Vision Pro gets polish

Apple began rolling out visionOS 26.4 on March 24, 2026; the update appears in Settings → General → Software Update and requires users to remove the headset during installation while a progress bar shows on the front EyeSight display. (macrumors.com) visionOS 26.4 changes Spatial Audio so it "starts faster in familiar spaces" by remembering a room’s acoustic properties and reusing that data to anchor virtual speakers more quickly. (gadgetbond.com) The 26.4 build also adds official support for Apple’s new AirPods Max 2 and delivers eight emoji (distorted face, fight cloud, landslide, ballet dancer, treasure chest, trombone, orca, hairy creature) in the system keyboard. (macrumors.com) Apple issued visionOS 26.3.1 on February 26, 2026 specifically to resolve a MultiView flicker that could appear when watching sports content in the Apple TV app. (macrumors.com) Mac mirroring has seen iterative fixes prior to 26.4: Apple introduced higher-resolution and shape/customization improvements for Mac Virtual Display around the visionOS 2.2 cycle in December 2024 to make Mac-to‑Vision Pro mirroring more usable. (me.mashable.com) (support.apple.com) Developer and community threads show pinch-input bugs have been tracked and patched in earlier betas — a Unity discussion notes a "first pinch gets stuck" issue that was fixed in a visionOS 1.1 beta — while Apple’s gesture documentation continues to list pinch-and-drag and pinch-to-select as core interaction methods. (discussions.unity.com) (support.apple.com) The 26.4 release also quietly surfaces platform-level improvements for creators and developers — including AirPods Max 2 integration and a reported enablement of next‑generation foveated streaming for apps and games — that aim to smooth audio workflows and streaming performance on Vision Pro. (gadgetbond.com)