Every Single New Feature in iOS 26, iPadOS 26, and macOS Tahoe

Apple upgraded its entire OS family this week and has now published the comprehensive lists of every new feature and improvement they have brought to users as a result. There are a lot of them.

One big distinction between the Apple ecosystem and others is the amount of people that upgrade to the new OSs when they release and the speed with which they do it. We're not immune at RSN either: despite IBC being underway and the loss of any device being more critical than usual, we still piled in with phone, iPad, and Mac updates as soon as we humanly could.

Apple OS adoption vs Android: who upgrades faster?

So do a lot of other people. By January 2025, 68% of iPhone users were on iOS 18 which was released only four months previously. By contrast only 28.5% of Android users had moved onto Android 15 nearly a year after its release. Meanwhile, 7% of Mac users were using masOS Tahoe while it was still in beta!

That translates into a lot of interest about what's in the new v26 OSs, and Apple's just released the full list of what's new in iOS 26, iPadOS 26, and macOS Tahoe. The documents are interesting reading too. Even if you've spent the last few days playing with the software there's a chance you might have missed something; some way the overhauled Spotlight works on the Mac or a new feature in CarPlay.

Full Fat Feature Lists

We were going to reformat the PDFs and just paste them below, but each document is about 7000 words+ and that translates into a lot of scrolling. So, here are some links to the originals.

And for the record we still haven't got over the disappearance of Launchpad...

• iOS 26: All New Features
• iPadOS 26: All New Features
• macOS Tahoe: All New Features

WatchOS 26 doesn't seem to have been given the same treatment as yet, but there's a page regarding the updates here. Same with visionOS.