Apple's iOS 26.3 comes with a limit precise location setting to boost your iPhone privacy. Here's what you need to know.

Apple surprises users with unexpected update, quietly reviving older iPhones and iPads.

When Apple stops supporting older iPhones and iPads with the latest version of iOS or iPadOS, it usually isn’t the end of the line—Apple keeps releasing new security-only patches for those devices for another year or two, keeping them usable while their hardware is still reasonably capable.

This update is compatible with all iPhones from 2019 on — that means the iPhone 11 onwards. The iPhone XS, XS Max and XR supported iOS 18 but aren’t compatible with the new software. Every phone from iPhone 11 to the latest, including second- and third-generation iPhone SE, right up to iPhone 17 series and iPhone Air, are covered.

A new feature called Limited Precise Location is unlikely to work on your device or with your carrier at launch.

Alongside iOS 26.2.1, Apple today released an updated version of iOS 12 for devices that are still running that operating system update, eight years after the software was first released. iOS 12.5.8 is available for the iPhone 5s and the iPhone 6,

Apple's upcoming iOS 26.3 update will introduce a setting that limits how precisely carriers can determin your location.