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iOS & iPadOS 26.1 Release Notes

Update your apps to use new features, and test your apps against API changes.

Overview

The iOS & iPadOS 26.1 SDK provides support to develop apps for iPhone and iPad running iOS & iPadOS 26.1. The SDK comes bundled with Xcode 26.1, available from the Mac App Store. For information on the compatibility requirements for Xcode 26.1, see Xcode 26.1 Release Notes.

AirDrop

Resolved Issues

  • Fixed: The AirDrop icon in the iOS share sheet has some visual defects at the corners. (158979986)

Background Assets

Resolved Issues

  • Fixed: AssetPackManager.url(for:) unexpectedly throws an error when looking up the URL for a locally available asset file. (157959878) (FB19512759)

Game Controller

Resolved Issues

  • Fixed: The time returned by GCPressedStateInput.lastPressedStateTimestamp is not in the correct time domain. (159124910)

HealthKit

New Features

  • HealthKit authorization UI now displays a single Blood Pressure switch to control changes to Systolic and Diastolic Blood Pressure type authorizations. The API is unchanged and apps should request for both types in code. (153579893)

Resolved Issues

  • Fixed: HKCorrelation objects of type .bloodPressure fail to save with errorInvalidArgument HKError code if they don’t have exactly one systolic and one diastolic blood pressure quantity sample its set of objects. (151889745)

Instruments

Resolved Issues

  • Fixed: Processor Trace Instrument doesn’t allow for recording on iPhone 17 family of devices. (161440613)

Keyboard

Resolved Issues

  • Fixed: You are unable to select diacritical marks and character variants with keyboard. The base character is inserted instead of the intended variant. (159398021)

Lock Screen

Resolved Issues

  • Fixed: Devices might sleep unexpectedly while using certain apps on the Lock Screen (Calculator, Timer, Notes). (162150524)

NearbyInteraction

New Features

  • NINearbyAccessoryConfiguration now supports additional UWB parameters such as hopping mode. (157879907)

Known Issues

  • Running an NISession with an NIDLTDOAConfiguration results in an error. (151352056)

Siri

Resolved Issues

  • Fixed: Questions related to News in Portuguese might fall back to Web search or ChatGPT. (153935878)

Known Issues

  • Siri Voice preview might default to legacy pt-BR voices, rather than new pt-PT options. (155929981)

    Workaround: Select Voice 2 as your new Siri voice. Ask Siri a question, and you will hear the new pt-PT offering.

  • The initial pt-PT Siri Voices have pronunciation and word stress issues. Your feedback is appreciated. (160205691)

SwiftUI

New Features

  • @Animatable macro is now available starting with iOS 13, macOS 10.15, tvOS 13, and watchOS 6. (158895616)

Resolved Issues

  • Fixed: Buttons that do not specify an explicit label display text instead of a symbol in toolbars. (157671221)

  • Fixed: The navigationLinkIndicatorVisibility modifier crashes when run on iOS 17, iOS 18 and aligned releases.

    You must recompile your app against the 26.1 SDK to receive this fix. (158236264) (FB19613386)

Known Issues

  • On iOS and iPadOS, @FocusState doesn’t work in safeAreaBar. (158720838)

UIKit

Resolved Issues

  • UIDocument was incorrectly annotated to be main actor only. This has been corrected. As a result you might see new warnings or errors show up in your Swift code using UIDocument. (149990945)

WebKit

Known Issues

  • WebKit outputs a crash stacktrace to stderr when decidePolicyFor navigationAction returns .cancel. (156957269)

    Workaround: This trace does not represent a bug in the application, and can be safely ignored.

See Also

iOS & iPadOS 26