tvOS 26 Release Notes

These are the full tvOS 26 release notes for Apple TV. Apple released tvOS 26 on September 15, 2025.

What's New in tvOS 26

This update introduces a stunning new design with Liquid Glass, brings cinematic poster art to the Apple TV app, adds support for iPhone as a mic for Apple Music Sing, and makes it easier to choose your profile to see personalized content recommendations. This update also includes performance and stability improvements.

Design
● Liquid Glass introduces a more expressive experience across tvOS as it refracts and reflects content in real time, and brings even more focus to what you're watching. (1)


Apple TV app
Cinematic poster art displays more movies and shows at a glance.

Apple Music
● Apple Music Sing (2) adds support for iPhone as a handheld mic, amplifying your voice through TV speakers.

● Friends and family can use their iPhone to add songs to the queue, react with onscreen emoji, and take control of the microphone. (3)

● Lyrics Translation and Pronunciation (4) help you understand the meaning behind your favorite songs and makes it easy to sing along, even if you don't know the language.


FaceTime
● Contact Posters (1) make starting a FaceTime call easier and more personal by displaying customized photos and names onscreen.

● Live Captions (1) now support Cantonese, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin, and Spanish.

Call notifications
● Incoming call notifications for phone and FaceTime audio calls help you answer them on connected HomePod speakers, or your iPhone.

Profiles
● Profiles can now be displayed when Apple TV wakes from sleep so you can quickly access your movies, shows and music.

Screen savers
Landscapes of India offer breathtaking new screen savers.
Aerial screen savers now include an option to let you choose which stunning views are displayed.

AirPlay
Any AirPlay-enabled speaker can now be set as the default output for Apple TV.

1. Available on Apple TV 4K (2nd generation and later).
2. Available on Apple TV 4K (3rd generation).
3. Available on iPhone SE (2nd generation and later) and iPhone 11 and later.
4. Lyrics Translation available for select songs in the following languages: English to Chinese (simplified), English to Japanese, Korean to Chinese (simplified), Korean to English, Korean to Japanese, and Spanish to English. Lyrics Pronunciation available for select songs in the following scripts: Cantonese to Jyutping, Chinese (simplified) to Pinyin, Chinese (traditional) to Pinyin, Hindi to Romanized Hindi, Japanese to Romanized Japanese, Korean to Katakana, Korean to Romanized Korean, and Punjabi to Romanized Punjabi.

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