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I rate all the new features introduced with iOS 26 to tell you how much I use them after spending nearly a year using Apple's latest iPhone software.
Apple's WWDC 2026 was full of updates for the daily iPhone user experience - here's how you can try iOS 27 early for free.
Shortcuts gets an AI upgrade, letting you describe the workflow you want in a prompt.
The 2026 Apple WWDC brings news of the latest iteration of iOS. Here's what iPhone users will see with the upgrade, likely coming later this year.
Apple announced iOS 27 at WWDC 2026, and the message this year is quite simple: this one is faster, more polished, and comes loaded with new Apple Intelligence features, including the new Siri AI. It isn’t the most visually dramatic update, but it addresses some of the most frustrating aspects of using iOS.
Siri is getting a major overhaul in iOS 27, but Apple also has some big updates planned for apps like Camera, Photos, and Wallet. There are multiple new AI features in the works, plus some non-AI upgrades.
iOS 26 brought a major new Liquid Glass design that, in some cases, led to user reports of slower iPhone performance. But Daring Fireball’s John Gruber recently went back to iOS 18 after a long time on iOS 26, and had a surprisingly different experience.
During WWDC, Apple announced the launch of Siri AI, an expansion of the virtual assistant tool that relies more on Apple Intelligence.