iOS 26.4 is here, and it comes with several small but notable updates. This includes a new Playlist Playground launching in beta in Apple Music, which uses AI to generate a song playlist – complete with title, description and tracklist – based on a text prompt.
Apple Music is also adding a new Concert Discovery feature, letting you find shows nearby from artists in your library, as well as new artists recommended by the app. Other updates include full-screen backgrounds for album and playlist pages, as well as a new offline music recognition tool that “identifies songs without an Internet connection and automatically provides results when you’re back online.”
Apple’s Family Sharing feature, which lets you share an Apple subscription with up to six other people, will now let each adult member add their own payment methods to make purchases (rather than just using the method belonging to the group organizer). Additionally, iOS 26.4 adds eight new emoji, including orca, trombone, landslide, ballet dancer, and distorted face. According to Apple, it also improves the accuracy of its keyboard when typing faster.
There are also some new accessibility features, including an update to Apple’s “Reduce glare” setting, which now reduces the flash that occurs when you tap certain elements, like buttons. Apple is also making subtitles and captions settings easier to find, and says its “Reduce motion” setting now “more reliably slows down Liquid Glass’s animations.”
Apple also released its macOS 26.4 update, which introduces a new compact tab bar option in Safari and the ability to set the charging limit from 80 to 100 percent to help preserve your device’s battery lifespan.
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