{"id":71819,"date":"2025-10-09T12:53:59","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T04:53:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/?p=71819"},"modified":"2025-10-09T12:53:59","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T04:53:59","slug":"new-versions-of-apples-software-platforms-now-available","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/2025\/10\/09\/new-versions-of-apples-software-platforms-now-available\/","title":{"rendered":"New versions of Apple\u2019s software platforms now available"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Apple released new features and capabilities across each of its software platforms \u2014 iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, tvOS, and visionOS \u2014 and introduced a beautiful new design with Liquid Glass that brings even greater consistency across the Apple ecosystem.<\/strong><\/div>\n
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New Apple Intelligence features help break down language barriers with Live Translation, extend the capabilities of visual intelligence, and bring personalized, motivational audio insights with Workout Buddy on Apple Watch. Users will also find a range of updates across apps and experiences they use every day, including helpful ways to screen phone calls, customize messages on iPhone, and create delightful spatial scenes that bring photos to life. iPad users will experience an entirely new powerful and intuitive windowing system, and Mac gets the biggest update ever to Spotlight. Apple Watch introduces sleep score to give users a better understanding of sleep quality, plus Apple Vision Pro now features widgets and all-new Personas that are more natural and familiar.<\/div>\n

A New Software Design with Liquid Glass<\/strong><\/h2>\n
A beautiful\u00a0new software design<\/a>\u00a0makes apps and system experiences more expressive and delightful while remaining instantly familiar. For the very first time, the new design extends across iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, and tvOS all at once to establish even more harmony while maintaining the elements that make each operating system unique. A new translucent material called Liquid Glass reflects and refracts its surroundings while dynamically transforming to help bring greater focus to content. Liquid Glass delivers a new level of vitality across controls, navigation, app icons, widgets, and more in both Apple and third-party apps.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Apple Intelligence Elevates the User Experience Across Devices<\/strong><\/h2>\n
Building on the powerful set of existing features, new\u00a0Apple Intelligence<\/a> capabilities elevate the user experience across iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, and Apple Vision Pro. Apple Intelligence helps users seamlessly communicate across languages with Live Translation in Messages, FaceTime, Phone, and with AirPods.<\/div>\n
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With updates to visual intelligence, users can take a screenshot and ask ChatGPT questions about what they\u2019re looking at on their screen to learn more, as well as search Google, Etsy, or other supported apps to find similar images and products.4<\/sup>\u00a0Users can now create a Genmoji by combining multiple emoji and tap into ChatGPT in Image Playground to unlock new image styles.<\/div>\n
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Apple Intelligence also enhances the fitness experience on Apple Watch, iPhone, and AirPods with Workout Buddy, providing personalized, spoken motivation during workouts.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Apple Intelligence helps users seamlessly communicate across languages with Live Translation in Messages, FaceTime, and Phone.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n
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Additionally, Shortcuts can now tap into Apple Intelligence models directly to accelerate workflows. The on-device foundation model at the core of Apple Intelligence is also available to developers, with apps already offering users new intelligent, privacy-protected features that can even be experienced when offline. For example, Streaks intelligently suggests and automatically categorizes tasks in a user\u2019s to-do list; CARROT Weather provides free, unlimited conversation around weather insights, all in the app\u2019s signature tone; and Detail: AI Video Editor helps creatives by generating teleprompter scripts from outlines or existing text.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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iOS 26 Improves the Features Users Rely on Every Day<\/strong><\/h2>\n
Featuring the new design with Liquid Glass,\u00a0iOS 26<\/a> brings more customization options to the Lock Screen, including a sleek adaptive time presentation and delightful 3D spatial scenes, as well as enhancements to Camera, Photos, Safari, the Phone app, and more.<\/div>\n
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To help users eliminate distractions and focus on the conversations that matter most, Call Screening can screen calls from unknown numbers, while Hold Assist can hold on the line until a live agent is available.\u00a0In Messages, users can now choose to screen messages from unknown senders, create polls, and add backgrounds to conversations.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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