Apple continues to innovate and improve its products with iPhone updates. As the rollout of iOS 26.1 begins, a new beta phase for the next upgrade is already released as well, giving users insights into what the company is planning next.
iPhone Update: New Alerts System Added
Safety Alerts are an important aspect, especially when living in dangerous areas that are often hit by natural disasters. That’s where the new iPhone update can also help, with new options being added to help you personalize the alerts so you’re best informed whenever anything happens around you.
A new tab called “Enhanced Safety Alerts” has been found. 9to5mac revealed that when clicking on this new option, users can find a menu with some new on and off toggles. One of them is for earthquake alerts and another for imminent threat alerts. Not only that, but they also report that there is a new privacy option available which shares “your approximate location with Apple to improve the timeliness and reliability of Enhanced Safety Alerts.”
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Why These Toggles Matter
One of the reason why there are on and off toggles for such alerts could be to keep people in domestic abuse situations safe. Often, these users will have a second “secret” phone, which they hide from their abuser. Giving them the option to turn off such alarms keeps them safe and their phone a secret as well. Users can also toggle other alerts, like test alerts, AMBER alerts as well, to keep their phones completely silent even during emergency situations.
Of course, this one safety feature isn’t the only one Apple is implementing in the iPhone update for iOS 26.2. There are some more visual changes coming as well, like a liquid glass lock screen slider, and some accessibility features like flashes for alerts, just to name a few. A release date for iOS 26.2 isn’t out yet, but the beta just started, so expect it to still take a while until release.
Sources: 9to5mac