Apple today confirmed that iOS 26.2.1 and watchOS 26.2.1 are on the way. The updates will likely be released this week, so keep an eye out as early as today.
While these will be minor software updates, they do include a few things:
The new AirTag requires an iPhone running iOS 26.2.1 or later, according to Apple.
With watchOS 26.2.1, you can use Precision Finding on the Apple Watch Series 9 and later and Apple Watch Ultra 2 and later to find a second-generation AirTag. Precision Finding on the Apple Watch does not work with the original AirTag.
Here is what Precision Finding looks like on the Apple Watch:
While not too much has been reported about the next Apple Watch models, there are a few rumors about potential design changes and watchOS 27 features.
Apple Watch Series 12 and Apple Watch Ultra 4 models are expected to be released in September, and we have outlined some of the key rumored hardware and software changes below. A new Apple Watch SE is not expected this year, as that model was...
With watchOS 26.5, Apple is introducing a Pride Luminance face, and it's one of the most versatile and customizable watch faces. There are pre-configured color options, but the face also supports custom colors.
You can select 1 to 12 colors from a palette that has every color of the rainbow, some in-between shades, and black, white, brown, and gray.
The colors you pick are distributed...
Apple today released watchOS 26.5, the fifth major update to the watchOS 26 operating system that came out in September. watchOS 26.5 comes a month and a half after Apple released watchOS 26.4.
watchOS 26.5 can be downloaded for free on an iPhone running iOS 26.5 by opening up the Apple Watch app and going to General > Software Update, or initiating an update in the Settings app on the...
* The new AirTag requires an iPhone running iOS 26.2.1 or later. * 🫠🫠🫠🫠🫠 so all iPhones still on iOS 18 won’t work with it? This is why they need to stop with the yearly releases.
New hardware understandably may need new software to work, because there is simply no way to anticipate the workings of a future device when writing software today.
* The new AirTag requires an iPhone running iOS 26.2.1 or later. * 🫠🫠🫠🫠🫠 so all iPhones still on iOS 18 won’t work with it? This is why they need to stop with the yearly releases.
People can of course not update. Why should your views on yearly releases impact me?
* The new AirTag requires an iPhone running iOS 26.2.1 or later. * 🫠🫠🫠🫠🫠 so all iPhones still on iOS 18 won’t work with it? This is why they need to stop with the yearly releases.
