Apple details new iOS 27 features
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I rate all the new features introduced with iOS 26 to tell you how much I use them after spending nearly a year using Apple's latest iPhone software.
The iOS 27 update will run on all iPhones that can run iOS 26, all the way back to the iPhone 11 and second-generation iPhone SE. The iPadOS 27 update is slightly less generous, dropping support for the 3rd-generation iPad Air,
Apple's WWDC 2026 was full of updates for the daily iPhone user experience - here's how you can try iOS 27 early for free.
Explore the top 10 new features in iOS 27, including liquid glass icons, an enhanced Siri, and 80 percent faster AirDrop transfers.
iOS 26 brought a major new Liquid Glass design that, in some cases, led to user reports of slower iPhone performance. But Daring Fireball’s John Gruber recently went back to iOS 18 after a long time on iOS 26, and had a surprisingly different experience.
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Shortcuts gets an AI upgrade, letting you describe the workflow you want in a prompt.
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Technically, it’s a feature of macOS 15.4, but if you also have an iPhone running iOS 18.4, you can now use your iPhone to set up a new Mac. Image courtesy Apple The requirements are pretty simple. You need a Mac using macOS Sequoia 15.4 or later that ...