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iOS 27 to Bring Customizable Camera App, Tweaks to Weather, Safari and Liquid Glass

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Apple plans to make the Camera app more customizable in iOS 27, reports Bloomberg. Users will be able to select the features they want to see in the Camera app, like flash, exposure, timer, depth of field, photo styles, and resolution.

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Camera controls, labeled as widgets, will be able to be placed at the top of the Camera interface in any order. Users will be able to select widgets from a transparent widget tray that comes up from the bottom of the app. Widgets will be organized into categories that include basic, manual, and settings.

Apple plans to use the same default layout that's available now with quick tap buttons for flash, Live Photos, and Night Mode, but the customizable interface will be added as a new advanced layout that will appeal to professional users.

Different modes like photo and video will have their own sets of widgets, as will a new Siri camera mode that Apple plans to add to the app. Siri mode will incorporate the Visual Intelligence features that are currently accessible through the Camera Control or Action buttons.

Right now, users can tap into a view with all of the Camera controls from the top right of the app, but that view is moving to the right of the shutter button. Apple will also add new grid and level options.

In the Weather app, there will be a new Conditions panel for switching between temperature, rain, and wind. It will be the same as the interface that's available when tapping into one of the weather modules in the current version of the app.

Apple plans to add an updated start page to Safari, and it will have four tabs across the top for swapping between favorites, bookmarks, Reading List, and history.

There are system-wide design changes coming as well, according to Bloomberg. The tab bar in apps like Apple Music, Podcasts, News, and Apple TV will be adjusted to combine search with the other navigation options. Apple separated search in many apps when introducing Liquid Glass, but it sounds like the company is going to revert to the prior unified design.

When using the on-screen keyboard, there's a new animation that shows the keys sliding up from the bottom of the iPhone interface, plus Apple is adding redo and undo controls for fixing actions when customizing the Home Screen's icon and widget layouts.

Apple is planning to preview iOS 27 at the Worldwide Developers Conference that begins on June 8.

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Kylo83 said:
All apple does it change things then go back and re do them, we just need a new keyboard that works when typing not the mess we have now
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Goodness, this one still gets me. Granted, I'm on iOS 18, but coming from iOS 6 to iOS 15, then to 18, Apple somehow managed to make the keyboard's autocorrection worse than having nothing at all. I never used to have much of a problem, but it's gotten so bad that I had to turn autocorrection off because it was consistently making orders of magnitude more mistakes than I was on my own. I was actually kind of impressed in a sad way that it could actually be this terrible and not be a big enough thorn in Apple's side to force them to fix it. And this is made even more bizarre in how all of these companies are so obsessed with large language models, something which is essentially the greatest statistical prediction model for language that the world has even known, and yet they can't produce autocorrection that is at least as functional as it was a decade ago. I just don't understand how Apple can so dramatically 'snatch defeat from the jaws of victory,' as it were.
 
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People still complaining about 26 and its bugs ad nauseam. So, how long before 27 reaches the same amount of "polishness" as 26 has per today? Just saying…Im still on 18 and I don’t think I’ll be jumping first to 27.

But I really like this Camera App thinking. But also makes me think, why did they remove everything in the first place?
 
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SebCohen said:
People still complaining about 26 and its bugs ad nauseam. So, how long before 27 reaches the same amount of "polishness" as 26 has per today? Just saying…Im still on 18 and I don’t think I’ll be jumping first to 27.

But I really like this Camera App thinking. But also makes me think, why did they remove everything in the first place?
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Honestly I noticed a few bugs on iOS 26 but Apple fixed them. But I feel like there’s more bugs. Apple needs to worry about fixing bugs first before releasing features.
 
Headline is a little misleading with the “tweaks to Liquid Glass”. Combining search with the menu doesn’t change Liquid Glass.
 
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Goodness, this one still gets me. Granted, I'm on iOS 18, but coming from iOS 6 to iOS 15, then to 18, Apple somehow managed to make the keyboard's autocorrection worse than having nothing at all. I never used to have much of a problem, but it's gotten so bad that I had to turn autocorrection off because it was consistently making orders of magnitude more mistakes than I was on my own. I was actually kind of impressed in a sad way that it could actually be this terrible and not be a big enough thorn in Apple's side to force them to fix it. And this is made even more bizarre in how all of these companies are so obsessed with large language models, something which is essentially the greatest statistical prediction model for language that the world has even known, and yet they can't produce autocorrection that is at least as functional as it was a decade ago. I just don't understand how Apple can so dramatically 'snatch defeat from the jaws of victory,' as it were.
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This is what we get having a CEO that’s all about the books and not about the product at all.

Tim Cook is a great executive and could be selling anything. And that’s the problem.
 
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