- Apple has announced TVOS 26 to Apple TV 4K and Apple TV HD (2015)
- New features include a ‘floating glass’ interface design
- Other new features enhance Apple TV 4KS profiles, FACETIME -InTHEFACE and Sing Karaoke -Function
Today, Apple News about the new Tvos26 on WWDC 2025 dropped. We covered this announcement in our WWDC 2025 live blog, but a more complete collapse of the new features that come in tvos26 that Apple TV 4K users will soon expect can be found below.
The jump from the current TVOS 18 to TVOS 26 complies with Apple’s new Name Convention, which seeks to adjust all operating systems under the same version umbrella: iOS 26, iPados 26, MacOS 26, etc.
Along with getting the same version number, all Mac devices, including Apple TV 4K, will now share a total “liquid glass” interface. This takes its visual signals from the “floating” interface used by Visionos on the Apple Vision Pro headset, where icons appear suspended in 3D space over movement backgrounds.
The good news for Apple TV fans is that TVOS 26 will be available as an update to the full range of Apple TV 4K players dating back to 2017, along with Apple TV HD (2015). Here is the complete list of supported players:
- Apple TV HD (2015)
- Apple TV 4K (1. Generation, 2017)
- Apple TV 4K (2nd Generation, 2021)
- Apple TV 4K (3rd Generation, 2022)
1. Liquid Glass Interface
Apple’s new Liquid Glass Design is displayed in Tvos 26 as transparent playback controls that let you see the action on the screen rather than hiding it. The same level of transparency will expand to the control center, which will have a transparent quality when making adjustments of sound, sleep hours or other options.
2. Poster art
The Apple TV app also gets the liquid glass processing with a new poster art design with an expanded number of show recommendations that pop out on the screen as you navigate through them.
3. Show profiles
In Tvos 26, viewers can choose to watch display profiles when their Apple TV wakes up, allowing them to easily access a custom list of personalized viewing recommendations along with their custom security lists in both the Apple TV app and in Apple Music. Apple also adds a new API to developers to link login to apps to your Apple account, making it easy to log in using an iPhone.
4. IPhone becomes a microphone
The Sing feature in Apple Music showing scrolling songs as they listen will get a big improvement with Tvo’s 26’s ability to transform your iPhone – and also your guests’ iPhones – into a microphone. Your voice will be reinforced through the TV speakers as you sing along, and you can also respond to songs with emojis on the screen and add visual effects.
5. More personal Facetime
New in Tvos 26 is a personal Facetime experience that shows a contact’s custom photo and name when you start a FaceTime call on Apple TV. Live -image text options have been expanded to include French, German, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin and Spanish, and Apple TV will be able to show Live -Billed Texts for FaceTime conversations.
Other features
Other features that Apple announced today, when they come to Apple TV, include a new set of air screen savings with scenes from India, including Goa and Kerala, along with a personal screen -saving setting that allows you to choose between specific cityscape, land, landscape or underwater air.
Apple TV users will also be able to select a particular AirPlay-enabled speaker as the permanent speaker for their Apple TV box.
