Everything New in iOS 27 Beta 3

[MacRumors]

Apple is continuing to refine iOS 27 ahead of its planned September launch, and the third beta includes several new features. Siri is more customizable, there's a fun new wallpaper action, and some useful improvements to Photos and Shortcuts.

Siri Voice

Beta 3 adds support for Siri voice customization on compatible devices. The customization option existed in prior betas, but it was not active. It's now usable, and you can customize the pace and expressivity of Siri, with two base voice options available right now.

Siri voice customization requires an iPhone 17 Pro or an iPhone Air because it uses on-device processing.

Live Recognition

In Accessibility, Apple added a new Live Recognition section. Live Recognition uses on-device intelligence to detect and describe things around you with the camera app. The feature is able to answer questions about what it sees, with an option to set a default question. There's also support for custom activities.

Reminders

The Reminders app has an updated icon with Liquid Glass to-do list bullets.

Photos

In the Photos section of the Settings app, there's a new Show Rating Controls toggle. It displays star ratings on photos and videos, and shows a rating badge on thumbnails.

Control Center

In Control Center, you can see details about your cellular connection even when connected to Wi-Fi. It shows signal strength and whether you're connected to LTE or 5G.

Shortcuts

You can now choose whether to open to the Describe a Shortcut interface or the manual Shortcuts editor when creating a new shortcut.

Wallpaper

When you swipe down into the notification center, a cutout of the subject of your wallpaper now appears first over the Home Screen or app you're using.

iOS 27 beta 3 adds a new wallpaper animation which is so smooth pic.twitter.com/8LzBOx3HMD— Aaron (@Aaronp613) July 6, 2026​

AirPods

The Adaptive setting on the AirPods has a slider that lets you select more transparency or more noise cancellation.

Home App

Apple clarified that Apple Intelligence features in the Home app will require a 2GB iCloud+ plan.

Maps

Apple added a tooltip to make it clearer that route preferences haven't been eliminated and can be accessed by tapping under the options interface when getting directions.

Lock Screen

The Control Center buttons on the Lock Screen now have black icons instead of white icons with some wallpaper.

5G in India

5G+ is now available in India on supported carriers.

Article Link: Everything New in iOS 27 Beta 3

 

[ItsASpider]

The lockscreen animation still doesn't make any sense for the metaphor they're using here being a sheet of glass, and now it also just looks terrible if your wallpaper isn't optimized for this effect.

Also, various icons got design updates; the shadows are much less intense so they appear less like "black borders".

 

[chuckles235]

Does the keyboard work or does it still just spit out typos

 

[Havalo]

Talk to me when Shortcut has finally grown a spine and turn off data for individual applications.

 

[M4irmidnight]

Apple is continuing to refine iOS 27 ahead of its planned September launch, and the third beta includes several new features. Siri is more customizable, there's a fun new wallpaper action, and some useful improvements to Photos and Shortcuts.

Siri Voice

Beta 3 adds support for Siri voice customization on compatible devices. The customization option existed in prior betas, but it was not active. It's now usable, and you can customize the pace and expressivity of Siri, with two base voice options available right now.

Siri voice customization requires an iPhone 17 Pro or an iPhone Air because it uses on-device processing.

Live Recognition

In Accessibility, Apple added a new Live Recognition section. Live Recognition uses on-device intelligence to detect and describe things around you with the camera app. The feature is able to answer questions about what it sees, with an option to set a default question. There's also support for custom activities.

Reminders

The Reminders app has an updated icon with Liquid Glass to-do list bullets.

Photos

In the Photos section of the Settings app, there's a new Show Rating Controls toggle. It displays star ratings on photos and videos, and shows a rating badge on thumbnails.

Control Center

In Control Center, you can see details about your cellular connection even when connected to Wi-Fi. It shows signal strength and whether you're connected to LTE or 5G.

Shortcuts

You can now choose whether to open to the Describe a Shortcut interface or the manual Shortcuts editor when creating a new shortcut.

Wallpaper

When you swipe down into the notification center, a cutout of the subject of your wallpaper now appears first over the Home Screen or app you're using.

iOS 27 beta 3 adds a new wallpaper animation which is so smooth pic.twitter.com/8LzBOx3HMD— Aaron (@Aaronp613) July 6, 2026​

AirPods

The Adaptive setting on the AirPods has a slider that lets you select more transparency or more noise cancellation.

Home App

Apple clarified that Apple Intelligence features in the Home app will require a 2GB iCloud+ plan.

Maps

Apple added a tooltip to make it clearer that route preferences haven't been eliminated and can be accessed by tapping under the options interface when getting directions.

Lock Screen

The Control Center buttons on the Lock Screen now have black icons instead of white icons with some wallpaper.

5G in India

5G+ is now available in India on supported carriers.

Article Link: Everything New in iOS 27 Beta 3

I can’t believe Tim is forcing himself at us like this on his way out. I don’t even mind him but he’s gone too far.

Bring on JT! 😉

 

[DBZmusicboy01]

Lightning fast on the iPhone 11 Pro Max.

 

[Dashey]

There’s a typo, Apple Intelligence features in the Home app require 2TB Plan, not 2GB as said in the article.

 

[-BigMac-]

Apple is continuing to refine iOS 27 ahead of its planned September launch, and the third beta includes several new features. Siri is more customizable, there's a fun new wallpaper action, and some useful improvements to Photos and Shortcuts.

Siri Voice

Beta 3 adds support for Siri voice customization on compatible devices. The customization option existed in prior betas, but it was not active. It's now usable, and you can customize the pace and expressivity of Siri, with two base voice options available right now.

Siri voice customization requires an iPhone 17 Pro or an iPhone Air because it uses on-device processing.

Live Recognition

In Accessibility, Apple added a new Live Recognition section. Live Recognition uses on-device intelligence to detect and describe things around you with the camera app. The feature is able to answer questions about what it sees, with an option to set a default question. There's also support for custom activities.

Reminders

The Reminders app has an updated icon with Liquid Glass to-do list bullets.

Photos

In the Photos section of the Settings app, there's a new Show Rating Controls toggle. It displays star ratings on photos and videos, and shows a rating badge on thumbnails.

Control Center

In Control Center, you can see details about your cellular connection even when connected to Wi-Fi. It shows signal strength and whether you're connected to LTE or 5G.

Shortcuts

You can now choose whether to open to the Describe a Shortcut interface or the manual Shortcuts editor when creating a new shortcut.

Wallpaper

When you swipe down into the notification center, a cutout of the subject of your wallpaper now appears first over the Home Screen or app you're using.

iOS 27 beta 3 adds a new wallpaper animation which is so smooth pic.twitter.com/8LzBOx3HMD— Aaron (@Aaronp613) July 6, 2026​

AirPods

The Adaptive setting on the AirPods has a slider that lets you select more transparency or more noise cancellation.

Home App

Apple clarified that Apple Intelligence features in the Home app will require a 2GB iCloud+ plan.

Maps

Apple added a tooltip to make it clearer that route preferences haven't been eliminated and can be accessed by tapping under the options interface when getting directions.

Lock Screen

The Control Center buttons on the Lock Screen now have black icons instead of white icons with some wallpaper.

5G in India

5G+ is now available in India on supported carriers.

Article Link: Everything New in iOS 27 Beta 3

The wallpaper effect is surely a new bug

 

[applefan8254]

Can we get option to have 'require faceID' to be a separate partition like private space/secure folder

 

[Astuces iOS]

Meh update, it doesn't fix the bugs

 

[svish]

Control center change for cellular network and WiFi is good. Looking forward to trying out Siri voice.

 

[HQuest]

It has finally released Siri (Beta) app for me to use; locked since day 1 of iOS 27 beta, but still showing as "indexing".

 

[csalm87]

Meh update, it doesn't fix the bugs

What bugs haven't been fixed for you?

 

[mansplains]

The new design for adaptive audio is better than the current one. I can’t stand how many settings have a dedicated page like this, being a ux designer is a curse when you see terrible decisions everywhere.

 

[Rafagon]

Does Apple Watch do any indexing? Just curious, even though yes I do realize the Apple Watch doesn't necessarily store any significant amount of the user's data.

 

[Astuces iOS]

What bugs haven't been fixed for you?

The charging bug, I'm not the only, when you plug your iPhone, it doesn't charge, you need to plug/unplug a lot until it charges... this is a very messy bug since I sometimes think that my phone is charging but it's not !

 

[DoctorKrabs]

Wow. They went and made the horrible nonsense trash Notification Center animation apply system-wide now instead of just on the home screen. Look at the layers. This is something only Apple could do.

 

[Radeon85]

The new expressive Siri works great, but as I’m in the UK it only has the American voice at the moment, fine with me as I prefer it anyway 😄

 

[EM2013]

That wallpaper animation is not smooth at all 😂

 

[iDento]

Reminders has three nipples now.

 

[eifelbube]

Legibility and Clarity at the top
Lipstick and Cosmetics at the bottom

 

[mactracker]

Advanced Dictation Preview is now automatically enabled on iPhone Air, iPhone 17 Pro, and iPhone 17 Pro Max. The Advanced Dictation Preview option in Keyboard settings has been removed.

You might have to wait until the "Apple Intelligence assets need to finish downloading." message disappears under the ChatGPT setting in Settings > Siri to use the new dictation model.

You can check if you're using Advanced Dictation by inspecting the logs your iPhone creates while dictating. Connect your iPhone to a Mac and open the Console app on your Mac. In the sidebar, select your iPhone, start the log streaming, and type FoundationModelTranscriber in the search bar. Start a dictation on your iPhone. You’ll see “Using FoundationModelTranscriber for this request” if your iPhone is using the new Advanced Dictation models.

Note that the model is English-only (com.apple.fm.language.instruct_3b.asr_natural_dictation_speech?language=en).