You do not wish to be the final particular person in your group textual content to see Bigfoot — er, the Bigfoot emoji — which simply so occurs to be one in all eight new icons in Apple’s iOS 26.4 replace out this week.
However iOS 26.4 replace has extra to supply than icons of distorted smiley faces, ballet dancers and struggle clouds. Apple pushed out a repair to the keyboard, which in Apple’s launch notes is described as “improved keyboard accuracy when typing rapidly.”
Watch this: Do not Wait: iOS 26.4 Brings New Emoji, Keyboard Fixes, AI Playlists
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Should you’ve been feeling annoyed with making typos in your iPhone, maybe this replace may clean issues out a bit. (Or you already know, there’s all the time new methods to precise frustration with the brand new emoji. Unhappy trombone, maybe?)
This week’s episode of One Extra Factor, embedded above, goes over quite a few main adjustments in iOS 26.4, together with discovering live shows in Apple Music and utilizing AI to design playlists.
It is onerous to maintain up with what music acts are coming to my space, however now Apple Music shows upcoming native live shows, and it isn’t simply well-liked musicians. I noticed Jimmy Eat World is performing in June, and clicking to get tickets takes me to a portal to hook up with the service Bandsintown… and alas, the efficiency was offered out. It let me order tickets from resellers jacking up the worth. Completely feeling emo after that.
There’s additionally a characteristic referred to as Playlist Playground, which makes use of AI to generate playlists based mostly on a immediate you feed it and the music you have a tendency to love.
I requested it to point out me “music for being offended that I did not get tickets to see Jimmy Eat World,” and it got here again with Emotionally Charged Emo Anthems for Lacking Jimmy Eat World. The playlist featured heroes of the early 2000s emo-rock period, comparable to Saves The Day, Taking Again Sunday, New Discovered Glory, Yellowcard and One thing Company.
You possibly can hold tweaking earlier than you save. I needed to inform it so as to add some Jimmy Eat World to the playlist, humorous sufficient. This system is in beta, however you need not have any particular Apple Intelligence-enabled iPhone to strive it — the characteristic is for each Apple Music consumer, together with Apple Music for Android.
In the meantime, the Podcasts app additionally bought a brand new characteristic to incorporate a approach to watch your favourite video variations of podcasts — if the present has it set as much as toggle between audio and video.
However even when that does not excite you sufficient, typically it is simply in regards to the actually easy fixes that make an iOS replace value it. There are new settings to handle fee strategies for adults in a household that makes use of buy sharing. There are accessibility setting enhancements to decreasing brilliant results and decreasing animation for Liquid Glass.
There’s additionally a brand new ambient music widget to faucet into some meditative, calming music at any second. Like when that you must simply relax about that Jimmy Eat World live performance you did not know existed till you up to date your telephone. Sheesh.
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