iOS 27 Beta 4 ― Bug Fixes, Changes, and Improvements

[Ethan.Albano]

Finding that with CarPlay, if you use Siri to dictate a text, when your done music doesn't resume.

I’ve also noticed it’s less likely to resume music. If I invoke Siri via “hey siri,” music resumes. If I click a text message from the messages app, then reply, it typically does not resume, whereas before it did.

 

[ibookemo]

The fact that the 27 betas on everything are this stable at this early stage is impressive at least.

Maybe to you it will be "underwhelming" but that's what it was kinda supposed to be by design. Fixing all the nagging issues (including with Siri) to refine what is already there. It's essentially a maintenance release. This has been common knowledge for quite some time now.

This release was never supposed to WOW you.

No argument on the stability. That part has been genuinely impressive and it is the sort of improvement you feel every day for a year rather than once in a demo.

But the maintenance release framing was the pre-WWDC rumour narrative, not what Apple actually shipped. The keynote was built around Siri AI. It has a dedicated app, a new Camera mode, an expanded Visual Intelligence, and Apple thought it significant enough to publish a newsroom post explaining why the EU won't be getting it. You don't issue a regional exclusion statement about a maintenance release.

That is really the point. If iOS 27 were purely refinement, there would be nothing for us to be excluded from. The exclusion list exists precisely because there is a headline feature. So in the US, iOS 27 is maintenance plus a new assistant. In Ireland it is maintenance. Same update, same hardware, same price, different product.

I'm not asking to be wowed. I'd just rather people didn't tell me the release was always meant to be modest, when the reason it is modest here is that the immodest bit was removed at the border.

 

[Eksoccer99]

Has anyone noticed that several widgets are no longer available recently? Tesla and X are a couple worth mentioning.

Yes my widget page got borked on a few apps. Had to reboot.

 

[Grayburn]

Swear my battery is getting worse with every new version, it normally gets better as the beta progresses.

 

[one more]

Swear my battery is getting worse with every new version, it normally gets better as the beta progresses.

The battery will get optimised just before the public release, as right now they are in full on testing and debugging mode.

 

[DimaVR6]

So I’m having RCS issue 15 PM and only with one user. Under RCS it says waiting for activation t-mobile . I tried 8 different Android users and RCS txt is working fine but when I send txt to my mother it goes out as SMS when she txt me in comes in as RCS? Never had has RCS issue till this beta and never had activation issues but I think it’s a false positive message as RCS is working for 99 percent of my contacts except 1 (my mother) and only while me sending txt to her from my iPhone

Anyone experiencing this issue ? Any work around for this ? Or wait for another beta ?

 

[CPmav]

Came across a really annoying Siri bug. Siri can’t seem to find an existing list in reminders to add items to.

Already reported to Apple.

 

[adrianlondon]

Came across a really annoying Siri bug. Siri can’t seem to find an existing list in reminders to add items to.

Already reported to Apple.

This bug was fixed in DB2 or 3 and has come back. I've just tested it and yes, it refuses to find any lists and will create a duplicate if forced.

It also then messes up what it should be adding, and adds some random stuff to it.

Feedback logged, and referred back to the one that I closed after they'd fixed it previously.

 

[DimaVR6]

So I’m having RCS issue 15 PM and only with one user. Under RCS it says waiting for activation t-mobile . I tried 8 different Android users and RCS txt is working fine but when I send txt to my mother it goes out as SMS when she txt me in comes in as RCS? Never had has RCS issue till this beta and never had activation issues but I think it’s a false positive message as RCS is working for 99 percent of my contacts except 1 (my mother) and only while me sending txt to her from my iPhone

Anyone experiencing this issue ? Any work around for this ? Or wait for another beta ?

Had T-Mobile just now push me a new esim and it’s still having same issue .

Also all my contact pictures are blank and posters and all that ? Anyone else have this issue ? On my iMac all my contract pictures and posters are there and I am synch from office 365 outlook contacts and iPhone isn’t picking up the picture into my iPhone ?

 

[StumpyBloke]

Had T-Mobile just now push me a new esim and it’s still having same issue .

Also all my contact pictures are blank and posters and all that ? Anyone else have this issue ? On my iMac all my contract pictures and posters are there and I am synch from office 365 outlook contacts and iPhone isn’t picking up the picture into my iPhone ?

Have you sent feedback to Apple?

 

[SAMtheGAM]

So I’m having RCS issue 15 PM and only with one user. Under RCS it says waiting for activation t-mobile . I tried 8 different Android users and RCS txt is working fine but when I send txt to my mother it goes out as SMS when she txt me in comes in as RCS? Never had has RCS issue till this beta and never had activation issues but I think it’s a false positive message as RCS is working for 99 percent of my contacts except 1 (my mother) and only while me sending txt to her from my iPhone

Anyone experiencing this issue ? Any work around for this ? Or wait for another beta ?

Reset network settings and you should be able to send RCS texts to your mom again. I have the issue where I receive RCS but send SMS to one of my contacts the beginning of the month. Resetting network settings always restores RCS both ways on iOS 26. I suspect I will have the same issue with iOS 27.

 

[iLuddite]

No argument on the stability. That part has been genuinely impressive and it is the sort of improvement you feel every day for a year rather than once in a demo.

But the maintenance release framing was the pre-WWDC rumour narrative, not what Apple actually shipped. The keynote was built around Siri AI. It has a dedicated app, a new Camera mode, an expanded Visual Intelligence, and Apple thought it significant enough to publish a newsroom post explaining why the EU won't be getting it. You don't issue a regional exclusion statement about a maintenance release.

That is really the point. If iOS 27 were purely refinement, there would be nothing for us to be excluded from. The exclusion list exists precisely because there is a headline feature. So in the US, iOS 27 is maintenance plus a new assistant. In Ireland it is maintenance. Same update, same hardware, same price, different product.

I'm not asking to be wowed. I'd just rather people didn't tell me the release was always meant to be modest, when the reason it is modest here is that the immodest bit was removed at the border.

Honey the AI..