{"id":2045213,"date":"2025-09-24T01:32:50","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T01:32:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2045213"},"modified":"2025-09-24T01:32:50","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T01:32:50","slug":"ios-26-1-just-landed-to-improve-several-key-apps-and-apple-music-fans-will-be-particularly-happy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/ios-26-1-just-landed-to-improve-several-key-apps-and-apple-music-fans-will-be-particularly-happy\/","title":{"rendered":"iOS 26.1 just landed to improve several key apps \u2013 and Apple Music fans will be particularly happy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"article-body\">\n<hr id=\"17de9428-fe02-4e43-bb31-b8b94353f3dd\"\/>\n<ul id=\"7c70d036-c31d-4587-aca9-aaa45014d6b7\">\n<li><strong>Apple has released the iOS 26.1 beta update<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>This comes with a host of small but significant changes<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>That includes a clever new gesture for the Apple Music app<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr id=\"9d28d332-cd07-4948-b3f4-8360f634da4d\"\/>\n<p id=\"f689b678-3843-4252-8077-a1e260084b19\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.techradar.com\/tag\/apple\" data-auto-tag-linker=\"true\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.techradar.com\/tag\/apple\">Apple<\/a> might have just launched <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.techradar.com\/phones\/ios\/5-hidden-features-in-ios-26-including-imessage-polls-and-faster-reminders\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.techradar.com\/phones\/ios\/5-hidden-features-in-ios-26-including-imessage-polls-and-faster-reminders\">iOS 26<\/a> and all its new features, but there\u2019s more on the table in the form of iOS 26.1, which Apple has just sent out to beta testers. And this beta update comes with a bunch of little tweaks and features that could make a positive difference to your <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.techradar.com\/news\/best-iphone\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.techradar.com\/news\/best-iphone\">iPhone<\/a>, particularly if you <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.techradar.com\/phones\/should-you-upgrade-to-ios-26-some-iphones-owners-are-already-regretting-it-heres-why\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.techradar.com\/phones\/should-you-upgrade-to-ios-26-some-iphones-owners-are-already-regretting-it-heres-why\">regretted upgrading<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>One of the neatest iOS 26.1 beta additions has come to the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.techradar.com\/audio\/apple-music\/automix-is-the-apple-music-feature-that-made-me-love-listening-to-music-on-my-iphone-again\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.techradar.com\/audio\/apple-music\/automix-is-the-apple-music-feature-that-made-me-love-listening-to-music-on-my-iphone-again\">Apple Music<\/a> app. When you\u2019re playing something, you can now change tracks by swiping along the MiniPlayer. This is the small bar at the bottom of the Apple Music app that shows your currently playing music. Run a finger left or right along it and you can skip your audio back or forward a track.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" id=\"elk-seasonal\" href=\"\" data-url=\"\" target=\"_blank\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" data-hl-processed=\"none\"\/><\/p>\n<aside data-block-type=\"embed\" data-render-type=\"fte\" data-skip=\"dealsy\" data-widget-type=\"seasonal\" class=\"hawk-base\"\/>\n<p id=\"f689b678-3843-4252-8077-a1e260084b19-2\">Apple Music isn\u2019t the only app to benefit from the changes in the iOS 26.1 beta. Apple\u2019s Calendar app has been updated to change the way events from your calendars are displayed.<\/p>\n<aside data-component-name=\"Recirculation:ArticleRiver\" data-recirculation-type=\"inline\" data-mrf-recirculation=\"Trending Bar\" data-nosnippet=\"\" class=\"clear-both pt-3 pb-4 mb-4 border-solid border-y border-neutral-300\">\n<span class=\"font-article-heading block pb-3 !text-base font-bold uppercase sm:text-sm text-[#333]\"><br \/>\nYou may like<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<p>In some views, events will have a colored background whose tone depends on the calendar it originates in \u2013 blue for your family calendar and red for your social one, for example \u2013 instead of just a tiny colored icon. That makes it far easier to differentiate between your separate calendar events at a glance.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" id=\"elk-32ce132b-4a0d-4996-a103-464d2a228682\" href=\"\" data-url=\"\" target=\"_blank\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" data-hl-processed=\"none\"\/><\/p>\n<h2 id=\"what-else-is-new-3\">What else is new?<\/h2>\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure inline-layout\" data-bordeaux-image-check=\"\" id=\"471ef002-491d-4a15-8b10-58e1e5e7f31f\">\n<div class=\"image-full-width-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"image-widthsetter\" style=\"max-width:1920px;\">\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:56.25%;\"> <picture data-new-v2-image=\"true\"><source type=\"image\/webp\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/8KbXkUyHfZJd57bgAneCuN-1200-80.jpg.webp 1200w, https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/8KbXkUyHfZJd57bgAneCuN-1024-80.jpg.webp 1024w, https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/8KbXkUyHfZJd57bgAneCuN-970-80.jpg.webp 970w, https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/8KbXkUyHfZJd57bgAneCuN-650-80.jpg.webp 650w, https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/8KbXkUyHfZJd57bgAneCuN-480-80.jpg.webp 480w, https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/8KbXkUyHfZJd57bgAneCuN-320-80.jpg.webp 320w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 1000px) 970px, calc(100vw - 40px)\"\/>\n<\/picture><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption itemprop=\"caption description\" class=\" inline-layout\"><span class=\"credit\" itemprop=\"copyrightHolder\">(Image credit: Lance Ulanoff \/ Future)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p id=\"c468c8b7-c992-46cf-8266-01189c2e6b43\">There\u2019s also an adjustment to Apple\u2019s <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.techradar.com\/phones\/iphone\/im-a-huge-ios-26-fan-but-liquid-glass-has-totally-ruined-one-of-the-iphones-most-important-features\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.techradar.com\/phones\/iphone\/im-a-huge-ios-26-fan-but-liquid-glass-has-totally-ruined-one-of-the-iphones-most-important-features\">Liquid Glass design<\/a> in the Photos app. There, the navigation bar at the bottom of the screen has a more frosted appearance, which makes it easier to see against a light background. It\u2019s not the first time Apple has <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.techradar.com\/phones\/apples-liquid-glass-redesign-in-ios-26-is-cracking-heres-why-thats-a-good-thing\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.techradar.com\/phones\/apples-liquid-glass-redesign-in-ios-26-is-cracking-heres-why-thats-a-good-thing\">tweaked Liquid Glass<\/a> to make it more legible, and it likely won\u2019t be the last time either.<\/p>\n<p>The iOS 26.1 beta update comes with a host of other, smaller changes. That includes a redesigned slider for scrubbing through your videos in the Photos app, new languages for <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.techradar.com\/computing\/artificial-intelligence\/apple-intelligence-explained\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.techradar.com\/computing\/artificial-intelligence\/apple-intelligence-explained\">Apple Intelligence<\/a> and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.techradar.com\/audio\/earbuds-airpods\/apples-live-translation-isnt-exclusive-to-airpods-pro-3-its-coming-to-some-older-earbuds-too\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.techradar.com\/audio\/earbuds-airpods\/apples-live-translation-isnt-exclusive-to-airpods-pro-3-its-coming-to-some-older-earbuds-too\">AirPods Live Translation<\/a>, a wider Tab Bar in <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.techradar.com\/tag\/safari\" data-auto-tag-linker=\"true\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.techradar.com\/tag\/safari\">Safari<\/a>, and more.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, though, the most significant changes \u2013 those to the Music, Calendar and Photos apps \u2013 are all quality-of-life improvements that should make using Apple\u2019s apps easier and more satisfying than before.<\/p>\n<div id=\"slice-container-newsletterForm-articleInbodyContent-64T28xFqR4N6ReuckAMbiF\" class=\"slice-container newsletter-inbodyContent-slice newsletterForm-articleInbodyContent-64T28xFqR4N6ReuckAMbiF slice-container-newsletterForm\">\n<div data-hydrate=\"true\" class=\"newsletter-form__wrapper newsletter-form__wrapper--inbodyContent\">\n<div class=\"newsletter-form__container\">\n<section class=\"newsletter-form__top-bar\"\/>\n<section class=\"newsletter-form__main-section\">\n<p class=\"newsletter-form__strapline\">Sign up for breaking news, reviews, opinion, top tech deals, and more.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>While you can <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.techradar.com\/phones\/ios\/how-to-download-the-ios-26-public-beta\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.techradar.com\/phones\/ios\/how-to-download-the-ios-26-public-beta\">download and install the iOS 26.1 beta<\/a>, you shouldn\u2019t do it on your main device. Things can go wrong with developer betas, and you wouldn\u2019t want to end up losing your important files because the beta caused an issue with your phone. Ensure you <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.techradar.com\/how-to\/how-to-back-up-an-iphone\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.techradar.com\/how-to\/how-to-back-up-an-iphone\">back up your iPhone<\/a> before installing, too, just to be safe.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" id=\"elk-you-might-also-like\" href=\"\" data-url=\"\" target=\"_blank\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\" data-hl-processed=\"none\"\/><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"article-body__section\" id=\"section-you-might-also-like\"><span>You might also like<\/span><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.techradar.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple has released the iOS 26.1 beta update This comes with a host of small but significant changes That includes a clever new gesture for the Apple Music app Apple might have just launched iOS 26 and all its new features, but there\u2019s more on the table in the form of iOS 26.1, which Apple [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2045214,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2045213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/iOS-261-just-landed-to-improve-several-key-apps-\u2013.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2045213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2045213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2045213\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2045214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2045213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2045213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2045213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}