Learn how to set an image or color-based animation as the chat background in the Apple Messages app on iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Watch.

The watchOS 26 operating system permit the Apple Watch to use the Control Center toggles from its paired iPhone for the first time.

Find out how to disable the Liquid Glass transparency effect in Control Center, Lock Screen, and everywhere else on your Apple devices.

Apple updated parental controls in iOS 26 and other operating systems with new child safety features, like permission to text new numbers.

Apple's upcoming watchOS 26 update will let Apple Watch owners dismiss notifications with a wrist flick gesture, but only on certain models.

Learn how to download and install the latest watchOS 26 developer beta to experience all the new features on your Apple Watch.

Here is a brief overview of the devices that each of Apple's major new software updates announced at WWDC 2025 will support.

Following the conclusion of its WWDC25 keynote, Apple has released the first developer betas of iOS 26 and its other renamed operating systems.

Apple has previewed the overhauled user interfaces across the iPhone and other devices, known as Liquid Glass, at the WWDC2025 today.

A claimed device compatibility list for watchOS 26 indicates the update will support the same models as the current Apple Watch software.

watchOS 26 should support third-party widgets in the Control Center, allowing the Apple Watch to go beyond the built-in toggles and tiles.