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iOS 27: All The Little Things

Has anyone noticed that keyboard character preview is different? The ‘magnified’ key when you tap one isn’t connected to the original letter on the keyboard like it was in previous iOS versions.
 

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I have two shortcuts that need to save a variable in between uses. The solution was to write the variable out to a file, and read it back in as needed.

In iOS 27, there are new actions called "Storage", and you can create a "storage" to be local to that shortcut or globally available. I've not used the latter, but I assume this means any shortcut can access it.

You could even use these to set default or hard-code values rather than have them directly in the shortcut. (You can edit them in the new Storage section.)

Click (i) at the bottom of a shortcut:
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techspinning said:
iCloud Photos has a new option to Sync to iCloud Immediately with the only option is For Today or Off
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I've not worked out what that does.

Photos I take are sync'd very quickly to my Macbook (also on the beta), and edits I make there get sync'd back very quickly. As do any deletes.

So I'm not sure what extra can by synchronised or how much faster.
 
adrianlondon said:
I've not worked out what that does.

Photos I take are sync'd very quickly to my Macbook (also on the beta), and edits I make there get sync'd back very quickly. As do any deletes.

So I'm not sure what extra can by synchronised or how much faster.
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It's probably there for when you're on mobile data or don't have high battery percentage, which can delay syncing.
I recently had a day where I took a loooot of pictures and some long videos and none of them were synced because I was on mobile data, even though I have unlimited data and I have it toggled on in settings. Seems like it's more of a battery than data thing.
 
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More shortcut stuff:

I have a few which send commands to my Philips Hue hub, for turning lights on/off, setting scenes etc. and they all have the URL in them that's needed to send the commands.

I created a global "storage" variable, and refer to that in every shortcut now. So if I ever change my Hue hub's IP address I can simply edit the variable.
 
When watching video via the TV app, the media now ‘defaults’ to filling the screen. There also doesn’t appear to be an option to move to the letterboxed format that previously toggled with a pinch-to-zoom.
 
In Apple Home, you can now seamlessly scroll through a single timeline of security camera events that involve multiple cameras. Each event even has its own little thumbnail to help find the right one.

No more manually jumping back and forth between individual camera timelines trying to find the same spot on each.

Very slick. Very impressed.
 
bchery21 said:
Can someone confirm if you can manually identify/tag a person in the Photos app instead of relying on the app to do it itself?
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Kinda. Swipe up on photo and on the bottom left it has a small circle of the person, if they're not identified it has a small blue question mark and you can add the person
 
For a long time (years?) I've been using Siri to facetime someone.

"FaceTime John" and Siri would respond "FaceTime John Smith, mobile" as it was using the number I'd stored in Contacts under the field "mobile".

Since iOS 27, Siri is now replying with "FaceTime John Smith". It's just one word removed, but it sounds much cleaner.
 
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