iOS & iPadOS 26.6 Release Notes
Update your apps to use new features, and test your apps against API changes.
Overview
The iOS & iPadOS 26.6 SDK provides support to develop apps for iPhone and iPad running iOS & iPadOS 26.6. The SDK comes bundled with Xcode 26.6, available from the Mac App Store. For information on the compatibility requirements for Xcode 26.6, see Xcode 26.6 Release Notes.
HealthKit
Resolved Issues
Fixed: Authorization screen not displaying when requesting
HKQuantityTypeIdentifierBloodPressureDiastolicorHKQuantityTypeIdentifierBloodPressureSystolic. (177652061)Fixed: Temporally-weighted average statistics queries for discrete quantity types such as Resting Heart Rate may return erroneously high values when samples overlap in time. (178157672)
Messages
Resolved Issues
Fixed: HDR screenshots might appear garbled when sent in Messages. (180859837)
Object Capture
Resolved Issues
Fixed: Capture and reconstruction might fail. (175324303)
Stickers
Resolved Issues
Fixed: You might be unable to create new stickers or see existing stickers when sticker data becomes corrupted. This prevents you from using stickers, and the issue can persist to other devices when synced via iCloud. (163377768)
StoreKit
Resolved Issues
Fixed:
SKTestSessionsdoes not properly connect to the test environment when using Simulator, causing test actions to fail. (174738526) (FB22500243)