June 9, 2025
PRESS RELEASE
visionOS 26 introduces highly effective new spatial experiences for Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional
Widgets turn into spatial and anchor in a person’s house, Personas are extra expressive and real looking, and new APIs unleash thrilling alternatives for builders, creators, and enterprises
CUPERTINO, CALIFORNIA Apple as we speak previewed visionOS 26, an expansive replace full of groundbreaking spatial experiences and new options for Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional. On a regular basis interactions turn into extra immersive and private, with widgets that combine right into a person’s house, spatial scenes that use generative AI so as to add beautiful lifelike depth to photographs, putting enhancements that make Personas really feel extra pure and acquainted, and shared spatial experiences for Imaginative and prescient Professional customers in the identical room.
visionOS 26 additionally provides assist for 180-degree, 360-degree, and large field-of-view content material from Insta360, GoPro, and Canon, whereas new enterprise APIs permit organizations to create spatial experiences distinctive to visionOS. And with assist for PlayStation VR2 Sense controllers, gamers can take pleasure in a brand new class of video games on Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional.1
“Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional has outlined what’s attainable on this new period of spatial computing, and with visionOS 26, we’re excited to push the boundaries even additional,” stated Mike Rockwell, Apple’s vice chairman of the Imaginative and prescient Merchandise Group. “With brand-new methods for Imaginative and prescient Professional house owners to attach, discover, work collectively, and revel in content material, we’re extremely excited for customers to take pleasure in options like apps and widgets that they’ll prepare of their areas, spatial scenes that supply a brand-new viewing expertise for his or her photographs, and dramatically enhanced Personas on Imaginative and prescient Professional.”
Widgets Change into Spatial
Throughout the Apple ecosystem, widgets provide customized and helpful info at a look, and with visionOS 26, widgets turn into spatial, integrating seamlessly right into a person’s house and reappearing each time they placed on Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional. Widgets in visionOS 26 are customizable, with quite a lot of choices for body width, shade, and depth. Stunning new widgets — together with Clock, Climate, Music, and Photographs — all provide distinctive interactions and experiences.
Customers can enhance their areas with favourite widgets, together with beautiful panoramas and spatial photographs of their favourite recollections, clocks with distinctive face designs, and fast entry to their go-to playlists and songs on Apple Music. The Widgets app helps customers discover widgets, together with these from appropriate iOS and iPadOS apps, and builders may also be capable to create their very own widgets utilizing WidgetKit.
Enhanced Shared Spatial Experiences
Customers love how visionOS lets them join with household, mates, and colleagues remotely, and with visionOS 26, they’ll share spatial experiences with different Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional customers in the identical room. They will come collectively to observe the newest blockbuster film in 3D, play a spatial recreation, or collaborate with coworkers. Customers also can add distant members from internationally through FaceTime, enabling reference to folks close to and much.
Dassault Systèmes, a number one supplier of engineering and 3D design software program, is leveraging this capability with their 3DLive app, bringing the power to visualise 3D designs each in individual and with distant colleagues.
With visionOS 26, Personas are reworked to really feel extra pure and acquainted. Benefiting from industry-leading volumetric rendering and machine studying expertise, the all-new Personas now have putting expressivity and sharpness, providing a full facet profile view, and remarkably correct hair, lashes, and complexion. Personas are nonetheless created on gadget in a matter of seconds, and new enhancements to the setup course of permit customers to regulate and preview how their Persona seems spatially, and even decide glasses from over 1,000 variations.
Introducing Spatial Scenes
visionOS 26 makes spatial photographs much more real looking, leveraging a brand new generative AI algorithm and computational depth to create spatial scenes with a number of views, letting customers really feel like they’ll lean in and go searching.
Customers can view spatial scenes within the Photographs app, Spatial Gallery app, and Safari, whereas builders can use the Spatial Scene API to make their app expertise much more immersive. Zillow is benefiting from the API for his or her Zillow Immersive app, permitting customers to see photos of properties and residences with the wealthy depth and dimension that spatial scenes provide.
New Methods to Browse, Play, and Watch
Customers can choose spatial searching to remodel articles on Safari, conceal distractions, and reveal spatial scenes that come alive as they scroll. Net builders have the power to embed 3D fashions instantly into net pages, letting customers store and browse with depth and dimension, and see and manipulate 3D objects and fashions proper in Safari.
visionOS 26 helps native playback of 180-degree, 360-degree, and large field-of-view content material from Insta360, GoPro, and Canon. Customers can take pleasure in their thrilling 2D motion footage the best way it was meant to be seen. Builders can incorporate this new playback functionality into their apps and web sites.
visionOS 26 additionally introduces assist for the PlayStation VR2 Sense controller. Now, builders can ship much more partaking gameplay experiences for Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional due to high-performance movement monitoring in 6 levels of freedom, finger contact detection, and vibration assist.
Enterprise APIs and Instruments
Corporations around the globe are harnessing spatial computing on Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional to supercharge their workflows for design, coaching, gross sales, training, and extra. New capabilities like group gadget sharing let organizations simply arrange and handle a shared pool of gadgets. Customers can securely save their eye and hand information, imaginative and prescient prescription, and accessibility settings to their iPhone working iOS 26 and convey it to a different Imaginative and prescient Professional, making sharing simpler than ever.
visionOS 26 provides assist for Logitech Muse, a spatial accent constructed for Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional that permits exact enter and new methods to work together with collaboration apps like Spatial Analogue.1
Enterprise-focused APIs, like the brand new Protected Content material API, be certain that solely individuals who have been granted entry can see confidential supplies like medical information or enterprise forecasts, whereas stopping copying, screenshots, and display screen sharing.
Further visionOS 26 options embrace:
- Extra Apple Intelligence options — together with updates to Picture Playground — come to Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional. visionOS 26 additionally provides assist for brand new languages: French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, and Spanish, together with assist for English in Australia, Canada, India, Singapore, and the UK.2
- Look to Scroll permits customers to discover apps and web sites utilizing simply their eyes. Customers can customise the scroll pace, and builders can combine Look to Scroll into their visionOS apps.
- Within the redesigned Management Middle, options like Visitor Person, Focus, Journey Mode, and extra are conveniently displayed in a single view, letting customers effortlessly handle their music, alter their Surroundings settings, and connect with Mac Digital Show.
- Customers can unlock their iPhone whereas carrying Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional, even in a completely immersive expertise like an Surroundings. This characteristic might be enabled in Settings for Face ID-enabled iPhone fashions working iOS 26.3
- visionOS 26 helps relaying calls from iPhone, so a person can now reply cellphone calls instantly from Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional, or begin a name from Folks View by deciding on a contact’s cellphone quantity or clicking on a cellphone quantity in an online web page.4
- House View now helps folders, letting customers rearrange and group apps collectively.
Availability
All of those options can be found for testing beginning as we speak by way of the Apple Developer Program at developer.apple.com. For extra info, go to apple.com/os/visionos. Apple Intelligence requires Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional working visionOS 26 with Apple Intelligence enabled and Siri and gadget language set to the identical supported language: English (Australia, Canada, India, Singapore, UK, U.S.), French (Canada, France), German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, and Spanish (Mexico, Spain). Options are topic to alter. Some options is probably not accessible in all languages or areas, and availability could range as a consequence of native legal guidelines and laws. Suitable {hardware} and software program could also be required.
About Apple
Apple revolutionized private expertise with the introduction of the Macintosh in 1984. Right this moment, Apple leads the world in innovation with iPhone, iPad, Mac, AirPods, Apple Watch, and Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional. Apple’s six software program platforms — iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, visionOS, and tvOS — present seamless experiences throughout all Apple gadgets and empower folks with breakthrough companies together with the App Retailer, Apple Music, Apple Pay, iCloud, and Apple TV+. Apple’s greater than 150,000 staff are devoted to creating the very best merchandise on earth and to leaving the world higher than we discovered it.
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- Picture Playground is obtainable in English (Australia, Canada, India, Singapore, UK, U.S.), French (Canada, France), German, Italian, Japanese, and Spanish (Mexico, Spain) when Apple Intelligence is enabled. Function availability varies by area.
- Unlocking iPhone whereas carrying Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional requires each Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional and a Face ID-compatible iPhone signed in to the identical Apple Account and working visionOS 26 and iOS 26 or later.
- Relaying mobile calls from iPhone to Apple Imaginative and prescient Professional requires visionOS 26 or later, and iOS 14 or later. Gadgets have to be signed in to the identical Apple Account, linked to the identical Wi-Fi community, and inside Bluetooth vary with Bluetooth enabled.
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