Take Control of iOS 26 and iPadOS 26

by Glenn Fleishman

Enhance your iPhone or iPad with Apple’s latest operating system
Version 1.2, updated November 10, 2025

Discover all the changes in iOS 26 and iPadOS 26, which breathe new life into your iPhone and iPad with major new features and interface changes. In this book, renowned technology author Glenn Fleishman shows you what's new and how to upgrade.

Apple has switched to year-based numbering for all their operating systems, so iOS and iPadOS have jumped from version 18 to version 26. These new versions sport a futuristic Liquid Glass interface and a wide range of new features, including a brand-new multitasking system for iPads. This book covers all the changes, enabling you to get more out of your iPhone or iPad. (It doesn't cover everything iOS 26 and iPadOS 26 can do, however.)

This book helps you

The new features (both large and small) in iOS 26 and iPadOS 26How to determine whether the version 26 operating system will run on your device, and the steps to follow to install the upgradeWhat Liquid Glass is all about, how to use it, and how to turn off some of its features if you don't like them.How to work with the new iPad multitasking system, including sizing, modifying, and arranging windows (and how to switch back to Stage Manager if you prefer)Other iPad-specific changes, including new features for the DockHelpful new features in the Phone app, including Hold Assist, Call Filtering, and Call ScreeningNew spam-reduction features in FaceTime and MessagesLive Translation, which provides real-time translation in FaceTime, Messages, and PhoneSmaller changes to apps including CarPlay, Files, Passwords, and WalletWhat you can do with the new Preview app, previously available only for Mac

122 pages, Kindle Edition

Published August 29, 2025

About the author

I started writing as a child and never stopped. I’ve always been interested in what makes things tick and how to explain that. That led to a career as a technology journalist and how-to article and book author. I’ve written dozens of books over my career in some combination of the two.

In the 2010s, I started publish a series of book that combined printing and type history and technology in a variety of ways. These titles include Not To Put Too Fine a Point on It, a collection of essays and reporting; London Kerning, a look at two magnificent London printing collections and the city’s typographical history; Six Centuries of Type & Printing; and How Comics Were Made, a heavily visual history of the production and reproduction of newspaper comics from the 1890s to the present.

I live in Seattle, Washington, with my family, and drink very little coffee.