Though StatCounter is a useful gauge of iOS 26's popularity (or lack thereof), adoption rates can be difficult to measure.

In celebration of World Emoji Day on July 17, the Unicode Consortium previewed some of the new emoji that will be coming with Unicode 17.0. Notably, Distorted Face is a popular emoji in Discord ...

Apple released iOS 26.2 on Friday, Dec. 12 and, alongside it, iOS 18.7.3. However, reports emerged that while it was installing nicely on iPhones that couldn’t run iOS 26, nobody else was getting it.

Apple rolled out the first commercial release of iOS 26 last week, bringing the new Liquid Glass user interface to millions of iPhone users. Liquid Glass was the most controversial aspect of iOS 26 ...