Apple Shares List of 250 Changes Across iOS 27, macOS Golden Gate, and More

[MacRumors]

During its WWDC 2026 keynote on Monday, Apple briefly showed a slide with hundreds of new features and enhancements coming across iOS 27, macOS 27 Golden Gate, watchOS 27, tvOS 27, and visionOS 27. All of the software updates are currently available as developer betas, and they are expected to be released to all users in September.

We already highlighted some of the key new features from the slide, and now we have shared a categorized list of all of the more than 250 changes shown.

iPhone & iOS 27 & iPadOS 27

• Switch between two iPhone devices with the same phone number
• More seamless transitions between Wi-Fi and cellular networks
• Live Activities in Dynamic Island in landscape
• Enhanced power efficiency for Safari in iOS
• Faster Voice Control response in iOS
• Extra-large widgets in iOS
• Streamlined setup for Touch Accommodations in iOS and iPadOS
• Live Activity for Precision Finding with Friends
• Smoother scrolling in App Library
• Smoother unlocking on iPhone
• Undo and redo Home Screen edits in iPadOS
• Extra-large widgets in Today View in iPadOS
• Faster window closing in iPadOS
• Faster browsing and transfers in Files in iPadOS
• Faster menu bar access in iPadOS
• iPhone app resizing in iPadOS
• Apple News+ audio support in iPadOS
• Faster window switching in iPadOS
• Optional persistent menu bar on iPad
• App names in iPad status bar
• Dual camera in FaceTime
• Faster Lock Screen switching
• Lock Screen consistently stays awake while scrolling notifications
• More power-efficient Personal Hotspot on N1 devices
• Expanded touch support in Sidecar
• Independent alarm volumes
• Smoother camera switching when zooming in video
• Smoother paging between Home Screen pages
• Smoother scrolling in Control Center and Control Gallery
• Easier-to-reach Camera experience
• More accurate photo orientation
• Faster and more reliable NFC reading
• Quick Start with a recovery contact
• Pairing and handoff improvements for Made for iPhone hearing devices
• Faster entry and exit from Assistive Access and Guided Access modes
• Proactive car key setup

macOS 27

• More relevant Spotlight search suggestions
• Faster shortcuts and actions indexing in Spotlight
• Drawing in Notes in macOS
• Updated video podcasts experience in macOS
• Enhanced power efficiency for Safari in macOS
• Edge-to-edge sidebars
• Colorful sidebar icons
• Updated menu bar icons
• Uniform toolbars
• Consistent corner radii
• Faster user account creation in macOS
• Ethernet status in menu bar in macOS
• Improved RDMA over Thunderbolt
• Support for Mac mirroring in 5K resolution
• More high-resolution and high-refresh-rate display modes for external displays
• Swipe down to refresh in macOS
• Smoother scrolling in Safari in macOS
• App resizing in iPhone Mirroring
• DRM video support in iPhone Mirroring
• Drawing in Freeform in macOS
• Smoother animations in Mission Control and Spaces
• Show Borders for macOS accessibility
• HDR for macOS system UI

Apple TV & tvOS 27

• Faster AirPlay connections to Apple TV
• Smart downloads on Apple TV
• AppleCare coverage details in Settings in tvOS
• More responsive Control Center in tvOS
• Redesigned Podcasts app for tvOS
• Larger text sizes in tvOS
• Smoother animations and app launches in tvOS

Apple Watch & watchOS 27

• Better battery efficiency on Apple Watch
• More accurate step tracking on Apple Watch
• More efficient water detection on Apple Watch
• Improved Wi-Fi connectivity in watchOS
• Apple Wallet guest keys in watchOS
• Consolidated Find My app in watchOS
• Faster app extension launch in watchOS
• Tap gesture on Apple Watch
• Faster media playback in watchOS
• Dynamic app grid in watchOS
• Maps Parked Car widget in Smart Stack
• Redesigned settings in the Apple Watch app
• Support for time zone changes in Sleep
• View card balance in Wallet in watchOS
• Transit cards and IDs in Smart Stack in watchOS
• New Smart Stack suggestions in watchOS

Vision Pro & visionOS 27

• Use your panoramas for Environments in visionOS
• Extra-small widget option in visionOS
• New windows with curvature in visionOS
• Improved Control Center in visionOS
• Look and tap to view and respond to notifications in visionOS
• Spatial scene support for panoramas in visionOS
• Faster boot and connect to Wi-Fi in visionOS
• Widget for Mac Virtual Display in visionOS
• Multiple tab views in Safari in visionOS

Home & HomePod

• Faster AirPlay connections to HomePod
• Improved connectivity for Thread home accessories
• Faster smart home accessory updates
• Faster HomeKit accessory pairing
• More reliable HomeKit camera storage

CarPlay

• Audio scrubbing on CarPlay's Now Playing screen
• Improved navigation heading and GPS accuracy in CarPlay
• Improved wireless CarPlay reliability
• Audio MiniPlayer in CarPlay

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[ghostface147]

That's quite a bit of under the hood improvements.

 

[Love-hate 🍏 relationship]

for people on macOS 27, can you disable HDR UI just like on ios 26.3? in accessiblity/display and text/disable brightening elements

 

[123jmail]

Out of all those things, I think I'd love to see AirDrop work more reliably. Anyone out there remember DropCopy from 10base-t. I just discovered that it's still around. LOL
Man, that was just an app that just worked.

 

[I7guy]

All that and less bugs and more battery life? Bring it on.

 

[CalMin]

Impressive. They have been busy little bees.

It seems to me that following the heavy lifting of a UI overhaul last time around with Liquid Glass, this is the 'Snow Leopard' release where the focus is a nip, tuck, and polish in every corner of the OS experience. That and, of course, more AI.

 

[jz0309]

that is quite a list, lots to digest ...

 

[contacos]

now do a EU list please

 

[Kylo83]

just fix the keyboard typing and move . from safari keyboard so.typing.isnt.like.this

 

[Kylo83]

if there will be no bugs, they wont need iOS 27.1 or iOS 27.2 etc

 

[Sheepish-Lord]

Safari scrolling is awful in the new beta, not sure what they're talking about.

 

[Lounge vibes 05]

if there will be no bugs, they wont need iOS 27.1 or iOS 27.2 etc

That is not how that works.
There will still be bugs, there will still be security issues, there will still be new devices that need to be supported, and there likely will still be new features and modifications added along the way.

 

[Apple Knowledge Navigator]

Can we just do this every year and stop the gimmicks? Thanks.

 

[JosephAW]

You know with RDMA, the next Mac Studio should come with at least eight thunderbolt ports if not more for clustering. 🤔

 

[jslberto]

Safari scrolling is awful in the new beta, not sure what they're talking about.

Well, the answer to your concern is in your comment. It’s beta.

 

[Kylo83]

half of this wont come until iOS 27.4

 

[CyberGene]

As a software developer I can tell you what just happened. Apple started using AI coding assistants, most probably the most capable one: Anthropic Opus, or even Fable/Mythos and asked it to analyze their code and improve it. And frankly speaking, iOS has been such a wreck recently, no surprise the AI found and fixed/improved so many things 😀 But I guess the Apple engineers should not feel miserable, they can still do something "useful" like including a new Pride wallpaper.

 

[awshucks]

Someone please make this into a YouTube video. I'm too lazy to read it all

 

[Bogies4]

Wish they fixed more bugs in Apple Music like: bring back "Join CD Tracks" during import, Move the mini player from the bottom of the window to the top again (where there isn't anything for it to cover up), allow user to personalize artist icon (instead of letting Apple get it wrong), fix crossfade so that upcoming song doesn't fade in, but overlaps fade-out of previous song (you know, like radio Dj's have been doing since the beginning).

 

[ghanwani]

So much innovation.

I guess this explains why they didn't have time to figure out how to add a knob that disables dithering.

 

[jayducharme]

A lot of the changes can be distilled down to "smoother and faster".

 

[Steve Adams]

So much innovation.

I guess this explains why they didn't have time to figure out how to add a knob that disables dithering.

I am completely fine with this. You don't need some whizbang garbage when the current crop of whizbang garbage is running like garbage. I am excited to have a better overall experience on my ipad. The 26 update was very sluggish and had a lot of wonky things.

 

[mlayer]

if there will be no bugs, they wont need iOS 27.1 or iOS 27.2 etc

I already filed a feedback - iPhone mirroring isn't working.

 

[bookcase]

I don't use my iPhone to its fullest capabilities now, so most of these improvements will likely remain a mystery to me, too. I never want to invest the time it takes to unravel it all. But it'll be easier once 27 is in my hands and I can follow along. Right now, it's so abstract for something that 3+ months away.

 

[breather]

”Improved unread badge accuracy in Mail”

Oh I hope they fixed this unread/read sync issues that’s been around for years.