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Apple Details iOS 26 Features Like Call Screening, Live Translation, AutoMix, and More

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Apple has updated its iPhone User Guide, and published a series of support documents, with more details about a wide range of new iOS 26 features.

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Here are some of those guides and support documents:


Make sure to check out our ultimate iOS 26 guide for an in-depth overview of everything you need to know about the software update, released on Monday.

Article Link: Apple Details iOS 26 Features Like Call Screening, Live Translation, AutoMix, and More
 
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Finally a guide that doesn't list Liquid Glass as a feature. It's a design, but it doesn't do anything. (Except demonstrate that some of Apple's design employees should find a different field. I'm looking at you who ever swaped center alignment of pin entry windows to left alignment.)
 
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greenbreadmmm said:
The only reason I want to upgrade to IOS 26 is call screening...bummer.
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Were you able to block the numbers if they werent in your contacts or u didnt know who they were? Im asking because I have iphone se and I noticed that when u go to recent calls and you click on the info circle next to the number and scroll down the block contact option is usually at the bottom. WELL on ios 26 on my iphone se it isnt there. The only workaround I found was if you go to settings>apps>phone>scroll to block contacts and theres now a + at the top where you have to manually type in the number you wanna block
 
Cool.. but it's a real shame that Call Screening is region locked. I live in a Latin American country, I have my phone language in Spanish (country name), I have Apple Intelligence and Siri working in Spanish (Mexico) as the options there are more limited, and in order to get Call Screening working I need to set the region of my phone to Mexico or it will not even show the new options.

It does not work in any other latin country other than Mexico even though we all speak Spanish. I've seen at least 50 latin social media creators doing tutorials on how to enable it by changing the region.

And don't get me started on Visual Lookup, it has never worked while in my home country but the moment I set foot in the US it magically starts working without me changing any setting.

Damn Apple, if a feature supports a language just release it to every one.
 
Am I in the minority that doesn't care about call screening? My unknown callers get silenced. If they don't leave a voicemail, they don't get called back. Is that too primitive these days?
 
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Oestreich Dieter said:
Is call screening working for you all? I toggled it on immediately and the next day got two calls that came through and werent screened.
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I noticed that calls that don’t hide their number seem to ring right through, despite not being in my Contacts; however, callers that hide their caller ID completely do end up getting screened.

A little disappointing unless it’s not working as expected (which I imagine it’s not, based on how they word the feature).
 
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repoman016 said:
Am I in the minority that doesn't care about call screening? My unknown callers get silenced. If they don't leave a voicemail, they don't get called back. Is that too primitive these days?
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Same here. Mine have been to silence if I dont know them or if theyre not in my cotnacts
 
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Am I in the minority that doesn't care about call screening? My unknown callers get silenced. If they don't leave a voicemail, they don't get called back. Is that too primitive these days?
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There are people who use their phones for work and have to take calls from numbers not in their contacts. This feature can help them filter out the robo calls and other undesirable calls.

This also helps in non-work cases, like a business you want to talk to using a different number, not yet saved to your contacts. Perfect example, I currently have I believe six numbers which show up for my alarm monitoring company.
 
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Is call screening working for you all? I toggled it on immediately and the next day got two calls that came through and werent screened.
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I got an advertisement text from a local mechanic I used, the number wasn't saved and I never replied to any of the past texts.

It came through as a “priority” message.

Also all these spam political texts have been causing notifications, where i had them ignored in the previous ios version.

Does anything actually improve in these updates anymore?
 
I really dislike the Automix. It jumbles the end and the beginning of my music. Given the eclectic mix of music I listen to it makes for some odd transitions.

Curtis Mayfield does not mix well into Alabama and Alabama into Ice Cube. There's just no way to make it work.
 
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The text screening in the previous version had an option to hide all unknown numbers in another “folder” essentially, off the main screen. Doing this will make you miss any unknown number: someone from your kid’s daycare, coworker that needed to contact you, new contacts, all buried in a pile of spam.

However, you could enable this filter, turn off notifications for unknown numbers, then turn the filter back off and you’d get a happy compromise. Unknown numbers would be displayed on your main text list, but without constant notifications.

Seems like this has been disabled because I’m getting spam text notifications again. Thanks apple.
 
turbineseaplane said:
I think improvements to features would have come if they'd not spent all the resources on Liquid Glass ... which would appear to be exceptionally polarizing thus far.
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It looks like ass with a dark background, and on my 16 pro max sometimes when I unlock my phone, the app icons won’t load until after the animation completes. Clear blobs that pop in with color afterwards. Don’t you love change for the sake of change?
 
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King Cleanass said:
It looks like ass with a dark background, and on my 16 pro max sometimes when I unlock my phone, the app icons won’t load until after the animation completes. Clear blobs that pop in with color afterwards. Don’t you love change for the sake of change?
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Awful. Hate it.

Apple is stubborn as can be, so our only long term hope is that they get lots of backlash and relent a bit.

Honestly, I'm just worried there is nobody there anymore who's actually good at functional, usable, practical design.

It's like their design teams are being led by folks who like to turn all the layer effects in Photoshop just because.
 
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Tried Live Translation on a phone call. Actually amazing. We live in absolutely wonderful times.

And I think Glass is gorgeous.
 
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