Apple released iOS 27.2 beta 1 today, kicking off the next round of iPhone software testing. With a handful of standalone stories already covering the biggest changes, here is the complete list of what has been confirmed so far, along with the detail that matters for each one.
iOS 27.2 beta 1 is available now to registered developers by opening Settings, choosing General, then Software Update, and selecting iOS 27 Developer Beta under Beta Updates.
What’s New in iOS 27.2?
- Redesigned Apple Health app: Organized into three tabs, Insights, Longevity, and Browse, with Health Age now measured through camera-based flexibility, strength, balance, and VO2 max assessments. The app also has a new icon, but the full redesign is limited to U.S. English for now. Requires an AI-compatible iPhone, and some features also need a paired Apple Watch.
- Siri AI adds 5 new languages: Adds French, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, and Spanish alongside English. Standard Siri AI needs an iPhone 15 Pro or newer, while the full feature set is limited to the iPhone 17 Pro, iPhone 17 Pro Max, and iPhone Air.
- Apple TV App Profiles: Adds account-free guest and kid profiles, now extended to iPad as well as iPhone. Creating a child’s profile limits content to a PG rating by default, with a customize option for specific age ratings, and there is a new toggle to turn on sign language interpretation when it’s available for a title.
- FaceTime: Adds dual capture mode, plus a new ASL API that lets sign language interpretation apps add a human interpreter to an ongoing call. Works on any iPhone running iOS 27.2.
- Call Context: Apple Intelligence’s Call Context feature now shows an anniversary reminder in the Phone app if you have a saved anniversary date for the contact you’re calling.
- CarPlay Ultra: New themes let you customize wallpaper, gauge style, and color, with code suggesting ambient lighting in supported vehicles will match the selected theme.
- Siri settings: “App Access” is renamed “Excluded Apps,” and you can now select multiple apps to exclude at once instead of one at a time.
- Clock app: The a.m. and p.m. labels on alarms are now smaller than the time itself.
- Apple Podcasts: Up Next is renamed New Episodes, with Continue Playing moved directly below it.
- Apple Music: Uses less of the app icon’s color for labels throughout the interface, swapping red accents like the Play and Shuffle buttons for black.
- App Tracking Transparency: An expanded consent prompt and annual re-prompting are now required for users in France, Germany, Italy, Poland, and Romania.
The Health app redesign and Apple TV profiles are the additions most likely to affect daily use, since both touch how families interact with their iPhone rather than sitting behind a developer setting. The Health app split is steep though. Anyone on an iPhone older than the 15 Pro will not see Apple Intelligence power any of the new Insights or Longevity features, even after installing the update, and the whole redesign is currently U.S. English only.
Apple TV profiles are a strange addition. The content restrictions only apply inside the Apple TV app itself, so parents handing a kid profile to a child still need iOS’s separate parental controls for everything outside that one app. Extending profiles to iPad on day one, rather than iPhone first, suggests the feature was already finished before this beta shipped.
Dual capture mode in FaceTime opens a new way to record video calls, though Apple has not detailed the exact resolution or storage format yet. The Apple Podcasts rename from Up Next to New Episodes and the Apple Music icon color change are cosmetic, but both touch apps with enormous daily usage, so the relabeling will be immediately visible to anyone who opens either app after updating. App Tracking Transparency’s expanded prompt is already a requirement for users in five EU countries.
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