On the WWDC 2025, Apple gave a first look at Visionos 26. However, it is still not known whether the Apple Vision Pro will also become available in the Netherlands in the future.
Visionos 26 brings pioneering spatial experiences and introduces countless new opportunities for Apple Vision Pro. This way you can now add widgets to your environment, making daily actions with the device even more personal. Thanks to generative AI you can convert photos into spatial scenes with realistic depth. Personas are further refined and eyes more lifelike, and from now on you can share your spatial experiences with other Vision Pro users in the same room.
Spatial widgets
Widgets give you direct access to handy and relevant information on Apple devices. With Visionos 26, widgets are now spatial: they are effortlessly integrated into your environment and appear automatically as soon as you set up your Apple Vision Pro. In this new version you can set the width, color and depth of your widgets yourself. In addition, beautiful, new widgets have been added, such as clock, weather, music and photos, each of which offer their own unique functions.
You can put together your environment with your favorite widgets, such as beautiful panoramas and spatial photos of dear moments, clocks with striking dials, or quick access to your favorite playlists and songs in Apple Music. In the Widgets app you can easily find the desired widgets, for example from compatible iOS and iPados apps.
Spatial scenes
In Visionos 26, spatial photos are even more lifelike than before. Thanks to a new generative AI algorithm and advanced computational depth, spatial scenes are built from multiple perspectives, making it look like you can really look around. You can view these spatial scenes in the photos app, Spatial Gallery and Safari. Developers can use the Spatial Scene-api to make their apps even more realistic.
Use the use, gaming and watching with an extra dimension
If you opt for spatial internet, then web content in Safari will get a completely new dimension. While scrolling, spatial scenes appear, where disturbing elements remain out of the picture. Web developers can add 3D models to their pages, so that you experience depth effects while shopping and surf and can view and edit 3D objects directly in Safari.
Visionos 26 offers support for 180-degree, 360-degree and widescreen content from, among others, Insta360, GoPro and Canon. This allows you to experience impressive 2D action images as they are intended. Developers can integrate these new display opportunities into their apps and websites.
In addition, Visionos 26 now also supports the PlayStation VR2 Sense controller. Thanks to the advanced movement registration with six degrees of freedom, touch detection and haptic feedback, gameplay on Apple Vision Pro is becoming even more drilling.
Persona’s more realistic
In Visionos 26, personas look much more natural and familiar. The brand new personas, made with advanced technology for volumetric rendering and machine learning, are expressive and detailed. They have a complete side view and the hair, the eyelashes and skin tones are extremely realistic.
Personas are still made on the device itself within a few seconds. The setting options are considerably expanded. This way you can now view and adjust the spatial representation of your persona in advance, and you have a choice of more than 1000 different glasses, to name just an example.
Special APIs and tools for companies
Worldwide, companies use Spatial Computing with Apple Vision Pro to develop innovative workflows for design, training, sales and education, among other things. Thanks to new functions, such as shared use of a device within a team, organizations can now easily set and manage multiple shared devices. Personal data such as eye and hand information, glasses recipes and accessibility settings are stored safely on an iPhone with iOS 26 and can easily be transferred from there to another Vision Pro, making sharing a device easier than ever.
Visionos 26 supports the Logitech Musea spatial accessory specially designed for Apple Vision Pro that offers very accurate input and opens new possibilities for cooperation apps such as Spatial Analogue.
With new APIs, including the protected content-api, organizations can protect sensitive information such as medical records or business data. Only competent users get access, while functions such as copying, screenshots and screen sharing can be switched off.
Other new features in Visionos 26
- All apps on the home screen (Home View) can easily be done from now on Organize in folders.
- Of Look to scroll You can serve apps and websites with only your eyes, where you set the scroll speed yourself. Developers have the opportunity to integrate look to scroll into their Visionos apps.
- Apple is spreading the Apple Intelligence functions Further out on the Apple Vision Pro, including improvements to Image Playground. With Visionos 26, extra languages ​​are also added: German, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean and Spanish. Engels is now also being supported for Australia, Canada, India, Singapore and the United Kingdom.
- You unlock iPhone while you wear Apple Vision Prois now possible, even in a fully spatial environment such as an environment. This function can be activated via the settings on an iPhone with Face ID and iOS 26.
- It Renewed control panel Bundles handy functions such as guest user, focus and travel mode in one screen. This allows you to easily play music, adjust environmental settings and connect to a virtual Mac screen.
- With Visionos 26 you can Send calls from your iPhone directly To Apple Vision Pro, so that you can immediately accept telephone calls on the device. From People View you can also call someone yourself, by choosing a contact from your list or clicking on a telephone number on a web page.