After nearly four months of beta testing, iOS 26 and iPadOS 26 have finally been released to all users with a compatible iPhone and iPad.
If you don’t want to get these new iOS and iPadOS versions on your devices, here’s what you need to do to stay on iOS 18.
iOS 26 is now available for all users with an iPhone 11 and newer. Here’s a list of settings to change and things you should do after installing iOS 26 on your iPhone.
Apple released iOS & iPadOS 18.6.2 one week ago, fixing security issues that needed fixing and helping to ensure its users were well-protected from vulnerabilities that may have been actively exploited by bad actors in the wild.
Learn how to turn off notifications from Apple's Wallet on your iPhone for marketing messages such as promotions, discounts and special offers.
I have spent the last 15 years owning jailbroken iPhones, iPod touches, iPads, and even Apple TVs. At the very beginning, it was my friends who encouraged me to try it. I was always skeptical, thinking it would cause issues with my device or void my warranty with Apple. But after I tried it, I never really looked back.
When you’re in a phone call with somebody that you know and who is in your Contacts app, iOS is supposed to scale the contact’s photo to fill the screen for as long as you’re in the middle of that call. In some cases, it doesn’t.
Back in May, we showed you a duo of utilities that harnessed Ian Beer’s CVE-2025-24203 vulnerability writeup to bring MacDirtyCow-like tweaks to newer firmware without a jailbreak. One of those tools was called dirtyZero.
Apple stopped signing iOS 18.6 on Thursday, just one week after releasing iOS 18.6.1 alongside watchOS 11.6.1 to enable the Blood Oxygen monitoring feature on Apple Watches that were previously barred from offering the feature to end users under an International Trade Commission ruling – but later circumvented by a U.S. Customs and Border Protection ruling that patent troll Masimo is now once again suing over.
When Apple released iOS 18.6.1 and watchOS 11.6.1 last week, bringing Blood Oxygen monitoring to previously excluded models following a U.S. Customs and Border Protection approval that allowed Apple to move forward with the “redesigned” experience on those devices, we had a gut feeling that patent troll Masimo wouldn’t let that go very far without a fight.
Learn how to get a notification when your iPhone uses Adaptive Power Mode to extend your battery life, which may cause apps to run slower and the device to lag.
Find out what to do if you already have sufficient free space on your iPhone or iPad but still can’t download and install the new iOS update.
iOS 26 changes the iPhone's Always-on display settings by automatically applying a blur to your Lock Screen wallpaper when the screen is dimmed, but you can revert it.