Apple Unveils visionOS 26 with Enhanced Spatial Widgets and Realistic Personas

Apple’s visionOS 26, the latest update to the operating system powering its mixed reality headset, builds on the groundbreaking Apple Vision Pro spatial computer. This update was unveiled at WWDC 2025 and introduces a suite of features designed to deepen the integration of digital content with the physical world, enhancing both consumer and enterprise experiences.

Personalized Spatial Widgets

visionOS 26 transforms widgets into spatial elements that users can customize in size, color, and depth, placing them anywhere within their environment. New widgets include a decorative clock, adaptive weather updates, quick-access music controls, and photos that can morph into panoramic views or act as “windows” to other spaces. This personalization makes digital information seamlessly blend into physical surroundings.

Bringing Photos and Browsing to Life

The Photos app now uses an AI algorithm to add computational depth to 2D images, enabling users to experience photos from multiple perspectives, creating an immersive “look around” effect. Safari’s spatial browsing enhances web experiences by hiding distractions and animating inline photos as users scroll. Developers can integrate spatial browsing into their own apps, expanding immersive content possibilities.

Realistic AI Personas for Video Calls

Building on last year’s beta, visionOS 26 enhances Personas—AI avatars representing users in video calls—with volumetric rendering and machine learning. These improvements deliver more accurate side profiles, realistic hair, eyelashes, and skin tones. Created on-device within seconds, these avatars provide a natural and familiar presence during virtual interactions.

Collaborative Immersive Experiences

visionOS 26 enables shared immersive experiences where two users wearing headsets can watch movies or play spatial games together. For enterprises, this means enhanced collaboration opportunities. For example, Dassault Systèmes uses this capability in its 3DLive app to visualize 3D designs collaboratively, both in-person and remotely, bridging physical and virtual teamwork.

Enterprise APIs and Secure Shared Devices

visionOS 26 introduces features tailored for enterprise use, including shared device pools that allow multiple team members to use the same headset securely. Eye and hand data, vision prescriptions, and accessibility settings can be saved to a user’s iPhone, enabling quick personalized access on any shared device. A new “for your eyes only” mode protects confidential content by restricting access to authorized users only.

Apple also announced Logitech Muse, a spatial accessory designed for Vision Pro that enables precise 3D drawing and collaboration, expanding interaction possibilities within spatial apps like Spatial Analogue.

Additional Enhancements

visionOS 26 expands language support with new languages such as French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, and Spanish, plus regional English variants. Users can now scroll through apps and websites using only their eyes and unlock their iPhones without removing the headset. Calls can be relayed from iPhone to Vision Pro, enhancing seamless communication.

These updates collectively push the boundaries of spatial computing, making mixed reality more immersive, personalized, and practical for everyday use and professional collaboration.