5 iPhone features you should be using after updating to iOS 27

iOS 27 has made the iPhone more capable and stable. After updating your iPhone to iOS 27, you should definitely explore these five features:

Apple Intelligence has received a significant upgrade. While it initially struggled with generating custom emojis, iOS 27 now allows you to create shortcuts using natural language prompts. This new feature uses Apple Intelligence to create shortcuts based on your descriptions. You can manually edit the shortcuts to ensure they function as intended. The AI models offered by Apple Intelligence include an on-device model for faster processing, with a daily usage limit for the higher-tier models.

The Wallet app now supports custom passes. You can create personalized passes for loyalty cards or gym memberships that don't offer native Apple Wallet support. To create a pass, you can either take a photo of the ticket or ID card with a barcode or open the Wallet app and tap on the "+" icon to create a new pass. The Wallet app will then use Visual Intelligence to extract relevant information from the image and generate a pass.

Siri AI is now available on iOS 27. Users with compatible iPhones can join the waitlist to access this AI-powered virtual assistant. Siri has improved significantly, offering more relevant responses and better handling of follow-up queries. It can also understand personal context, pulling information from messages, emails, photos, and more to answer questions or perform tasks.

Siri's AI capabilities are limited to third-party apps, but it works well within iMessage and the default Mail app on your iPhone. Additionally, Siri now has a new Siri mode in the Camera app, which uses Visual Intelligence to answer questions about the objects you're pointing the camera at.