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iOS 27 Will Reportedly Have Two Key Upgrades
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This implies you have an idea of just what that redesign would look like. Care to share. What sort of new ways of using it are you envisioning? Personally, I don't see a radically new way of using a phone (or similar devices) until some years from now when truly useful (and fashionable) glasses with augmented reality displays are practical. If that happens you can have very small phones with close to no display that work with those glasses. But you may have some vision for the more current class of phones that I've never considered.
I wish they would do these types of releases every 3-4 years, and make them an LTS (Long Term Support) release so they get actual updates and fixes for those 3-4 years so people can opt to stay on them.
I have never skipped an OS version since I bought a mac in 2006 and an iPhone 4. I have delayed installing a new version but never skipped it. This may be the first time. Based on what I have been reading on this forum. I have no fomo at the prospect of waiting until version 27.
I wish there was a way to know what version of MacOS and iOS the executives at Apple are running.
I wish there was a way to know what version of MacOS and iOS the executives at Apple are running.
Bug fixes are nice.
A single switch to fully disable the Liquid Arse theme would also be nice.
A single switch to fully disable the Liquid Arse theme would also be nice.
The only update we got his year was the awful Liquid Glass which already they are pushing back on, so what another year with no new features? A whole beta year of bug free os is impossible. I would rather a buggy iOS with new features than a new iOS that claims to be bug free and no new features
omfg how many times are you going to post the exact same thing?
Except for iOS 12. That was an incredible release right from the first beta. The worst issue that I had experienced throughout the beta process was in developer beta 3 where the dock and folders had a green tint to them. On iPad, the only major problem I had experienced was a keyboard button placement issue addressed in 12.0.1.
Sure, some people experienced other occasional bugs here and there. But overall it was absolutely fantastic.
This is terrific news! I can't wait to try these updates next year. Super excited for this!
as any software developer can tell you: adding more engineers doesn't help for stuff like this.
In fact it can actually make things worse. You can add more people to work on some brand new apps without too much harm to the larger goal of better code, but adding to existing code always comes with risk.
I will never understand the notion that iOS 26 is unusable due to bugs. It has been the most bug free iOS release for me in literal years. Now, I understand that that's completely anecdotal, but I also don't hear anyone I know (average users) complain ever.
Granted, iOS 26.0.1 was not great at all, but 26.0 (all betas) as well as - and especially - 26.1 have been fantastic. This is coming from someone who desperately longs for the days of iOS 12.
While I do understand the hate for Liquid Glass (only because I realize that design is subjective), I absolutely fell in the love with it from the moment I saw it. In fact, and I will take the extreme here, I wish they would push even further into the clear glass look without giving people the option to change it outside of Accessibility settings. Just like how it used to be.
Granted, iOS 26.0.1 was not great at all, but 26.0 (all betas) as well as - and especially - 26.1 have been fantastic. This is coming from someone who desperately longs for the days of iOS 12.
While I do understand the hate for Liquid Glass (only because I realize that design is subjective), I absolutely fell in the love with it from the moment I saw it. In fact, and I will take the extreme here, I wish they would push even further into the clear glass look without giving people the option to change it outside of Accessibility settings. Just like how it used to be.
iOS 17 was the last version that kept the iOS 7 look. iOS 18 was the first step to a new look and it can be seen with the updated Control Center look that is different from the iOS 11 to iOS 17 Control Center.
iOS 26 was supposed to be a refinement of iOS 18 but no, they made further changes that caused performance issues most noticeable in non-Apple intelligence iPhone models. They should have left iPhone 11 series on iOS 18 but instead, they allowed iOS 26 which is very performance heavy and seems to be less stable than iOS 18.
iOS 11 was buggy, no doubt about it, but at least it did not ruin the text alignment on the Music widget when you have not played anything, unlike what happened with iOS 12.
iOS 12 was indeed a step back and fix the issues release, and can be called Snow Leopard for iOS, but will they really do the same with iOS 27? I highly doubt it. I still think the new features they were supposed to introduce back then, not all of them have been released even with the upcoming iOS 26.2
iOS 26 was supposed to be a refinement of iOS 18 but no, they made further changes that caused performance issues most noticeable in non-Apple intelligence iPhone models. They should have left iPhone 11 series on iOS 18 but instead, they allowed iOS 26 which is very performance heavy and seems to be less stable than iOS 18.
iOS 11 was buggy, no doubt about it, but at least it did not ruin the text alignment on the Music widget when you have not played anything, unlike what happened with iOS 12.
iOS 12 was indeed a step back and fix the issues release, and can be called Snow Leopard for iOS, but will they really do the same with iOS 27? I highly doubt it. I still think the new features they were supposed to introduce back then, not all of them have been released even with the upcoming iOS 26.2
Can they please bring the apple watch app to the iPad to manage and sync apple watch from iPad? Thank you
They are about to pack it full of AI crap like Windows and Android I bet
Thate likelyhood makes me sad.
We can really only hope the bubble bursts before they go too far down that track.
Even turning off "Apple Intelligence" now still leaves too much of it running with word prediction/correction getting it wrong so often, and people recognition in photos still there.
Yep. 😞
I find myself wondering if I'll be literally forced onto Linux + GrapheneOS at some point.
This news kinda validates my expressed thesis I’ve talked about here that all version 26 Apple OS’s are essentially large scale publicly released Betas. Not ready for prime time or general use. So I will continue to sit on iOS 18 and MacOS 15 until Apple stops signing them or until 27.1 comes out. Not 27 mind you. 27.1
What change do you want? Change for the sake of change is pointless and aggravating if you have to redo a workflow around the change.
Yet iOS 12 was a direct response to the horrible rollout of iOS 11. Apple thought the moment iOS 12 was released with the focus on quality of life and stability improvements here and there, that all their sins would be forgiven and forgotten as well as them never again having to continuously refine their OS year after year to avoid the cesspool of bugs and unstable rollout of their past releases... EXCEPT they didn't because iOS 13 would go on to once again prove that they didn't learn anything the year prior. Unfortunately the problem with Apple's QA of all of their OSes is so much deeper than we know or may think we know because if it is this bad on the public "surface" level, imagine how bad and chaotic it is behind closed doors...
My thoughts as well for some of these posts. Now if they listed some specific things they've been wishing for that would be fine, but it seems they want to be "blown away" by some unknown big change.