Moof! Apple Snuck a Dogcow Into iOS 27 - Here's How to Find It

Apple has included a playful Easter egg in iOS 27 for users to discover. After updating to the new operating system, open the Settings app and navigate to Appearance ➝ Liquid Glass. Scroll all the way to the bottom of the Welcome to Apple Park sample images, and continue dragging up until the word Moof! appears in the search bar overlay.

At this point, the image changes, revealing a bitmap depiction of the well-known dogcow. Originally, this image was utilized to illustrate page layout in the early Mac OS, signaling the orientation of printed paper to users. The dogcow's original character was devised by Susan Kare for the Cairo dingbat font that accompanied the initial Mac in 1984, and it later became the emblem of Apple's Developer Technical Support.

While Apple developers were fond of embedding Easter eggs in software during the company's infancy, such surprises are now more subtle and serve more as nods to the company's origins rather than anything unauthorized. There have been instances of such hidden gems in macOS over time.