iOS 27 is out now, and it brings more than a new look to iPhone. Apple’s latest software update introduces a major Siri AI overhaul, expands Apple Intelligence across more apps, adds new Liquid Glass customization, improves performance, and brings dozens of smaller changes to Photos, Safari, Wallet, Health, CarPlay, and more.
The biggest change is Siri AI, Apple’s new generation of Siri powered by Apple Intelligence. It can understand personal context, answer questions about what’s on your screen, search across apps, perform actions, and hold more natural conversations. Apple has also added a dedicated Siri AI app, alongside expanded Apple Intelligence features throughout iOS.
But Siri is only part of the story. iOS 27 also refines the Liquid Glass interface introduced with iOS 26, adds new customization options, improves system performance, and introduces new features across Apple’s built-in apps.
We’ve rounded up every confirmed iOS 27 feature and change below, from major additions to smaller refinements that shipped in the final release.
iOS 27 Is Now Available for All Supported iPhones
Apple released iOS 27 publicly on September 14, 2026, alongside iPadOS 27, watchOS 27, tvOS 27, macOS 27 Golden Gate, and visionOS 27. The final build matches what appeared in the release candidate, with no major features added or removed in the last stretch before launch.
To install it, open Settings, then General, then Software Update on your iPhone.
The latest changes include:
- Redesigned icons for several Apple apps
- More Siri voice customization
- Additional Liquid Glass refinements
- More control over Search results
- New Wallet pass capabilities
- Additional AirPods controls
- Mail Smart Reply customization
- Photos rating refinements
- Additional accessibility features
This section will be updated whenever a new beta introduces notable features or changes.
iOS 27 Features At A Glance
Here are the biggest iOS 27 features covered in this guide:
- Siri AI
- Dedicated Siri AI app
- Siri conversation history
- Personal context
- Onscreen awareness
- Cross-app actions
- Siri voice customization
- Write with Siri
- Apple Intelligence improvements
- Visual Intelligence updates
- Image Playground improvements
- Liquid Glass customization
- Redesigned app icons
- Messages improvements
- Photos updates
- Safari changes
- Apple Music AutoMix
- Wallet improvements
- Health updates
- CarPlay changes
- AirPods improvements
- Accessibility features
- Privacy and security improvements
- Faster app launches
- Faster Photos loading
- Faster AirDrop transfers
- Dozens of smaller system changes
iOS 27 Design And Interface Changes
iOS 27 builds on the Liquid Glass design introduced with iOS 26, but Apple is refining the visual effects, improving readability, and adding more customization options across the system.
1. Liquid Glass Customization
A new Liquid Glass setting lets users adjust the transparency of the interface, ranging from a clearer appearance that shows more of the background to a more opaque, tinted look that’s easier to read.
2. Redesigned System App Icons
Several built-in apps have received updated icons during the iOS 27 beta cycle, including Safari, Preview, Remote, and Siri.
3. Control Center Refinements
Apple is making additional changes to Control Center, including new interface adjustments and easier access to system information.
4. Cellular Signal Information in Control Center
iOS 27 adds cellular signal information to Control Center, making it easier to check network strength without opening another screen.
Siri AI and Apple Intelligence
Siri AI is the headline feature of iOS 27, turning Apple’s voice assistant into a more conversational and context-aware system. It can understand personal information, interpret what’s on screen, answer broader questions, and perform tasks across supported apps.
5. Dedicated Siri AI App
iOS 27 introduces a dedicated Siri app where users can have longer conversations, start new requests, and revisit previous interactions.
6. Siri Conversation History
Siri AI keeps conversations in the dedicated app, allowing users to return to previous discussions and continue where they left off. Conversation history can also sync across supported Apple devices.
7. Natural Follow-Up Conversations
Siri AI can maintain context between questions, so users can ask follow-ups without repeating the details of the original request.
8. Personal Context
Siri AI can use information from supported apps such as Messages, Mail, Photos, Notes, and Calendar to provide answers based on the user’s personal information.
9. Search Across Personal Information
Users can ask Siri to find information across their apps, such as a specific message, email, photo, note, or file, instead of searching each app individually.
10. Onscreen Awareness
Siri AI can understand what’s displayed on the iPhone, allowing users to ask questions about webpages, messages, photos, and other onscreen content.
11. Broader Knowledge And Web Answers
Siri AI can handle open-ended questions and use web-based information when a request requires knowledge beyond what’s available on the device.
12. Cross-App Actions
Siri AI can perform tasks across supported apps, allowing users to create reminders, add Calendar events, create notes, edit messages, and complete other actions without manually switching between apps.
13. Siri AI In Camera
Siri AI works with Visual Intelligence in the Camera app, allowing users to point their iPhone at something and ask questions about what they see.
14. Customizable Siri Voices
Supported newer iPhones can offer more control over Siri’s voice, including adjustments to expressiveness and speaking pace.
15. Write With Siri
Write with Siri lets users generate text, rewrite existing content, or get help with writing directly where they are typing.
16. Personalized Writing Style
In supported apps such as Mail and Messages, Siri AI can use a user’s writing style, tone, and punctuation to make generated text feel more natural.
17. Improved Writing Tools
Writing Tools gain additional capabilities for rewriting, proofreading, summarizing, and generating text across supported apps.
18. Apple Intelligence In Messages
Apple Intelligence can understand information in conversations and suggest useful actions based on what people are discussing.
19. Smarter Notification Summaries
Apple Intelligence can summarize groups of notifications and surface important information, helping users catch up more quickly.
20. Expanded Visual Intelligence
Visual Intelligence can understand information from the iPhone camera and content displayed on the screen, making it easier to identify, explain, and interact with what you’re looking at.
21. New Visual Intelligence Actions
Visual Intelligence can search for information, answer questions, and perform actions based on visual content, including information found in photos, documents, and other onscreen material.
22. Image Playground Improvements
Image Playground gains new image-generation capabilities, including more ways to create and customize AI-generated images.
23. AI-Powered Photo Editing
Apple Intelligence adds new AI-powered editing tools to Photos, making it easier to change, clean up, and extend images using natural-language controls.
24. Spatial Reframe
Spatial Reframe uses AI to adjust the framing and composition of photos after they have been captured, giving users more flexibility when editing an image.
25. Improved Clean Up
Clean Up is more capable in iOS 27, making it easier to remove unwanted objects and distractions from photos.
iOS 27 Messages Features
Messages receives a collection of new customization, reaction, and Apple Intelligence features.
26. New Message Effects
iOS 27 adds new effects that let users give messages more visual personality.
27. Custom Emoji Reactions
Messages expands Tapback reactions with more flexible emoji-based reactions, giving users more ways to respond to messages.
28. Smarter Message Suggestions
Apple Intelligence can recognize useful information in conversations and suggest relevant actions, such as creating reminders or Calendar events.
29. Turn Messages Into Reminders
When a conversation includes something that needs to be remembered, iOS 27 can help turn it into a reminder without requiring users to switch apps.
30. Create Calendar Events From Messages
Information shared in a conversation can be used to create Calendar events, making it easier to turn plans and appointments into scheduled events.
31. Improved Shared Content
iOS 27 improves how photos, links, and other shared content are displayed and handled within conversations.
32. Apple Intelligence Writing In Messages
Users can use Apple Intelligence to generate, rewrite, proofread, and adjust the tone of messages directly in the Messages app.
iOS 27 Photos Features
33. Improved Photo Browsing
Apple continues refining the Photos app after its major iOS 26 redesign, with improvements to navigation and browsing.
34. More Photo Organization Options
iOS 27 adds new ways to organize and find photos, making larger libraries easier to manage.
35. Shared Albums For Android Users
Android users can now contribute photos and videos directly to iCloud Shared Albums, making it easier to collaborate across platforms.
36. Star Rating Controls
The Photos app gains additional rating controls, including an option to show rating controls while browsing photos.
37. Smarter Photo Search
Apple Intelligence improves natural-language photo search, making it easier to find images by describing what you’re looking for.
iOS 27 Safari Features
38. Notify Me
Safari can monitor webpages and notify you when something changes, such as a product restock, price change, or ticket availability. You can set checks to run daily, weekly, or monthly.
39. Automatic Tab Organization
Apple Intelligence can automatically group open Safari tabs by topic, making it easier to separate research, shopping, travel, and other browsing sessions.
40. Describe An Extension
Safari can create custom extensions using Apple Intelligence. Simply describe what you want the extension to do, and Safari generates it for you.
41. Password Auto-Update
Safari can automatically update weak or compromised passwords on supported websites and save the new credentials to the Passwords app.
42. Siri Image Integration
You can long-press an image in Safari and ask Siri for more information about it without leaving the browser.
43. Resume Browsing
The redesigned Safari Start Page includes a Resume Browsing section that surfaces recently closed tabs and pages open on your other Apple devices.
44. Ask To Browse
Ask to Browse lets parents require children to request permission before visiting new websites in Safari, with approval requests appearing on the parent’s device.
45. Safari Performance Improvements
Safari is more power efficient in iOS 27, with improvements to JavaScript performance, web app loading, animations, and compatibility with modern websites.
iOS 27 Apple Music Features
Apple Music gets several useful additions in iOS 27, including better AutoMix transitions, a redesigned artist experience, and new ways to discover music.
46. Better AutoMix
AutoMix gets improved transitions in iOS 27, making the switch between songs feel smoother and more natural. The feature uses techniques such as beat matching and time stretching to create more continuous mixes.
47. Landscape Mode
Apple Music now supports landscape layouts on iPhone, letting you view album artwork and playback controls side by side. Lyrics can also appear alongside the artwork.
48. Redesigned Artist Pages
Artist pages get a refreshed design with full-screen color backgrounds, more prominent featured music, and easier access to key controls.
49. Friends Playlist
A new Friends playlist shows music your friends are listening to. It updates weekly and identifies which friends are listening to each track.
50. Extra-Large Music Widgets
Apple Music adds three new extra-large widgets for the Home Screen and Today View: Recently Played, Recommendations, and Top Charts.
iOS 27 Wallet Features
Apple Wallet gets several useful upgrades in iOS 27, expanding the app beyond payments and tickets with new tools for passes, spending, bill splitting, travel, and order tracking.
51. Create A Pass
Wallet can now turn physical cards with barcodes or QR codes into digital passes. Tap the + button and choose Create a Pass to digitize loyalty cards, membership cards, tickets, and other passes that do not officially support Apple Wallet.
52. Wallet Insights
Wallet Insights gives users a clearer view of their spending by connecting eligible payment accounts. It can show spending trends, recurring transactions, account balances, and other financial information. Availability varies by region.
53. Bill Splitting
Apple Intelligence can analyze a receipt and calculate how much each person owes, including individual items, taxes, and tips. The feature works through Wallet, Messages, and Siri’s Camera mode, with Apple Cash required in the US.
54. Enhanced Wallet Passes
The richer pass experience introduced for boarding passes now extends to loyalty cards, rewards cards, gift cards, and membership passes. These passes can display more useful information and richer visuals directly in Wallet.
55. More Barcode Support
Wallet adds support for four additional barcode formats: EAN-13, Code 39, Codabar, and ITF, making it possible to digitize a wider range of physical cards and passes.
56. Expanded Order Tracking
Wallet’s order tracking feature expands to Australia and Canada, allowing users in those regions to keep track of eligible purchases directly in the app.
57. Better Hotel Keys
Digital hotel keys get an upgrade in iOS 27, with participating hotels able to provide additional trip details, activities, and available services alongside the room key in Wallet.
58. Apple Pay Checkout Improvements
Apple Pay gets a refreshed checkout experience that makes it easier to switch between payment cards. Eligible cards can also show additional information, including rewards balances, debit account balances, and financing options.
iOS 27 Health And Fitness Features
iOS 27 expands Apple’s Health and Fitness experience with new tracking tools, gym equipment support, and improvements to the way health information is displayed.
59. Perimenopause And Menopause Tracking
Cycle Tracking now supports perimenopause and menopause. The Health app can identify patterns that may indicate perimenopause and provides symptom logging and educational resources.
60. Redesigned Health App
The Health app gets a refreshed Browse section with colorful cards that make health categories easier to navigate. Health also gains landscape support on iPhone for viewing information with more screen space.
61. GymKit On iPhone
GymKit support is coming directly to iPhone, allowing users to connect with compatible gym equipment without needing an Apple Watch. Supported machines can sync workout information such as calories, distance, speed, incline, and pace to the Fitness app.
62. More Accurate Fitness Tracking
iOS 27 improves route maps in the Fitness app and makes treadmill workout distance tracking more accurate, giving users more reliable workout data.
63. Visual Intelligence Food Analysis
Visual Intelligence can analyze food using the iPhone camera and provide information about its nutritional characteristics. It can highlight things such as protein content, sugar, and whether food is heavily processed without attempting to provide an exact calorie count.
iOS 27 CarPlay Features
64. Siri AI Comes To CarPlay
Siri AI brings natural-language conversations to CarPlay, letting drivers ask questions, find information from messages or emails, and complete tasks without manually searching through apps. Siri conversations from CarPlay also sync with the Siri app on iPhone.
65. Audio Scrubber in Now Playing
CarPlay adds an audio scrubber to the Now Playing screen, making it easier to jump to a specific point in podcasts, music, and other audio. Media apps also get a new MiniPlayer with playback controls and album artwork.
66. Natural-Language Navigation
Apple Maps can understand more natural navigation requests in CarPlay. Drivers can ask Siri for routes that avoid toll roads or highways, while supported navigation apps can share route information with the vehicle, including EV charging stops.
67. Video Apps While Parked
iOS 27 allows developers to create CarPlay apps with video playback when the vehicle is parked. Playback automatically switches to audio when the car starts moving, but the feature requires support from the automaker.
68. More Reliable Wireless CarPlay
Apple is improving CarPlay reliability with better wireless connections, GPS accuracy, and navigation heading detection. GPS improvements also benefit wired CarPlay connections.
69. New CarPlay Wallpapers
CarPlay gets new iOS 27-inspired wallpapers in 18 color variants, giving drivers more ways to customize the dashboard.
70. Updated CarPlay Icons
The Liquid Glass design extends to CarPlay, bringing redesigned app icons, larger content thumbnails, and a more consistent visual appearance across the dashboard.
71. Improved Navigation App Support
Third-party navigation apps gain expanded voice-control capabilities and can provide route information to compatible vehicles, including details such as EV charging stops based on the vehicle’s range.
iOS 27 AirPods features
72. Custom EQ for AirPods
iOS 27 adds a built-in three-band equalizer for compatible AirPods, letting users adjust lows, mids, and highs. An interactive preview lets you hear changes before applying them, with an option to return to Apple’s default sound profile.
73.System-Wide Audio Customization
The custom EQ works across the system rather than being limited to a specific app. Your audio settings can carry across music, videos, games, podcasts, and calls.
74. Expanded AirPods Improvements
iOS 27 also brings broader AirPods improvements, including better device switching, accessibility updates, and deeper Apple Intelligence integration.
75. Compatible AirPods Models
The custom EQ requires AirPods with Apple’s H2 chip. Supported models include AirPods Pro 2 with USB-C, AirPods Pro 3, AirPods 4, and AirPods Max 2.
iOS 27 Accessibility Features
76. Smarter VoiceOver Descriptions
VoiceOver gains Image Explorer, which uses Apple Intelligence to provide more detailed descriptions of photos, scanned documents, bills, and other visual content. Users can also ask follow-up questions about what the camera sees.
77. AI-Powered Magnifier
Magnifier can answer spoken questions about documents and surroundings, while natural-language commands make it easier to zoom, activate the flashlight, and control the app.
78. Natural-Language Voice Control
Voice Control becomes more flexible by understanding natural-language commands. Users can describe what they want to tap or select without memorizing exact labels or numbered controls.
79. Smarter Accessibility Reader
Accessibility Reader can better handle complex documents with columns, tables, scientific content, and images. Apple Intelligence can also summarize and translate content while preserving its original formatting.
80. AI-Generated Subtitles
Apple Intelligence can automatically generate subtitles for videos that do not already have captions. The feature works across iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV, and Apple Vision Pro, with subtitle generation handled on-device.
81. Eye-Controlled Wheelchair Support
visionOS 27 introduces eye-controlled support for compatible power wheelchairs, allowing users to control supported alternative drive systems through Apple Vision Pro’s eye-tracking technology.
iOS 27 Privacy And Security Features
82. Private Apple Intelligence Processing
Apple continues to split Apple Intelligence processing between the iPhone and Private Cloud Compute. Requests that can be handled on-device stay on the iPhone, while more demanding tasks can use Apple’s privacy-focused cloud infrastructure.
83. Automatic Password Updates
The Passwords app can work with Safari to automatically update weak or compromised passwords on supported websites. Apple Intelligence can handle the process of navigating to the site, changing the password, and saving the new credentials.
84. More Control Over App Access
iOS 27 expands privacy controls around the information apps can access and how system services use personal data, giving users more visibility and control over their information.
85. Expanded Security Protections
iOS 27 includes additional security improvements across the operating system and built-in apps, strengthening protections for accounts, personal information, and everyday device use.
iOS 27 Performance Improvements
Some of the biggest iOS 27 improvements happen behind the scenes.
Apple says app launches can be up to 30% faster, new photos can load in the Photos library up to 70% faster, and AirDrop transfers can be up to 80% faster.
86. Faster App Launches
iOS 27 improves app launch performance, helping apps open more quickly and reducing the time spent waiting for frequently used apps.
87. Faster Photos Loading
Photos can load and become available more quickly, with Apple improving how the system handles new images and content in the Photos library.
88. Faster AirDrop Transfers
AirDrop gets performance improvements that can make file and photo transfers between compatible devices noticeably faster.
89. Smoother System Interactions
Apple has refined animations, scrolling, and other system interactions in iOS 27 to make the iPhone feel more responsive during everyday use.
90. Better System Performance
Broader system optimizations improve how iOS manages resources, helping deliver better responsiveness and efficiency across apps and built-in features.
Other iOS 27 Changes
Beyond the major features, iOS 27 includes many smaller changes across the operating system.
91. More Control Over Search Results
iOS 27 gives users more control over the results shown in system Search, making it easier to find relevant apps, files, messages, and other content.
92. Refined Search Experience
Apple has updated Search with smoother animations and interface refinements, making results feel faster and more fluid as you browse and interact with them.
93. More Detailed Battery Information
The battery settings provide additional insight into power consumption, including situations where a weak cellular connection can cause the iPhone to use more power.
94. See When iOS Was Last Updated
iOS 27 can show when the iPhone was last updated, giving users a clearer view of their device’s software status.
95. More Smart Reply Controls In Mail
Mail’s Smart Reply feature gets additional personalization controls, giving users more say in how AI-generated responses are suggested.
96. Better Contact Details
Contacts can display company information more clearly in supported cases, making it easier to identify professional contacts.
97. Refined Clock Typography
Apple has updated the typography used for alarms and timers, giving the Clock app a more polished appearance.
98. Keyboard Improvements
iOS 27 includes further refinements to keyboard behavior and text input, improving the overall typing experience across the system.
99. AirDrop Improvements
AirDrop receives additional usability and performance refinements, making it easier to share content between compatible Apple devices.
100. Updated Sounds And Haptics
Apple has refined system sounds and haptic feedback throughout iOS 27, providing more consistent feedback during everyday interactions.
101. Smarter Notifications
Notifications receive additional refinements, including Apple Intelligence-powered features designed to make alerts more useful and easier to manage.
102. New Developer APIs
iOS 27 adds new APIs that let developers integrate Apple’s latest system technologies and build new capabilities into their apps.
iOS 27 Supported iPhones
iOS 27 supports the following iPhone models:
- iPhone 11
- iPhone 11 Pro
- iPhone 11 Pro Max
- iPhone SE (2nd generation)
- iPhone 12 series
- iPhone 13 series
- iPhone SE (3rd generation)
- iPhone 14 series
- iPhone 15 series
- iPhone 16 series
- iPhone 17 series
- iPhone 17e
- iPhone 18 series
However, iOS 27 compatibility does not mean every iPhone supports every feature.
Apple Intelligence requires newer hardware, and some individual features have additional device, language, or regional requirements.
Which iPhones Support Apple Intelligence?
Apple Intelligence on iPhone is available on:
- iPhone 15 Pro
- iPhone 15 Pro Max
- iPhone 16 series
- iPhone 17 series
Apple says availability can vary by language and region.
Which iPhones Support Siri AI?
Siri AI requires an Apple Intelligence-compatible device.
Siri AI ships as a beta feature limited to English at launch, with additional languages expected to follow. The feature is subject to daily usage limits, with expanded access available for a fee in the future. Siri AI is not available in the European Union on iOS 27 at launch, as Apple continues discussions with the European Commission over regulatory requirements.
Do Older iPhones Get The New Liquid Glass Features?
Many of the iOS 27 design changes are available across supported iPhones, but individual features can have hardware requirements.
iOS 27 Released September 14, 2026
iOS 27 became available to the public on Monday, September 14, 2026, roughly around 10 a.m. Pacific Time. The release followed Apple’s “Surprise and Shine” event on September 9, where the company confirmed the iPhone 18 Pro, iPhone 18 Pro Max, and iPhone Duo alongside the release date.
Every iPhone listed above can install iOS 27 today through Settings, General, and Software Update.
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