iOS 26.1 Beta 1 Includes More Live Translation Languages, Apple Music Swipe Gesture, More

After its software release bonanza last Monday, Apple this Monday is onto the next one.

Juli Clover reports today for MacRumors Apple seeded to developers the first beta of iOS 26.1 (along with its brethren), and the update comes with a few notable features for accessibility. Namely, Live Translation for AirPods is being localized into more languages and Apple Music gets a swipe gesture to change tracks in the mini player.

“AirPods Live Translation works with additional languages in iOS 26.1, including Japanese, Korean, Italian, and Chinese (both Mandarin Traditional and Simplified),” Clover said.

As to the new gesture in Apple Music, I often switch back and forth between views to manually change tracks in the album view if there are only particular songs I want to hear. Thus, this new swipe move theoretically should make that task more accessible because I needn’t have to jump back and forth anymore if I know certain tracks are clustered together. Generally, though, for my most favorite albums—think Linkin Park’s Meteora, for instance—I will start with the first track and let it run from front to back. I’m a completionist that way. Otherwise, the new swipe gesture should prove really handy.

Other changes in iOS 26.1 Beta 1 include the dialer in the Phone app getting its Liquid Glass glow-up, design changes in the Photos app, and more. Based on precedence, Clover posits the public release of iOS 26.1, et al, could come sometime next month.