Though iOS 26 has been out for nearly three months, not everyone has upgraded to the latest version of Apple's iPhone software. And Apple, for one, thinks it's about time that they did.

At the start of this month, Apple began including an alert in the Settings app for iOS 18 users prompting them to move to the newer version of iOS. As if to drive the point home, the Software Update section of Settings now flips the order in which available updates appear — iOS 26 is now at the top of the screening, moving ahead of any iOS 18 update you can download.

My wife's iPhone 15, still running iOS 18, even includes a Learn More message where Apple expounds upon all the benefits an iOS 26 upgrade will bring to her phone.

Even though I've been using iOS 26 since the first betas rolled out this summ

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