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iOS 26 beta 4 arrives, with Liquid Glass tweaks and AI news summaries


Apple launches iOS 26 beta 4 for developers with updates to Liquid Glass and AI notification summaries, ahead. A public beta is expected later this week.

Earlier this year, Apple was forced to put its AI notification summaries on pause after complaints by the BBC, which said the feature had misrepresented one of its headlines. The AI-powered news summary claimed Luigi Mangione, the person charged with the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, had died by suicide, which wasn’t true. Release notes for beta 4 have not been published on Apple’s Developer website at the time of publication, so there is likely more to be spotted, especially in terms of minor bug fixes and performance improvements.

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