About visionOS 26 Updates

visionOS 26 introduces new spatial experiences including widgets that integrate into your space, spatial scenes that make your photos come alive and spatial browsing in Safari. All-new Personas and the ability to share digital content with others in the same room make collaboration with Apple Vision Pro even more powerful. And new APIs, device sharing capabilities, native playback of wide field-of-view video from action cameras and support for spatial accessories enable new opportunities for developers, creators and enterprises.

For information on the security content of Apple software updates, please visit https://support.apple.com/100100

visionOS 26

Widgets and persistence

  • Widgets seamlessly integrate into your space, allowing customisation of frame thickness, colour and depth

  • Persistence lets widgets and windowed apps stay where you placed them, even if you restart your Apple Vision Pro

  • The new Widgets app lets you easily discover and access widgets available on your Apple Vision Pro

  • WidgetKit allows developers to create widgets with depth and dimension for their apps

Spatial scenes

  • Spatial scenes let you view your 2D photos with lifelike depth in Photos, Safari and Spatial Gallery

  • The Spatial Scene API lets developers add spatial scenes into their apps for a more immersive experience

Safari

  • Spatial browsing hides distractions, reveals spatial scenes as you scroll and automatically summarises articles on compatible web pages

  • 3D models can be embedded directly in a web page so they can be viewed and interacted with inline

  • Apple Immersive Video and wide field-of-view video can be played directly from web pages

All-new Persona

  • All-new Persona feels more natural and familiar, with enhanced hair, eyelashes, complexion and movement

  • Persona capture process has been updated to include new glasses styles and materials, and allows you to preview your spatial Persona before saving

Shared experiences

  • Share Apple Vision Pro experiences with people in the same room, like watching the latest movie or collaborating with colleagues on a digital whiteboard

Apple Intelligence

  • Image Creation

    • More styles with ChatGPT let you explore additional styles like Oil Painting and Anime, or you can tap Any Style to describe the image and style you want in Image Playground

    • Choose expressions for images of people in Image Playground, making them look happy, shocked and more

    • Personal attributes like hairstyle and facial hair can be modified for Image Playground and Genmoji that are inspired by people from your Photos library

    • Language support expands to English (Australia, Canada, India, Singapore, UK, US), French (Canada, France), German, Italian, Japanese and Spanish (Mexico, Spain) for Image Playground app

  • Apple Intelligence language support expands to English (Australia, Canada, India, Singapore, UK, US), French (Canada, France), German, Italian, Japanese, Korean and Spanish (Mexico, Spain) for Writing Tools, Priority Notifications, Priority Messages in Mail, Smart Reply, Mail summaries, Notification summaries, Genmoji, Image Wand, memory movies, natural language search for photos and videos, and more.

Wide field-of-view video support

  • Wide field-of-view, 180° and 360° video from action cameras like Insta360, GoPro and Canon can be played back natively on Apple Vision Pro using the new Apple Projected Media Profile

Enterprise

  • Team device sharing gives you the ability to easily and securely share devices between team members of their organisation

  • Securely save hand and eye data, vision prescription and accessibility settings on your iPhone so you can quickly start using a different Apple Vision Pro

  • New Enterprise APIs like Protected Content, Stereoscopic Main Camera and Window Follow Mode grant enhanced sensor access and increased control, so businesses can create more powerful spatial experiences

Accessibility

  • Live Recognition in VoiceOver uses on-device machine learning to describe surroundings, find objects, read documents and more

  • Zoom into your surroundings lets you easily see what is in your view, like physical books or people in the room

  • Typing using Dwell and Switch Control is easier and more accurate using QuickPath, which lets you draw a path along the keyboard, and it will predict the word that you’re typing

  • Live Captions shows real-time transcripts of spoken dialogue in more languages, so you can follow along with conversations, FaceTime calls and content with audio narrative

  • Braille Access helps you take notes, read documents, access Live Captions, launch apps and perform various other tasks effortlessly with your connected braille display

  • Accessibility Reader makes text in any app easier to read by giving you new ways to customise text with extensive options for font, colour and spacing, as well as support for Spoken Content

  • Accessibility Nutrition Labels in App Store product pages tell you if accessibility features like VoiceOver, Voice Control and Captions are available within apps and games before you download them

Other

  • Freeform adds the ability to see 3D objects inside a portal on the board for more seamless viewing

  • Messages

    • Screening for unknown senders helps you stay in control of who can contact you, and puts screened messages in a new area of your conversation list so they’re out of your way

    • Backgrounds can be added to conversations to make them more personal, with the option to use built-in backgrounds, your own photos or images made with Image Playground

    • Polls can help you find out everyone’s availability for an upcoming dinner plan or decide on a group gift

    • Typing indicators in groups make it easy to know exactly who is about to chime in

  • Folders can now be created, named and used to group apps on the Home View

  • Control Centre has been redesigned to give you more convenient access to essential controls like Guest User, Travel Mode and more

  • The new Jupiter Environment lets you view Jupiter from one of its moons and speed up its rotation for more spectacular views of its enormous, swirling storms

  • Look to scroll allows you to scroll horizontally or vertically through Safari and other apps just by using your eyes

  • Relay mobile calls from your iPhone to Apple Vision Pro

  • Record live phone calls or FaceTime audio calls to help recall important details. When you start a recording, Vision Pro automatically announces that the call is being recorded, so no one is surprised

  • Unlock and view your iPhone while wearing Apple Vision Pro, even during an immersive experience

  • 90Hz hand tracking makes spatial games feel more fluid and responsive

  • Spatial accessory support for PlayStation VR2 Sense controller and Logitech Muse unlock new ways to create, collaborate and play

  • Game controllers remain visible even when you are in a an Environment, making it easier to stay immersed while playing

  • Digital Prism Correction Feature provides digital image adjustments in Apple Vision Pro in accordance with your prism prescription

For information on the security content of Apple software updates, please visit: https://support.apple.com/100100

Some features may not be available in all regions. For more information, please visit this website: https://www.apple.com/uk/os/visionos/

Software updates, like this one, add new features and improvements that may affect performance and/or battery life. To learn more, please visit: https://support.apple.com/125039

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