Apple Watch will use the same design language and share features. Apple said that this was the first time it had done a total redesign across all of its devices. Apple Real-time call and text translation will make chatting easier. In Messages, texts will automatically be translated into the recipient's preferred language. In FaceTime calls, you'll hear the speaker's language and see translations displayed as text. This will work in regular phone calls, as well: You and the caller will each hear your preferred spoken language, even if the person you're calling doesn't use an iPhone. (This feature will be available only for iPhones that can run Apple Intelligence, meaning the iPhone 15 Pro and later models.) Real-time translation in Messages will support English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Brazilian Portuguese, Spanish, and simplified Chinese. In FaceTime, translation is limited to English, French, German, Brazilian Portuguese, and Spanish. Real-time translation is one of the most compelling applications of artificial intelligence, but executing it well is challenging. Google fumbled its own live translation demo onstage at its Google I/O developers conference in May. We'll have to see if Apple is able to make this tricky feature work successfully. Camera controls will be easier to use, and the Photos app brings back familiar features. When you open the iPhone Camera app, you'll be able to choose between shooting video or taking still photos. You can access other options, such as panoramas, with a swipe. More advanced options are hidden but readily accessible. iOS 18 introduced some confusing changes to the Photos app and made it more difficult to find your library. Good news: In iOS 26, Apple is bringing back tabs for your Library and Collections. Messages group chats get upgraded with custom backgrounds and polls. Group chats are their own social networks, and now you'll be able to personalize them even more. You can choose your own background to share in a group chat, or choose from Apple's premade dynamic backgrounds. Backgrounds sync between devices, so when you open a conversation on your iPad or Mac, you'll get the same experience. If your group chat struggles to come to a consensus on, say, where to eat or the nature of existence, you can create a poll to settle disputes. Members can cast their votes and add their own options to the poll, too. And typing indicators are coming to group chats to display when someone is responding, which might make the family discourse a little less chaotic. (Maybe.) Apple Spam messages get easier to dodge. The Messages app can now shunt texts from unknown numbers into their own place outside of your inbox. You can respond to them or ignore them. For calls from unknown numbers, your iPhone can now automatically answer and ask the caller for their name and the nature of the call. Only after the caller provides this information will your iPhone ring. A new Hold Assist feature can save you from being on endless hold. iOS 26 can also detect that on-hold music is playing and offer to keep your place in line. If you accept, you can close the app and go about your business. When you're taken off hold, iOS 26 will detect it, alert you, and tell the person that you're on your way back. Use your iPhone and Apple TV for at-home karaoke. You can now use iPhones as microphones to sing along with Apple Music on Apple TV. Your voice is amplified through the TV, and friends can respond with emoji reactions and pick the next track. On the iPhone, Apple Music supports new animated album art on the lock screen and displays lyric translations and pronunciations. (I'm personally excited to understand what my new favorite Korean folktronic album is actually about.) CarPlay's redesign lets you focus on driving. CarPlay, which turns your dashboard into a touchscreen interface, will now keep important information such as maps front and center even when you receive calls or notifications. (No more getting lost because you decided to answer a loved one's call.) You can now use widgets and view live activities, such as flight status, on the display, too. You can share flight updates from the Wallet app. Digital boarding passes are being refreshed with a new design. You can also view airport information and share flight status from within the Wallet app, so family or friends can see where you are. You can take a screenshot to search what's on your screen. Previously Apple's Visual Intelligence could view the world through your camera, doing things such as identifying businesses and capturing event details from posters. With iOS 26, when you take a screenshot you'll have added options along the bottom to access Visual Intelligence. If you screenshot an event announcement, for example, Apple Intelligence can record the details. On stage, Apple showed off using Visual Intelligence to find a lamp that had been discussed in a post on social media. These features are similar to Google's Circle to Search feature for Android, and they reflect a larger effort on Apple's part to expand the context that Apple Intelligence tools can access. Apple is launching a new all-in-one gaming app. The new Games app provides easy access to browse the games you already own and view titles available through the Apple Arcade subscription service. The app also attempts to streamline finding friends for multiplayer games and offers a centralized place for stats and leaderboards. In addition, Apple is creating a Challenge mode, so you can compete against your friends to get the top score in single-player games. Like the updated Messages and Phone apps, the new Games app is cross-platform: You'll be able to see stats and invite friends to play on macOS as well. But the smarter Siri is still a ways off. At last year's WWDC, Apple previewed a vision for Siri that used AI to understand both your personal context — who you know and what you do — and what you're looking at on your phone. This year, Apple said that those features weren't yet up to snuff, and that the company would have more to share on that later this year.
Yahoo
7 hours ago
- Yahoo
Jury convicts St. Paul man in 2023 shootout at White Bear Lake bar
A jury has found a St. Paul man guilty of exchanging a flurry of gunshots with another man outside a White Bear Lake bar in 2023 after an argument over a spilled drink. Kardell Baraka Otae Jackson, 51, was convicted Friday in Ramsey County District Court of all three charges against him: second-degree assault and two counts of possession of a firearm or ammunition by a prohibited person. The verdict followed a two-day trial before Judge Kellie Charles. Jackson was taken into custody after the verdict, and sentencing is scheduled for July 28. His attorney, assistant public defender Tyler DeHaven, said in an email Monday after a request for comment, 'Mr. Jackson is disappointed in the outcome, but will continue to explore his legal options.' Jackson and Charles Edward Stevens-Thigpen fired a total of 13 rounds at each other in the parking lot of Doc's Landing, including one that grazed a 48-year-old man who was sitting in the bar. A bullet was found lodged in a dart machine, and three bullet holes were discovered in the bar's roofline. Stevens-Thigpen, 37, of St. Paul, pleaded guilty to second-degree assault in July and faced a three-year prison term because he had no prior felony convictions. He was given three years of probation at his March sentencing after his attorney argued he was not the primary aggressor. According to the charging documents, officers were called to the bar along White Bear Avenue just north of Interstate 694 shortly before 1 a.m. Sept. 24, 2023. The shooters had fled but were soon identified as Stevens-Thigpen and Jackson. Surveillance video showed that Stevens-Thigpen and Jackson got into a 'heated dispute' inside the bar. At one point, Jackson held a pool cue as if he was going to strike Stevens-Thigpen with it. Two women and a man intervened and blocked Stevens-Thigpen and Jackson from one another. Jackson ran to his Chevrolet Tahoe and grabbed a gun, while Stevens-Thigpen grabbed one from his GMC Denali. When he rounded a corner of the bar, Jackson fired off a shot at him, and the two men exchanged gunfire, the charges say. Stevens-Thigpen nearly shot a woman who ran toward Jackson's Tahoe. Jackson helped her get into the SUV before he again shot at Stevens-Thigpen. Stevens-Thigpen 'grimaced' and began to favor his right leg, the charges say. As Jackson and the woman fled the parking lot, Stevens-Thigpen fired three to four more rounds at the Tahoe. He ran to the Denali and also fled. Stevens-Thigpen voluntarily went to the police department two days later, turning over a Smith and Wesson 9mm handgun to police when he arrived. He said he went to a doctor a day after the shooting because of severe bleeding from a gunshot to his thigh, and that his family convinced him to talk to police. He told police he was at the bar when he bumped into a table, knocking over a glass of soda onto his ex-girlfriend's sister. He said that caused an argument with the woman, who was Jackson's girlfriend, and Jackson intervened. Charges filed in drive-by shooting outside Burnsville High School graduation Under Patel, FBI heightens focus on violent crime, illegal immigration. Other threats abound, too Lakeville man sentenced in first wage theft criminal conviction in state St. Paul fire inspector charged in assault of 13-year-old on way to school Police: Gunshots followed Burnsville High School graduation ceremony, but no injuries 'The man told me that he got something for my (expletive) ass and he's gonna pop me,' Stevens-Thigpen said at his July 8 plea hearing. Stevens-Thigpen said he went to his Denali to get his 9mm as a 'precaution.' 'I believe four shots were fired before I fired my first shot,' Stevens-Thigpen said at his plea hearing. Jackson was arrested Sept. 27 in the parking lot of his workplace. His Tahoe had three bullet holes to its passenger side. He denied firing a gun at the bar. Officers executed a search warrant on his Tahoe and recovered a Glock 9mm handgun. Jackson is not allowed to possess a firearm because of a previous felony domestic assault conviction.
Gizmodo
8 hours ago
- Gizmodo
Welcome to the New Mac, Now With More ‘Windows'
If Microsoft's Windows operating system popularized the multi-application interface, then Apple is trying to imagine what your floating tabs would look like if they were truly see-through glass panes. MacOS has jumped from macOS 15 Sequoia all the way to macOS 26, and it will sport a new look to bring it in line with every other Apple OS. There's not much need to worry. Apple showed at WWDC25 how macOS 26 will still be very familiar to anybody with experience with Apple's UI, but there are a few new features that will make Mac a little easier to use alongside an iPhone. Taking a page from the Apple Vision Pro and its 'glassmorphism'-type aesthetic, everything on Mac now sports a 'Liquid Glass' look, in line with iOS 26 and iPadOS 26. This means all your regular borders around your open windows are semi-transparent. The menu bar is now completely transparent, while the Dock is similarly changed to have this glassy look. This version of macOS, dubbed Tahoe in honor of the freshwater lake in the Sierra Nevada mountains, will also have window buttons with more-rounded, bubble-like designs. If you were hoping for a splash of vibrancy on your desktop, there are more options to color your various folders, and you can add customized emojis to give more visual flair to your desktop. Apple was adamant that Mac users want more 'Continuity' with iPhone. Last year brought iPhone mirroring, but now users will be able to use their Phone app synced from their iPhone. Users will be able to see their Contacts and host both audio and video calls. This new Mac app also works with live translations and call screening introduced on iOS 26. If you have your iPhone nearby your Mac, macOS 26 will also provide quick updates about your incoming Uber ride or Calendar events. You'll be able to take actions on your iPhone from these Live Activity popups through the iPhone mirroring app. If you're one of those Mac users who often forgets Spotlight exists, Apple hopes you'll find it far more useful with enhanced controls for searching for that one PDF or image. Better yet, Spotlight should also support third-party cloud storage services. Spotlight should include more capabilities to take actions without having to pick up a mouse or move to the trackpad. You should be able to take specific actions in some apps, like sending an email or creating a note. In apps that work with Apple's API, you may be able to take more complex actions. Apple showed how Spotlight could find a specific layer in a photo editing app using Spotlight. Notably, Apple didn't relate this as any kind of newfangled 'AI' capability, despite the feature having strong agentic undertones. All your regular widgets across Apple's ecosystem, like your stock tickers or weather app, will have this kind of digital glass look that will showcase a modicum of transparency for what's behind each application. This is most apparent with the revised Safari browser. Apple's older grey box now sports an address bar that acts more like a windowpane. Sidebars and toolbars similarly showcase more of what's happening underneath. The new look may take some getting used to, but despite its glassy appearance, not so much is changing that you won't be able to find all your usual functions. I personally don't see much wrong with the glass-like texture now overriding the entire Apple ecosystem, though it could make the experience feel same-y whether I'm diving into my Mac for heads-down work or tapping on my iPad mini for quick note-taking. Other than looks, the Mac itself isn't getting so many obvious enhancements. While the iPhone is getting a Preview-type app and the iPad may be better at multitasking, the macOS 26 can instead look forward to Messages that will let users set a background image and create polls. The Messages app will facilitate new AI translation capabilities as well. If you were one of those strange people who still used AI-generated Genmojis after the first try, then you'll be happy to know the update will let you combine two emojis in one. We're standing ready to see what a combination of the grapes and poop emojis looks like.
CNET
9 hours ago
- CNET
Apple Unveils MacOS Tahoe 26 With Liquid Glass Design, New Continuity and Spotlight Features
Apple previewed the next version of its Mac operating system at WWDC 2025 on Monday. Set to arrive this fall, MacOS Tahoe 26 will feature Apple's Liquid Glass design, a couple new Continuity features, an update to Spotlight search and the new Games app. Here's what you need to know. MacOS 15 Sequoia to MacOS Tahoe 26 No, you didn't slip into a coma for a decade and miss 11 versions of MacOS between last year's MacOS 15 and MacOS 26. Apple is unifying version numbers across its various operating systems, so everything from iOS to MacOS this year will be version 26 to carry you into 2026. As for the Tahoe part, MacOS 26 is not named after a Chevy truck. It continues Apple's tradition starting in 2013 with Mavericks of naming its Mac operating system after a scenic area of California. CNET Liquid Glass design The Dock, sidebars, toolbars and other elements on your Mac will appear glassy and more reflective with Tahoe, but the biggest change to the look of the desktop is the disappearance of the menu bar. It's still there but just harder to see. Like the clear water of Lake Tahoe, the menu bar is completely transparent with MacOS Tahoe 26. MacOS Tahoe 26 also offers more ways to customize the look of your Mac, including the ability to choose a color other than light blue for folders. You can not only change the color of folders, but you can also add an icon to them. This is a developing story. See our live blog for full details on everything being announced at Apple's WWDC 2025.
Engadget
9 hours ago
- Engadget
macOS Tahoe 26 will bring Apple's new Liquid Glass UI to your desktop
So long macOS Sequoia, hello macOS Tahoe 26. Apple's next desktop operating system will feature the company's Liquid Glass UI, but at this point, it doesn't look like there will be any truly transformative features like last year's iPhone mirroring. But hey, at least Apple isn't trying to make us excited about widgets again. Just like the rest of Apple's new software, Tahoe's version number has also been updated to reflect the upcoming year — previously, we expected it to be macOS 16. While that may take some getting used to, it's easier than trying to remember the different version numbers across Apple's platforms. Developing...
