Everything New in iOS 27 Beta 5

[MacRumors]

We're a little over a month away from the launch of iOS 27, and Apple is continuing to make changes. The fifth beta of iOS 27 changes the look of some app icons and adjusts Liquid Glass, plus it adds some smaller features that make the iPhone just a little nicer to use.

App Icons

There are updated Liquid Glass icons for Safari, Siri, Settings, Remote, App Store, and Preview. Some of the icons have been entirely redesigned, while others feature more detail than before.

Siri AI Voice Customization

Voice customizations for Siri AI have been expanded, and Pace and Expressivity can be adjusted for all seven American voices and the four British voices.

Siri AI voice customization is done on-device, so the feature is limited the iPhone 17 Pro, iPhone 17 Pro Max, or iPhone Air.
Contacts

If a contact you've created has a company associated with it, the company name will show in the contact list under the name and in search. It makes it easier to see more information on a contact without having to tap into the contact card.

Create a Pass

The Apple Wallet Create a Pass feature is now available outside of the U.S.

Splash Screens

Apple added splash screens for the Photos, Wallet, and Music apps, explaining what's new in iOS 27.

Search and Ask

Apple made minor changes to the animation when bringing up Search or Ask. The suggestions interface now comes up as the search bar does rather than popping up slightly afterward.

The search interface also now has a "Search the Web" option at the bottom of results that was not there before.

Apps in Search

You can now decide whether search should show app results, and if so, how many. You can turn off app results, have it show four apps, or have it show eight apps. There's also a toggle for showing app shortcuts.

Control Center

When connected to Wi-Fi, the Control Center no longer shows information on cellular connection.

The iOS 27 Control Center in beta 4​

5G

5G+ is now available in Spain.

Software Updates

When you look at your software version in Settings > General > About, it now tells you when the last update was installed.

Clock

There is a thicker font for the Alarms and Timers section of the Clock app.

Liquid Glass

The clearest Liquid Glass setting is clearer than it was in the prior beta.

Mail

There's now a toggle for the Personalize Smart Replies feature in the Mail app. It's off by default and can be turned on in the Mail section of the Settings app.

Battery

The Battery section of the Settings app will now let you know if a poor cellular connection is causing battery drain.

Article Link: Everything New in iOS 27 Beta 5

 

[AusMness]

Create a pass has worked in Canada since day 1

 

[skiguy45]

The clearest Liquid Glass setting is clearer than it was in the prior beta.

How about making the most opaque Liquid glass setting more opaque than it was in iOS 26!

 

[Rafagon]

I like being able to see the date the most recent iOS update was installed.

 

[Sandybox]

New icons, thicker fonts - Oh my word, this kind of innovation is astonishing. How do they maintain this level of innovation? All this done without the genius of Elon Musk! The world is in safe hands.

 

[AppleWes]

New icons, thicker fonts - Oh my word, this kind of innovation is astonishing.

The entire OS layout doesn't need to be changed with every version release. I'd rather get multiple visual refinements with behind the scenes processes working better vs fancy new user interface alone.

People will jump on here to complain no matter what, yet they never leave Apple.

 

[jwm]

All this took 3 weeks.😉

 

[mikeack]

All this took 3 weeks.😉

We don't know what sort of performance enhancements and debugging happened. We're just seeing UI changes.

 

[dannys1]

Battery
The Battery section of the Settings app will now let you know if a poor cellular connection is causing battery drain.

That's not new, it's been around for years. I know only too well, I live in a place where my mobile coverage being 0 to 1 bars would use most of my battery. I know have a Shortcuts automation that turns Airplane mode on when I connect to my home wifi and turns it off when I disconnect from it.

This screenshot is from 2020.

 

[svish]

Overall small changes. Ability to check battery drain due to poor connectivity is a surprising addition. Not installed beta. Waiting to try out iOS 27

 

[TheBeverage]

When connected to Wi-Fi, the Control Center no longer shows information on cellular connection.

Why? That was a great addition.

 

[nortonandreev]

Create a pass has worked in Canada since day 1

Europe too

 

[sbailey4]

All this took 3 weeks.😉

Have a look at the release notes. Maybe THAT'S why it took 3 weeks. 🙂

 

[jeremyw013]

The Battery section of the Settings app will now let you know if a poor cellular connection is causing battery drain.

that’s not new. i had this on my trip last week. and it’s apparently even older than that considering someone else’s reply.

 

[Minato1990]

New icons, thicker fonts - Oh my word, this kind of innovation is astonishing. How do they maintain this level of innovation? All this done without the genius of Elon Musk! The world is in safe hands.

Yeah they not pedo white supremacists like your idol Elon musk

Anyways…
I had to disable chatgpt again through the new siri.
Sam bozo attaman can play somewhere else

 

[KillerScoregasm]

Saw that the AI stuff was taking up double digit GB of storage. If you disable it all, can anyone confirm if that problem goes away?

 

[sxbino]

Am I the only one who does not see any difference between the Clear and Opaque liquid glass slider?

 

[Kkspire]

Only regression was removing the ability to see the cellular network connection when on WiFi in control center. I liked knowing what network I’d connect to if I dropped WiFi.

 

[macintologist]

I wish you could customize the age of the person. It would be nice if you could choose young adult, middle age, or senior citizen

 

[Minato1990]

Only regression was removing the ability to see the cellular network connection when on WiFi in control center. I liked knowing what network I’d connect to if I dropped WiFi.

Yeah I wonder if cellular companies had a say in this.
Because it wasn’t an inconvenience at all

 

[Lounge vibes 05]

I don’t understand the complaints about too many small changes, and not enough big ones.
That’s basically been the theme of all of this year’s updates. Hundreds of little improvements throughout the OS’s.
We’re likely less than a month away from RC, the iPhones that are being released next month are being flashed with a near final build to ship with, it’s likely if there is a Betas 6 and 7 that they will almost completely be stability and final optimizations related.

If there is anything slightly more interesting coming, it likely won’t be until the 27.1 testing starts in September.

 

[mkalaf]

Create a Pass has already been available outside US. I’m on beta 4, and in Australia…

 

[krspkbl]

Nice. Downloading right now.

It’s the 5th beta and we’re about half way into August. There aren’t going to be major changes.

 

[jozeppy26]

Saw that the AI stuff was taking up double digit GB of storage. If you disable it all, can anyone confirm if that problem goes away?

Almost 30 gigs on my iPad Pro, granted I have 1 terabyte of space.

 

[sully54]

Noooo not the Sony Ericsson Siri app logo!