iOS 27 Beta 5 ― Bug Fixes, Changes, and Improvements

[GregJohn]

My iPad keyboard pops up and then disappears, and I have to invoke it again. Has been like this in Safari since beta 1.. I’m beginning to think this is not something that they will fix

 

[Shin-Ra]

I am having issues with touch alignment in Safari with top menu bars on sites like Gmail and Facebook.

Indeed, I’m finding the red zone pictured is unresponsive to touch.

If I can’t touch the lowest part of a button (or search field) below the red zone I have to pinch to zoom larger to tap.

 

[dwrufus53]

Seems to be ok on my end 🖐️

Mine, too... including a mostly grey card.

 

[Brettka7]

I am having issues with touch alignment in Safari with top menu bars on sites like Gmail and Facebook.

I can’t tap notifications on this website unless I make Safari full-screen. The touch box is low and to the left compared to the button.

 

[Ethan.Albano]

AirPods Switching between my 15PM and M1 Pro MBP is LEAGUES faster. Night and day difference.

 

[teeshot44]

I am having issues with touch alignment in Safari with top menu bars on sites like Gmail and Facebook.

Unable to close a tab by using the X in the corner. Ther’s an alignment issue.

 

[sbailey4]

Reading through the b5 release notes, lots of bugs are now fixed, great news.

Was about to say has anyone read the release notes. A LOT of "Fixed.....xyz" in there. Nice!

 

[nalk7]

Not sure if its from this beta or last but compass has a new icon as well 😱

 

[Dust-by-Monday]

Did anyone notice how Safari now blurs the top of the screen near the battery and clock icons? It never did that before!

 

[oscar_aa]

I have a dummy switch from home assistant linked into HomeKit as a trigger. When it’s turned on it will get the temperature and humidity from a couple of HomePod minis and then send it back to home assistant. This was working fine until iOS 27 beta. For now I have had to create the same workflow in shortcuts but triggered every 15 mins on my iPad instead of by the dummy switch.

If you test the automation it’s run locally and works but if triggered by an automation it fails on the “get contents” portion or the workflow.

I’m not familiar with the Home Assistant app. I see it listed on the working/not-working thread wiki page, but maybe there is a nuance to how you’re using it that isn’t working/compatible with iOS 27 yet? Perhaps someone is that thread can try to match what you’re doing and troubleshoot.

iOS 27 - Working and Non-working apps thread

Requests: Air NZ Alpian (Swiss banking app) BoostLingo (InterpreterManager) CheapCharts Enpass Finpension (Swiss investment and retirement management app) GameChanger Garmin Connect Infuse LastPass App & Authenticator MoneyWiz Mullvad VPN - app opens/appears functional, no account on test...

forums.macrumors.com

 

[dgreening]

Did anyone notice how Safari now blurs the top of the screen near the battery and clock icons? It never did that before!

I don't see this on my iPhone or iPad.

 

[Brettka7]

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Not sure if its from this beta or last but compass has a new icon as well 😱

Looks squiggly. Its the N E S W reflected in the glass dome built into the icon

 

[Cobalt Blizzard]

Did anyone notice how Safari now blurs the top of the screen near the battery and clock icons? It never did that before!

It did that in iOS 26, they brought it back for whatever reason.

 

[Iced]

I’ve had this on all iOS 27 beta versions but I don’t see anyone else talking about it. Does anyone else have a persistent stutter when opening apps? iPhone 16 pro max here.

 

[chrismcl]

I have a dummy switch from home assistant linked into HomeKit as a trigger. When it’s turned on it will get the temperature and humidity from a couple of HomePod minis and then send it back to home assistant. This was working fine until iOS 27 beta. For now I have had to create the same workflow in shortcuts but triggered every 15 mins on my iPad instead of by the dummy switch.

If you test the automation it’s run locally and works but if triggered by an automation it fails on the “get contents” portion or the workflow.

I discovered a bug in beta 4 that still present in beta 5, it could be related to your problem.

FB23893604 (tvOS 27 beta 4: Home app hub-executed automations — all network- and location-dependent Shortcuts actions fail silently)

When an Apple TV (tvOS 27 beta 4/5) is acting as the Home Hub and executes a Home app automation containing a Shortcuts action that requires network access or location services, the action fails silently with no error shown anywhere, and the automation halts — no subsequent actions in the shortcut run. The same shortcut runs correctly every time when triggered manually on iPhone/iPadOS. It also runs correctly on a home hub running OS 26. This is a hub-execution-context-specific regression, not a network, DNS, or shortcut logic issue.

…

Actions confirmed to fail when hub-executed:
- Get Contents of URL (tested against both LAN hostname, LAN static IP, and external HTTPS — e.g. https://apple.com)
- Get Headers of URL
- Get Contents of Web Page
- Get Items from RSS Feeds (note: "Get RSS Feeds from ," which only discovers feed URLs on a page, works correctly — the distinction below is significant)
- Get Current Location
- Get Weather Forecast (both "at Current Location" and "at [specified location]")
- Get Weather

Actions confirmed to work when hub-executed:
- Get RSS Feeds from URL (feed discovery only, does not fetch feed content)
- All of the other home related actions seem to work fine, but I haven’t tested exhaustively.

 

[narenh]

The screenshot bug from b4 seems to be fixed (where screenshots taken on 27b4 would render garbled on 26 or Tahoe)

 

[Sal09]

5G+ symbol for 5G SA or is that old?

 

[Knowlege Bomb]

5G+ symbol for 5G SA or is that old?

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Ooh wallpaper please.

I don’t think that’s new. There’s posts on Reddit from three years ago talking about it.

 

[DimaVR6]

In this beta my hot spot is greyed out the option ? I wonder why ? Completely disabled

 

[lexsteele]

You can now swipe up from the bottom to get rid of Siri search.

 

[TheByteSmasher]

New preview icon?:

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Clearly, that’s the Voorvertoning icon, not Preview, spelled totally differently 😂

 

[TheByteSmasher]

I am seeing it though... wait for it

Ditto. Also, if I searched in mail in the previous beta I got an indexing message. Still there and the other one is back

 

[Artemiz]

You can now swipe up from the bottom to get rid of Siri search.

It’s how it always has been. Not new.

 

[s2mike]

Umm… long pressing on the Safari app in the App Library creates a new Safari app on a fresh home page… and continues to happen every time you long press.

EDIT — wow this happens with multiple apps. Simply long pressing apps like Safari, Music, Mail, Messages, etc add those apps to a new homepage

 

[Brettka7]

The difference between DB1 and DB5 icons is almost as much as the difference between iOS 26 and 27. They’re looking so much better over time. The dark shading in the DB1 icon layers was a bit too dramatic.