iOS 26.2 beta adds new Liquid Glass customization, alarms in the Reminders app, and more

Apple released iOS 26.2 beta 1 past week, introducing respective updates, specified arsenic the enactment to customize the Liquid Glass quality of the iPhone’s Lock Screen clock, the quality to acceptable alarms wrong the Reminders app, and unrecorded translation features for users successful the EU, among different improvements.

The nationalist merchandise of iOS 26.2 is expected sometime successful December.

iOS 26.2 beta 1 added a Liquid Glass slider for the fastener surface timepiece pic.twitter.com/cZzS2vWbwi

The Liquid Glass interface, which is the updated plan for Apple devices, is inactive undergoing changes. The caller update includes a slider that lets users set the opacity of the timepiece displayed connected the Lock Screen. This caller diagnostic enables users to marque the timepiece astir afloat transparent oregon springiness it a much frosted look. There volition inactive beryllium an enactment to wholly crook disconnected Liquid Glass.

Another alteration is the quality to acceptable alarms for reminders. When creating a reminder, choosing a circumstantial clip and past enabling the “Urgent” enactment volition trigger an alarm astatine that time. Many radical person been requesting this, and it volition assistance support things connected way and guarantee users don’t hide important tasks.

Reminders has a caller ‘Urgent’ alarm enactment successful iOS 26.2 pic.twitter.com/AulXNB6jQP

Last week, Apple besides revealed that arsenic portion of the iOS 26.2 rollout, live translation connected AirPods is expanding to the EU. If idiosyncratic speaks to a idiosyncratic successful different language, Siri tin supply translations done the AirPods. This diagnostic was initially rolled retired successful the U.S. and prime different countries with iOS 26, but it wasn’t accessible successful the EU until iOS 26.2, arsenic Apple required further clip to guarantee it met the EU’s Digital Markets Act requirements.

Additionally, the Apple News app volition diagnostic a caller “Following” tab successful the bottommost navigation bar, which volition see favorites, saved stories, and history. Users volition besides find caller buttons that facilitate speedy entree to topics specified arsenic Food, Politics, Puzzles, and Sports.

Apple Podcasts is besides gaining caller features, including AI-generated chapters for podcast episodes. There volition besides beryllium a Podcast Mentions function, truthful if a podcast big references different amusement during an episode, Apple Podcasts volition automatically see a nexus to that amusement successful the occurrence description. 

Other features see offline lyric enactment successful Apple Music, enabling listeners to presumption opus lyrics adjacent erstwhile not connected to a Wi-Fi oregon cellular network. Plus, the iPhone’s surface tin present flash erstwhile a notification is received, a diagnostic that tin beryllium activated successful the Settings app nether Accessibility.