iOS 27: Latest News, Features & Release Date [Tracker]

We all know that Apple’s upcoming iOS 27 is set to feature an upgraded Siri experience, and now Bloomberg has given us the first look. Bloomberg shares detailed images of the Siri experience and what it’s going to look like.

These images give us a pretty good glimpse of where Siri will be integrated across the UI. The leaked images also show the dedicated Siri app. Most of the user experience is bland, mostly with mono white and black colors without gradient colors insight.

You can see the images for yourself. However, Bloomberg also notes that the final version may change. Once again, Apple is going to rely on its smooth animations for the best experience. Also, this is our first look at the upgraded city experience in the upcoming iOS 27.

There are so many features lined up for the upcoming iOS 27, including revamped Siri, new AI writing tools, big upgrades to the shortcuts, and much more. Latest reports reveal that you can generate your own wallpapers using AI. AI image generation models have gotten so much better recently, especially the latest ChatGPT Image Gen and Google Nano banana.

I am anticipating that Apple might be using Google’s Gemini Nano Banana image model for wallpaper generation, but we should see which model is powering this feature. What’s more convenient is that you can directly generate wallpapers and set them as your background.

The report mentions this will be part of the Image Playground app that is already present on iPhones, so you should be able to generate wallpapers in different styles. There is no information on whether these wallpapers will support Apple features such as depth effect natively, but I am not expecting it anytime soon.

The shortcuts app on iOS is the most underrated. One of the biggest reasons for this is the technicality behind creating the shortcuts. Not many people are aware of creating shortcuts.

Personally, I use Shortcuts a lot for automating my routine tasks. For instance, every single day, my Apple Watch wallpaper changes. I have set the shortcuts to automatically run every single morning without any intervention.

But that is hopefully going to change in the future, as the latest report from Bloomberg suggests that Apple is going to add the ability to create shortcuts using natural conversations.

Instead of dealing with the complex shortcuts and automation flows, you can simply describe what you want, and iOS will build the shortcuts for you. AI building things isn’t new. Currently, all the AI models are primarily focused on this approach. In the upcoming iOS 27, the Shortcuts app should be able to integrate this with ease.

But we should see what Apple’s approach will be, since it is struggling with its AI implementation. I am also not sure whether this will be powered by Siri or the Gemini-powered Siri that Apple partnered with Google to use.

AI writing tools are the first set of Apple Intelligence features that Apple introduced in iOS 18. But since then, I have really felt like those app features were left out. Apple has slightly updated them in iOS 18.2.6, but they are not up to the mark, especially in this AI era.

Hopefully, that’s going to change in the upcoming iOS 27. According to the latest report by Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, the upcoming iOS 27 will feature advanced AI writing tools. Similar to Grammarly, the iOS keyboard will include a feature that can fix spelling mistakes and suggest writing solutions. Plus, along with this, you can also completely generate text from scratch using the Write with Siri toggle.

Since Apple is using Gemini, it should be able to offer better solutions. Google recently announced Rambler, its voice-to-text input that integrated directly into the Google Keyboard. We should see whether Apple will offer such features.

Apple, since the beginning, has emphasized privacy for AI features. When Apple announced Apple Intelligence for the first time, all the AI features were said to be running on a private cloud specially designed for Apple, so that none of your chats and interactions will be used for data sharing. And now with the upcoming iOS 27, Apple is also expected to include many privacy-first features for its AI features. Siri, which is going to be the main attraction, is going to be revamped and get a chatbot-style interface similar to the current ChatGPT and other AI models. Betting on privacy, Apple is going to include a feature that comes with auto-delete chat features. Rumors suggest that Apple will offer three options for its auto-delete chats feature.

This is a big move in terms of private AI experiences. Most AI models currently need data for training, and many of them explicitly collect that data from their users. But Apple’s approach should put privacy at the forefront.

Tab grouping in Chrome is such a handy feature. If you are someone who works with multiple tabs, Tab Grouping automatically categorizes tabs into groups, reducing clutter and allowing you to easily organize and find the tabs. But Apple is going ahead and including automatic tag grouping in the upcoming major update. According to the latest report, Safari in the upcoming iOS 27 and macOS 27 is going to feature automatic tab grouping, which automatically categorizes all your tabs within Safari. The option is expected to be featured in the tab group menu, which, with a single click, can automatically organize your tabs. Currently, we don’t know exactly how this feature is going to work. We should know the full details in the coming days.

AI photo editing is honestly bad at its current state in iOS 26. If you are geeky enough, you have already seen comparisons of Samsung AI versus Apple Intelligence. Samsung and other AI tools are miles ahead. Even the budget ones, even the AI on budget smartphones that use cloud processing, are better than Apple’s AI photo editing. That is likely going to change in the upcoming iOS 27. According to the latest report, upcoming iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and even macOS 27 will get a few more AI editing features, such as color editing, lighting adjustments, enhanced image quality amd extending and reframing images

Seems like Apple is going to integrate Siri everywhere in the upcoming iOS 27. According to the latest report, iOS 27 will feature a new Siri mode in the camera app for visual intelligence support. So you can point the camera at objects, places, products, and text, and ask Siri related questions in real time. This sounds very similar to Google’s Gemini Live, but in a more Apple way. How many of you use Gemini Live on a regular basis?

I am posting this news on April 1, and believe me, this isn’t an April Fool’s joke. Apple’s upcoming Siri will now finally handle multiple requests at once. According to a report by Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, Apple is going to introduce these new multi-request capabilities in the upcoming iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27, where Siri can now handle multiple requests at once.

This news might be surprising for most people, because large language models like ChatGPT, Google Gemini, and all other LLMs currently available to users have done this since day one. However, Apple will have its own advantage here, considering Siri is going to be deeply integrated with iOS and other OSes. This means you can perform multiple tasks at once by describing them to Siri.

Mark Gurman also reports that these features are currently marked as a preview, which means they will still be under testing even at launch. All these features are expected to go live in the upcoming iOS 27.

If you use iOS and its keyboard, you know what I am talking about. The autocorrect feature on the iOS keyboard is the most annoying of all.

Many users have reported that AutoCorrect replaces correctly typed words and also silently changes words in the middle of sentences.

However, Apple addressed this in the latest iOS 26.4 update, fixing all the autocorrect issues. But in the upcoming iOS 27, Apple is rumored to be bringing a Grammarly-like approach where the auto solutions will offer alternative word suggestions instead of just fixing spelling.

And of course, it will use Apple Intelligence and will only be supported on Apple Intelligence-supported iPhones.

This feature is expected to come in the upcoming iOS 27. Apple is still considering this approach, according to the report by Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. Since this future is built using AI with context-awareness of the words, we can expect autocorrect to hallucinate less and replace words correctly.

We already know that Apple’s upcoming iOS 27 will feature a dedicated Siri AI app. And it will also support rival models, not only from Apple. This will be done through Apple’s new extension feature in the Siri app. Since the new extension is going to be a marketplace for all the AI models and Tools, we can expect more AI tools from this marketplace, not just the AI models.

Similar to how the apps distributed through App Store unlock a variety of features on iOS, the new AI marketplace inside Siri will also enable multiple opportunities for developers. This means the upcoming Siri will be not only an AI assistant, but also a complete agentic experience through various supported extensions.

If this is true, Apple is going to once again disrupt the market because it already has huge distribution in the form of iPhones.

If it opens a marketplace, it will be a big opportunity for plenty of developers to distribute their AI tools through this new marketplace. And not just for the developers, the new dedicated AI marketplace is also a huge win for Apple, as it can earn 30% commission from all the sales through this marketplace. This is similar to how it charges for the current App Store distribution.

However, we should see how Apple will approach this new strategy, as an AI marketplace isn’t new; ChatGPT and other popular apps already offer similar platforms.

Since it is an iPhone and has such a large distribution, developers will be more interested in building apps for Siri, which means it is a win-win situation for both the developers and Apple.

According to the latest report by Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, Apple’s upcoming dedicated Siri app will also support multiple models from rivals, including Claude.

For those who are unaware, in iOS 27, Apple is rumored to be introducing a new dedicated Siri app that allows users to have conversations in the form of chats, similar to how current AI chats like ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini work.

However, alongside Apple’s own models, the company will also let users use other models, such as Claude. Apple already offers this approach in the current Siri. Some of the answers from the current Siri model are offered by ChatGPT. The report also says that instead of competing directly with AI rivals, Apple is planning to offer a marketplace where it will let users use multiple models inside Siri.

Apple is rumored to announce its new foldable iPhone this year, along with the iPhone 18 series. To meet the hardware requirements, iOS 27 is expected to include proper multitasking features for the large screen. Apple has already integrated advanced multitasking features on other devices, such as the iPad, which include proper windowing for placing multiple windows on top of each other. And those features are expected in the upcoming iOS 2017, which utilizes the large screen form factor on the iPhone Fold.

While everyone is ahead of Apple in terms of AI features, Apple continues to struggle to make its Apple Intelligence features more reliable. iOS 27 is expected to be an entry point into reliable Apple Intelligence features. Apple is set to announce iOS 27 in the coming weeks, as it has already announced WWDC dates, which are going to happen from June 8th.

As we reported earlier, iOS 27 might not be a big redesign. It mostly focuses on refinements, but there are plenty of Apple Intelligence features that are rumored to arrive or be fixed in iOS 27.

Here is a list of Apple Intelligence features rumored for iOS 27 so far:

• Advanced Siri chatbot with real-time conversations
• Siri with memory support so that it remembers your context
• On-screen awareness for better replies for Siri
• Better app control across apps
• AI web search inside Siri
• File analysis for documents
• AI image generation in Siri
• Smarter AI features in Calendar
• AI-powered health recommendations
• Some Siri features may use Google Gemini
• And more.

Along with this, Apple is also expected to include deep integration of Apple Intelligence features throughout the OS.