At its WWDC25 occasion earlier this month, Apple was eager to focus on the numerous helpful new options and design tweaks in iOS 26, its upcoming iPhone software program replace. However iOS 26 comprises loads of much less heralded modifications too, together with a couple of that Apple would in all probability favor to maintain secret.
Eagle-eyed beta testers, for instance, have observed a brand new iPhone ringtone hidden throughout the code. The invention was made independently by a Twitter/X person going by the deal with @8810cfw and Macworld’s Filipe Esposito, and later confirmed by the MacRumors analyst Aaron Perris.
It’s referred to throughout the code as “ReflectionAlt1-EncoreRemix.” Because the title suggests, it’s a brand new model of Reflection, which launched because the default ringtone of the iPhone X and stays in widespread use. Like Reflection, the brand new model has a cool, glassy sound (probably a xylophone or related instrument) and a frenetic rhythm. And you’ll hear it now:
When you’d like to match that to the unique Reflection, open the Settings app in your iPhone and go to Sounds & Haptics > Ringtone, then faucet on Reflection; it should play by means of as soon as as a pattern. Bear in mind to faucet on the ringtone you truly need afterwards (assuming it isn’t Reflection) to reselect it.
On condition that Apple hasn’t introduced the brand new ringtone, it’s probably being saved for a later product launch. The iPhone 17 might be right here within the fall, coinciding with the general public launch of iOS 26.0, so the logical conclusion is that ReflectionAlt1 goes to be a part of that launch.
Then again, as a result of that is an early beta for builders solely (the general public beta program doesn’t even begin till month) it’s solely potential that that is merely leftover code from an earlier experiment, or that it’s at present deliberate for launch however might be cancelled later within the beta course of. However we hope not, as a result of it’s very nice.
