Apple's latest iOS version includes sweeping changes that improve nearly every aspect of your iPhone. These are my favorites.

As part of iOS 26's interface changes, your iPhone lock screen can take on a new look with spatial photos available as the background image for your phone and an adaptive time feature that adjusts the look of the on-screen clock to fit with the other visual elements. We go through all the iOS 26 lock screen changes.

Here are iOS 26 beta 5 changes, new features and release notes that you as an iPhone or iPad user needs to know about.