Published May 6, 2026, 6:30 AM EDT Quentyn is a career tech journalist with nearly two decades of experience. He has written thousands of stories for publications such as The Verge , Forbes , Consumer Reports, and Business Insider . Quentyn specializes in reporting about mobile technology (including smartphones, tablets,  wearables, and accessories), home theater, gaming, computing, and cameras. In his free time, you can find him abusing any variety of gaming controllers or learning about his latest muses (most recently, drones and cooking). Apple is expected to roll out iOS 26.5 as soon as next week, according to MacRumors , and some interesting new features have made it into the newest release candidate. The list is relatively short, but includes a big change that enables end-to-end encrypted (E2EE) RCS messaging, which Apple has been testing in beta since February .…