When you install a major update like iOS 26, you find yourself discovering things the more you use it. For me, however, one of my favorite discoveries was a small but excellent change to group chats—which doubles as a way to discover which of your contacts have also updated to iOS 26. Typing indicators join the group chatOnce people update their iPhones to iOS 26, group chats start supporting typing indicators, or, in other words, those tiny typing bubbles you see in one-on-one chats in Messages. Just remember: If you're running iOS 26, anyone else running iOS 26 can see that you're typing in the group chat. This is far from the only change Apple made to messaging in iOS 26.