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 has just unveiled iOS 27, the next major update for the iPhone, at WWDC 2026. This year, there isn’t much to get excited about in terms of new features, nor is there a new interface following last year’s major update that introduced Liquid Glass. It’s a lot of refinements, AI, and optimizations to make your iPhone feel faster.

Apple has officially launched the first developer beta of iOS 27, bringing a host of new features and refinements.

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.

OS 27 could bring major AI upgrades, smarter Siri, and big iOS performance and stability improvements. Here’s everything we’ve heard so far about the 2026 iOS update.

Technically, it’s a feature of macOS 15.4, but if you also have an iPhone running iOS 18.4, you can now use your iPhone to set up a new Mac. Image courtesy Apple The requirements are pretty simple. You need a Mac using macOS Sequoia 15.4 or later that ...

Now that the iOS 18 developer beta is out for users to test, we know how to launch the Apple Vision Pro-like feature. To use the new eye tracking feature, you must download the iOS 18 developer beta.

I give the company credit for seeing that the kind of demo it wants to make requires trust. Right now, that’s something Apple has to earn back.