New Emoji, Playlist Generator and More: All the New Features iOS 26.4 Brings to Your iPhone

Apple released iOS 26.4 on Tuesday, March 24, about a week after the tech giant released iOS 26.3.1 (a), the company’s first Background Security Improvement update. The most recent update brings a slew of features to your iPhone, including new emoji and video podcasts.

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You can download iOS 26.4 now by going to Settings and tapping General. Next, select Software Update, tap Update Now and follow the prompts on your screen.

Here are some of the new features iOS 26.4 brings to your iPhone.

New emoji

An orca, distorted face and other emoji coming out of a smartphone.

All the new emoji iOS 26.4 brings to your iPhone.

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With iOS 26.4, your iPhone gets eight new emoji. Those emoji include:

The Unicode Consortium is responsible for creating emoji, and it approved these new emoji in September as part of Unicode 17.0. But this is the first time the emoji are showing up on iPhones. 

Video podcasts come to Apple Podcasts

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