iOS 27 Now Available: 10 Features to Try First

iOS 27 has been officially released, making it available for iPhone users with models starting from the iPhone 11. The new operating system brings Siri AI, Apple Intelligence features, Liquid Glass updates, and performance improvements, making the iPhone feel faster overall.

Performance enhancements in iOS 27 are noticeable from the moment the software is downloaded. Features such as animations, app launches, AirDrop transfers, photo-taking, keyboard usage, App Library navigation, and Home Screen switching become quicker and smoother. Photos taken, accessed, or opened also experience enhanced speed. Additionally, iMessages between devices are synced more accurately, with messages that fail to send being automatically retried, and smooth transitions between Wi-Fi and cellular networks.

Most of the new features in iOS 27 rely on Apple Intelligence and an iPhone 15 Pro or later; however, under-the-hood improvements are accessible on all iPhones, so even older models will feel faster. The article provides a list of the best performance improvements in iOS 27.

Siri AI, the upgraded version in iOS 27, functions more like ChatGPT or Claude. With the ability to engage in back-and-forth conversations, Siri AI can perform various tasks using access to private data like messages, emails, photos, apps, and more. It can search the web, creating home automation commands, finding specific emails, messages, photos, and documents, deleting files, emails, photos, or messages, adding items to a shopping list, suggesting activities, and even answering general knowledge queries.

Siri AI can also integrate with the Contacts app to gather additional information like birthdays or phone numbers and retrieve passwords stored in the Passwords app.

Visual Intelligence, now present in the Camera app, allows users to access it by swiping to a new Siri mode. This feature can provide nutritional values of food, calculate amounts owed from a receipt image, and perform tasks like deleting files, emails, photos, or messages. Write with Siri, a system-wide feature, enables text generation from scratch and provides feedback, changes in tone or wording, and writing in the user's style by analyzing their emails and messages. The iPhone also suggests grammar fixes, including spelling and grammar.

Photos Clean Up, a tool that removes unwanted objects from images in the Photos app, has been improved in iOS 27. It now cleans up more convincingly by removing unwanted objects and filling in what's missing. New Extend and Reframe image tools let users extend photo borders using AI, change perspective or composition. The full guide to iOS 27 Photos features covers all these enhancements.

The Liquid Glass slider, introduced in iOS 27, lets users choose the clarity or opacity of buttons, toolbars, and menus. It can be found in the Settings app under Appearance, then tapping Liquid Glass. In Safari, users can create custom extensions with natural language commands, which is helpful for specific tasks without existing extensions.

Some sample suggestions include creating a citation for the current webpage, setting a focus timer, adjusting font size, turning a webpage into a 90s-style design, highlighting webpage elements, and watching for changes on a webpage.

In the Home app, HomeKit Secure Video cameras now support 2K and 4K recording. An AI feature offers text descriptions of home events, and there's an option to search through videos using natural language. These AI features require a 2TB iCloud + plan for one camera and a higher plan for multiple cameras, while 4K streaming doesn't.

The full guide to iOS 27 Home improvements provides more details. Lastly, AirPods EQ allows users to adjust the sound of their AirPods by tweaking mids, highs, and lows. Custom EQ is available for AirPods 4 and later.