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Apple to Unveil iOS 27 in June With These New Features Beyond Siri

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Apple is expected to unveil iOS 27 during its WWDC 2026 keynote on June 8, and the update should be released in September.

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Below, we outline some of the new features that are rumored to be coming with iOS 27, beyond the long-awaited more personalized version of Siri.

iOS 27 will reportedly support 5G satellite internet connectivity, although this functionality might be limited to the upcoming iPhone 18 Pro models with Apple's next-generation C2 modem. Additional satellite features have been rumored, including Apple Maps via satellite and the ability to send and receive photos when using Messages via satellite.

iOS 27 may be similar to Mac OS X Snow Leopard, in the sense that Apple is apparently focused on improving "quality and underlying performance." Apple is expected to focus on bug fixes, improved stability, and Liquid Glass design enhancements.

Apple has reportedly tested an updated iPhone keyboard with enhanced autocorrect. The features should debut on iOS 27 if Apple moves forward with it. Similar to Grammarly, the keyboard "expands autocorrect by offering alternative words."

iOS 27 is not expected to include any major Liquid Glass design changes, but the update may add a system-wide Liquid Glass slider for precisely adjusting the opacity of the interface. A similar slider already exists for the Lock Screen's clock.

The update may include four new Apple Intelligence features for the iPhone 15 Pro and newer, based on code on Apple's servers discovered by Nicolás Alvarez:
  • Visual Intelligence will let you scan nutrition labels on food packaging, for tracking calories and macronutrients in the Health app.
  • Visual Intelligence will let you scan phone numbers and addresses printed on paper or a business card and add them to the Contacts app.
  • In the Wallet app, you will likely be able to scan physical event tickets, gym membership cards, and so forth and generate digital versions.
  • In the Safari app, you will be able to automatically name Tab Groups for users based on the contents of the tabs within the group.
Of course, these are only the features that are known or rumored so far. More details about iOS 27 will likely leak over the coming months.

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I wish we got more intel for non-AI Siri and what that would bring?

I do hope the bring some basic features they still haven’t implemented.

Hopefully, they also don’t phase out the iPhone 11’s, etc. Everyone should get the iOS that is supposed to improve iOS 26. We’ll see if the delay a year (not sure if they have before).
 
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Interesting that Apple doesn't want to own the satellites at all. Before the original rollout of the iPhone, Apple had considered launching their own cellular network for it. The cost/benefit wasn't there - there was plenty of competition between the networks and it'd take Apple too long to surpass them for it to make sense.

With satellites, Apple is doing exclusive deals with networks no consumer is choosing for themselves (granted, consumers couldn't even if they wanted to for some reason.) I suppose the satellite operators are making this totally free for Apple, or maybe even covering the cost of Apple doing anything on their side? This gives everyone some leverage against Starlink to pretend that there's some viable competition to it.
 
"iOS 27" text in the photo looks kinda neat, but has awful legibility due to low contrast. Which is one of Liquid Glass's problems -- legibility and low contrast.

Most text, like pretty much all the text on macrumors.com including the text in this post I'm currently writing, has high contrast and thus is highly legible. It's functional. Apple's Liquid Glass is not functional in this respect.
 
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"and Liquid Glass design enhancements."

So Liquid 🍑 is removed? Since this is the only fix possible. Especially Tabbars are beyond repair and I see more and more cutom Tabbar implementations. Also Apples own Apps don't follow this bad user experience, like e.g. Passwords. No clear selection e.g. in Phone App where this strange frosted glass like magnifier overlay moves freely and strange.

Android does it better, and Android 16 is around the corner and may finally surpass Apples UI in terms of usability.
 
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Zenman12 said:
Hopefully they also don’t phase out the iPhone 11s etc. everyone should get the iOS that is supposed to improve iOS 26. We’ll see if the delay a year (not sure if they have before).
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None of iOS 6, 9, 12, 14, 15, 18 dropped support for previous devices (plus iPhoneOS 1-3). So there’s roughly a 1 in 3 chance.

However, every time they do this, they are effectively increasing the total lifetime of models by a year, unless they also have updates that drop multiple generations at once. Since they are already at seven years, it’s less likely that they’ll expand it to eight years.
 
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I really hope the autocorrect on iPad realises when I type something like “5he” I meant to type “the” but went a bit high on where the T is. It can do it for all letters but seems incapable of recognising when it happens with numbers.
 
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None of iOS 6, 9, 12, 14, 15, 18 dropped support for previous devices (plus iPhoneOS 1-3). So there’s roughly a 1 in 3 chance.

However, every time they do this, they are effectively increasing the total lifetime of models by a year, unless they also have updates that drop multiple generations at once. Since they are already at seven years, it’s less likely that they’ll expand it to eight years.
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iOS 4, 5, 7, 8, 10 and 11 also stopped support for older iPhones. Just saying
 
Awesome! Particularly looking forward to the nutrition labels, phone, and address scanning features, and auto tab group naming. But most of all, looking forward to some improved quality and performance. 🤞🤞
 
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