13 underrated iOS 26 updates that improve your iPhone<div class="feat-image">
</div><p>Apple’s headline iOS 26 features like Apple Intelligence and redesigned apps tend to get all the attention. But some of the most useful changes are easy to miss. These underrated iOS 26 updates quietly improve the iPhone experience in ways that don’t make the keynote but still matter in everyday use.</p>
<p>From smarter AirPods behavior to new journaling tools and better battery estimates, here are 13 updates you might have missed.</p>
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13 underrated iOS 26 updates that improve your iPhone
