iOS 27 brings up to 30% faster app launches, 80% faster AirDrop, and 70% faster Photos loading, and it runs on every iPhone that supports iOS 26.
iOS 27 Safari uses AI to organize your tabs into topics and adds Notify Me, which watches a webpage and alerts you to changes like price drops or restocks.
macOS 27 Golden Gate runs only on Apple Silicon Macs. Here is the full list of supported M-series models and the four Intel Macs that lose support.
macOS 27 Golden Gate goes Apple Silicon only, adds a Gemini-powered Siri, refines Liquid Glass, and rebuilds Spotlight. Here is every confirmed change.
macOS 27 Golden Gate refines Liquid Glass with an intensity slider, better contrast, cleaner window corners, and edge-to-edge sidebars to fix readability.
macOS 27 Golden Gate speeds up AirDrop, network file browsing, Safari, and Spotlight, with core system improvements on the Apple Silicon-only release.
macOS 27 is the last version with full Rosetta 2, so older Intel apps still run on Apple Silicon. The real cutoff comes with macOS 28 in 2027.
macOS 27 Golden Gate rebuilds Spotlight with Siri built in, natural-language search, multi-file analysis, and a new index for near-instant results.
iOS 27 ships a rebuilt Siri on Google Gemini, Apple Intelligence Extensions for ChatGPT and Claude, and Visual Intelligence as a dedicated Camera mode.
iOS 27 adds a customizable widget strip to Camera. Add flash, resolution, depth of field, and Live Photo controls you actually use and hide the rest.
iOS 27 supports every iPhone with an A13 Bionic chip or newer, keeping iPhone 11 and iPhone SE 2nd gen. Full compatibility list and what it means for you.
iOS 27 Photos adds Extend, Enhance, and Reframe. Fill beyond the frame, fix color and lighting, and correct perspective. All three run on-device.
Apple says iOS 27 is coming this fall but has not announced the exact release date. See the confirmed timeline, beta status, and launch-day steps.
iOS 27 redesigns Siri with a chat interface, Dynamic Island home, a standalone Siri app, multi-step command support, and persistent conversation history.
iOS 27 introduces an Extensions framework that lets you choose Gemini, Claude, or ChatGPT as your preferred AI provider inside Siri and Writing Tools.
iOS 27 adds a dedicated Siri camera mode for Visual Intelligence, with nutrition label scanning, business card reading, and Wallet ticket import.