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iOS 27 Will Add These New Features to Your iPhone

Pay Google for Gemini service, slap the Siri name and call it a day. Now Apple can focus on bug fixing and optimization instead of stressing out with AI. I'm all for it.
 
Fear12 said:
There is 0% chance that they are going to simultaneously have a "snow leopard" focus on bug fixes and also shove in all the AI crap.
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Snow Leopard was not without new features. There just wasn’t an emphasis on new features.
 
Rumors, Rumors, Rumons, the marketing machine of Apple is on the drum. Realy hard and Loud. And we all running after that. Since a few, bad, updates, now comes the sun, the light, the promiss. Apple overpromise and underdeliver. Next will be better. Yeah, in your dreams. So much money for R&D and so less delivered. This will be the next disappointment.
 
I feel like my devices are spying on me more and more with each new release.

I’m no lounger updating my devices.

I’ll probably look towards more open systems for future needs.
 
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Fixed Ui and stability #1. Remove bloat, externalize bloat into apps u can uninstall #2. I doubt the Apple can deliver serious AI for my 15pro and no plans to upgrade.

In case of an upgrade I really have to consider switching to a Pixel Pro and evaluate integration.
 
t0pher said:
I feel like my devices are spying on me more and more with each new release.

I’m no lounger updating my devices.

I’ll probably look towards more open systems for future needs.
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Settings - privacy - microphone/contacts/camera/location/calendar/photos/etc. - Facebook/amazon/instagram/etc. - Off
 
icerabbit said:
Hoping they strip out the “ glass “, bring back color, sort out Finder issues with columns ( why has column width been a permanent issue for over decade??? ) and sort out the crap with AirPrint Printers. Every few months I need to delete printers and re-add them … then it becomes printer copy 6 7 8 … with double the strange alpha numeric code and (#)
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Snow leopard bug fixing would be most welcome. Let’s see.

I agree with all of your suggestions and I’m getting tired with how buggy Apple’s software is getting, plus poor optimisation (I’m looking at / through you Liquid Glass).

Interesting that you’re having issues with AirPrint. I’m having a similar issue.

My partner and I have an Apple TV that she is signed into and I’ve shared my AirPods 2 with ie in guest mode.

Often when she plays music etc from her iPhone 16, my AirPods 2 suddenly start playing the audio from her phone - despite being paired only to my account and never being paired with her iPhone ie it’s obviously the guest mode pairing with Apple TV that has caused this.

So this is a pretty bad bug and it’s 100% to do with hardware and software in Apple’s own ecosystem.

Something is obviously going wrong with Apple’s software engineering.

Too many new features for each year’s release over several platforms with - I suspect - not enough engineers for what Apple’s management is asking them to do, with technical debt increasing each year.
 
As someone who holds absolutely no interest in either Siri or Apple Intelligence (ever the oxymoron), I'm beginning to think there's very little indeed that will encourage me - short of security updates - to 'upgrade' to 27.
Heck, if I had my druthers, I'd be happy enough on 17.
 
if you can not dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bovine byproducts.

This years new and improved packaging will come with our new sniff effect. When you open the package, the aroma of a cattle stock yard on a hot sunny day will waft into your nostrils. This will enable the opener to realize what they just bought for lots of $$$$$
 
bluecoast said:
Snow leopard bug fixing would be most welcome. Let’s see.
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What I'm seeing is a lack of coordination with iCloud services, as well as overlooking individual platforms. Specifically, I like to use iCloud Photos as the hub for shared family photos. Exactly as advertised and intended. Photos are shared with an iPhone, iPad, and MacOS system, with iCloud as center. I'm seeing two problems.

First, my iPad has "only" 64GB, and with optimize storage turned on, of course, I still get a cache of at least 16GB (I've seen it up to 25 GB temporarily). The problem is that with 64 GB, there isn't enough room for a photo cache that big, alongside iPadOS (now 12GB) and System Data (also over 12 GB-- BTW why is this so large?). With iCloud sharing, there isn't enough room for OS upgrades to happen. So, each time, for these last upgrades, I've had to turn off photo sharing, laboriously delete photos (no easy way to do that), upgrade, and then turn sharing back on and hope for the best. It takes a while to stabilize. In the meantime, the iPhone, with 128GB, has 40 GB unused, because something limited the photo cache to 17 GB. Why can't the cache be limited to something much smaller on the much smaller storage iPad? I never had this problem before 26, so either the OS updates got much larger, or, they forgot something.

Second, photo indexing and searching seems inconsistent among the devices and across iCloud. Sometimes I am pleasantly surprised by how easily Photos can find something I'm searching for, but, it isn't consistent on all devices and across the iCloud photo system. Faces are not always consistent, either, if you use that functionality.

Since Apple provides these iCloud services that are supposed to make accessing the photos in the cloud seamless across all these devices, why can't they clean up all these details?

bluecoast said:
I agree with all of your suggestions and I’m getting tired with how buggy Apple’s software is getting, plus poor optimisation (I’m looking at / through you Liquid Glass).
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It was a large upgrade, and, it really doesn't function that well on the 3GB/64GB iPad, yet, Apple pushed this upgrade for that device and keeps literally pushing automatic updates even though it isn't always suitable for smaller devices.
bluecoast said:
So this is a pretty bad bug and it’s 100% to do with hardware and software in Apple’s own ecosystem.

Something is obviously going wrong with Apple’s software engineering.

Too many new features for each year’s release over several platforms with - I suspect - not enough engineers for what Apple’s management is asking them to do, with technical debt increasing each year.
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I doubt if it is a shortage of engineers overall. The problems that I see are due to not enough engineers working the small stuff, such as getting iCloud Photos parameters right across different-sized-storage devices, making indexing and searching work consistently across all devices connected to the user's iCloud, etc. The whole point to having these iCloud-based services gets lost if everything isn't consistent.

What was it Apple used to say? Something like,

"We take care of the little things so you don't have to."
 
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Padre_Pio said:
It will be worth it for the keyboard update alone. Autocorrect is AWFUL, often changing things to non-words. Dictation is similarly awful on iOS.
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A problem I've been hitting more recently is wildly overenthusiastic autocorrect / autocomplete. Like I'll type the word "than" and it'll "correct" that to "thank you for" because I typed that once somewhere, and then it'll take the space that I type at the end of "than", you know, to complete the word, as confirmation that I approve of those extra words. Makes me have to proofread "my" typing to see if my "assistant" has "helpfully" added a bunch of extra words for me. 🙄

And this is a thing it never used to do. It's been "improved" in the last year or so to do this.

I wish they'd expose a list somewhere in settings of "beyond just spelling correction, if you type X we're going to replace it with Y based on past things you've typed" so that I can go in and delete most of the things it thinks are helpful.
 
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BSDnostalgia said:
What I'm seeing is a lack of coordination with iCloud services, as well as overlooking individual platforms. Specifically, I like to use iCloud Photos as the hub for shared family photos. Exactly as advertised and intended. Photos are shared with an iPhone, iPad, and MacOS system, with iCloud as center. I'm seeing two problems.

First, my iPad has "only" 64GB, and with optimize storage turned on, of course, I still get a cache of at least 16GB (I've seen it up to 25 GB temporarily). The problem is that with 64 GB, there isn't enough room for a photo cache that big, alongside iPadOS (now 12GB) and System Data (also over 12 GB-- BTW why is this so large?). With iCloud sharing, there isn't enough room for OS upgrades to happen. So, each time, for these last upgrades, I've had to turn off photo sharing, laboriously delete photos (no easy way to do that), upgrade, and then turn sharing back on and hope for the best. It takes a while to stabilize. In the meantime, the iPhone, with 128GB, has 40 GB unused, because something limited the photo cache to 17 GB. Why can't the cache be limited to something much smaller on the much smaller storage iPad? I never had this problem before 26, so either the OS updates got much larger, or, they forgot something.

Second, photo indexing and searching seems inconsistent among the devices and across iCloud. Sometimes I am pleasantly surprised by how easily Photos can find something I'm searching for, but, it isn't consistent on all devices and across the iCloud photo system. Faces are not always consistent, either, if you use that functionality.

Since Apple provides these iCloud services that are supposed to make accessing the photos in the cloud seamless across all these devices, why can't they clean up all these details?



It was a large upgrade, and, it really doesn't function that well on the 3GB/64GB iPad, yet, Apple pushed this upgrade for that device and keeps literally pushing automatic updates even though it isn't always suitable for smaller devices.


I doubt if it is a shortage of engineers overall. The problems that I see are due to not enough engineers working the small stuff, such as getting iCloud Photos parameters right across different-sized-storage devices, making indexing and searching work consistently across all devices connected to the user's iCloud, etc. The whole point to having these iCloud-based services gets lost if everything isn't consistent.

What was it Apple used to say? Something like,

"We take care of the little things so you don't have to."
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Thanks for your thoughtful reply.

Those are some very significant issues that you're experiencing and the lack of attention to details, something that you'd expect of Microsoft.

Mind you - even Microsoft is better at the cloud than Apple, who you feel have never quite got to grips with this 'cloud thing'.

OK, it looks like we're going to get a significant Siri upgrade for x27. And that's OK/important to do in 2026... Well, if it actually works this time.

Aside from that, it would be very beneficial for Apple to pause on rolling out major new other features - and smaller ones, take stock of what they have and:

a) Make them work properly.
b) Optimise them.

And equally importantly:

c) Increase the discoverability of said features.

I feel that tech enthusiasts don't realise that most tech companies - including Apple - do a very poor job of c).

Does anyone truly think that regular people know about the latest features that their iPhone or Mac has?

I bet barely any regular people know about the new call screening and spam management stuff from 26. Or how to customise the Home Screen and control centre etc. Ditto previous features.

As you say, the Apple promise is that 'it just works' and increasingly, it just doesn't just work.

iOS/ipadOS are now incredibly complex with innumerable features and settings - but as you have demonstrated with your examples, does not allow the user to control the pretty important stuff such as caching.

Anyway. I hope that 27 brings some fixes that will solve your problems.
 
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