{"id":253420,"date":"2026-05-22T10:08:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T14:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/22\/12-new-features-apple-quietly-added-in-iphone-updates\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T11:50:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T15:50:17","slug":"12-new-features-apple-quietly-added-in-iphone-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/22\/12-new-features-apple-quietly-added-in-iphone-updates\/","title":{"rendered":"12 new features Apple quietly added in iPhone updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.popsci.com\/diy\/iphone-26-minor-updates\/\">12 new features Apple quietly added in iPhone updates<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.popsci.com\/diy\/iphone-26-minor-updates\/\">https:\/\/www.popsci.com\/diy\/iphone-26-minor-updates\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-22 10:08:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.popsci.com\">www.popsci.com<\/a><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"newsletter-cta-title\"> <\/h2>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph skip\">Get the Popular Science daily newsletter\ud83d\udca1<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph skip\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"pw-incontent-excluded article-paragraph skip\">The major refreshes that Apple gives its software each year get a lot of attention\u2014you can read our round-up of new iOS 26 and macOS 26 features\u2014but there are also plenty of minor updates that appear during the rest of the year as well.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph skip\">These minor updates don\u2019t often include big changes that will significantly affect how you use your devices, but they regularly feature small improvements and tweaks that are well worth knowing about.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph skip\">Listed below you\u2019ll find all the notable upgrades included in iOS 26.3 and iOS 26.4, the two most recent updates pushed out by Apple, besides the usual slew of tweaks and bug fixes. To check for new updates on your iPhone, head to Settings, then select <strong>General  Software Update<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-ios-26-3\">iOS 26.3<\/h2>\n<p>Switch over to Android more easily. Screenshot: Apple <\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph skip\"><strong>Limit precise location:<\/strong> iOS 26.3 lets you limit how closely your carrier can track your location, though the carriers themselves also need to add support for the feature. Apple says it\u2019s like the difference between knowing which neighborhood you\u2019re in, and which address you\u2019re at: Choose <strong>Mobile Service  Mobile Data Options<\/strong> from Settings to find it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph skip\"><strong>Transfer to Android:<\/strong> Apple is lending Google a hand and making it a little more convenient for you to switch over to Android, if you\u2019ve had enough of Apple phones. When an iPhone is in a transfer state, an Android handset can move data over from it, and you can find this from iOS Settings by selecting <strong>General<\/strong> and then <strong>Transfer or Reset iPhone<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph skip\"><strong>Weather and Astronomy wallpaper:<\/strong> Wallpaper options get a refresh in this update as well, with Weather and Astronomy breaking out into their own categories so you can get to these types of backdrop more quickly. Open Settings, then select <strong>Wallpaper<\/strong> to make changes\u2014you can either customize the existing iOS&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.popsci.com\/diy\/iphone-26-minor-updates\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>12 new features Apple quietly added in iPhone updates https:\/\/www.popsci.com\/diy\/iphone-26-minor-updates\/ Publish Date: 2026-05-22 10:08:00 Source&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":253422,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.popsci.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/new-iphone-updates.jpg?quality=85&w=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[120],"tags":[69,77],"class_list":["post-253420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-iphone","tag-ios","tag-ios-26"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253420"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253420"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":253423,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253420\/revisions\/253423"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}