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iOS 27 Speculation Thread

With the introduction of Apple Creator Studio, I’m thinking there’s a pretty good chance we get improved font-handling on iPadOS 27, hopefully the Font Book app. It would make a lot of sense with Apple Creator Studio. They advertise project round-tripping for Pixelmator Pro, and it works, but the main point of friction is fonts. If the iPad has a font but the Mac doesn’t, then it will force you to change the font. If the Mac has a font the iPad doesn’t, same deal. So it would make a lot of sense to unify the font management systems between the two, so that all the same fonts can be officially installed on both.

And if they bring over Font Book to iPadOS, they could also sync it with iCloud, so that fonts installed on one device will automatically be available for installation on the other. So instead of having to replace the font, you get a popup “Would you like to install Desmond Bold font?”, (assuming it’s synced with cloud but not installed on the device) and you just tap “Yes”.

This would be a major improvement. I currently use a third-party app called iFont, and it works ok, I can install any font on my iPad with it, but it’s a bit of a hassle because it requires creating configuration profiles to do so. So this is one of my number one wishlist items. 🙂👍🏻
 
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From Rich Text to Video: RCS Universal Profile 4.0 has arrived

Tom Van Pelt, Technical Director, GSMA Delivering a consistent native messaging experience regardless of device or ecosystem is one of the primary objectives of GSMA’s Rich Communication Services (RCS) Universal Profile. We took a big step closer to that goal with the news that end-to-end...
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"Among the headline features of this new Universal Profile version is the introduction of Messaging‑Initiated Video Calls (MIVC). MIVC allows users to escalate any RCS 1‑to‑1 or group messaging session directly into a video call... When implemented, MIVC paves the way for the first natively supported video call experience that’s interoperable across a wide range of devices and networks."
 
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It looks like iOS 27 finally gets a sane version of Liquid Glass (= a slider).
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iOS 27: Three new features and changes coming besides Siri - 9to5Mac

iOS 27 will be unveiled at WWDC 2026, and rumors point to a big focus on Siri and AI, but here are three rumored features besides Siri.
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Hopefully it’s just a option to turn it off
I really liked iOS 18 and it was the stupid auto update that got me to iOS 26.2.1 and then I couldn’t go back , I do like some iOS 26 things but I cannot stand the transparency effect on everything that happens, like why would I want my apps to shimmer when I move my phone !
 
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I think this is interesting. We pretty much have confirmation that the new Siri is coming in iOS 27. It will be interesting to see how the new Siri works. And I like the idea of merging Siri and Spotlight Search together, I think it makes a lot of sense. 👍🏻

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Google teases Gemini-powered Siri upgrade during Cloud Next keynote - 9to5Mac

Apple’s upcoming Siri overhaul got a moment of stage time during Google’s Cloud Next ’26 opening keynote today. Google highlights...
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What would be great is to give the ability to skip alarms without turning them off. I have different alarm schedules for office days and remote days, so if I wake up before the alarm goes off, I would love to be able to disable it for that day so I don’t have to remember to enable them again at night.
 
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I’ll be so happy if we get a slider to frost Liquid Glass so much that is looks like the WWDC25 teasers. Currently, the implementation seems to have just a few drops of milk in it which makes it often look ugly to me. Pop-up menus are the only parts of the current OS that look like the teaser to me.

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dannyyankou said:
What would be great is to give the ability to skip alarms without turning them off. I have different alarm schedules for office days and remote days, so if I wake up before the alarm goes off, I would love to be able to disable it for that day so I don’t have to remember to enable them again at night.
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If you use the sleep schedule, you can skip a single alarm by tapping the alarm icon on the lock screen (visible when your iPhone is in sleep focus) or it gives you the option of a single day when changing the alarm.
 
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The year's Apple OS run should be very interesting, especially with Apple's contract for Google's LLM technology in place. I wonder if the first beta will include evidence of their partnership, or if that'll come later.


Has anyone seen/collected news/rumor in this area.. Apple Intelligence?
 
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The year's Apple OS run should be very interesting, especially with Apple's contract for Google's LLM technology in place. I wonder if the first beta will include evidence of their partnership, or if that'll come later.


Has anyone seen/collected news/rumor in this area.. Apple Intelligence?
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This rumor just recently dropped:

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iOS 27 Camera App to Get 'Siri' Mode With Nutrition Label Scanning

Apple is planning to integrate Apple Intelligence and Siri into more of its apps in iOS 27, including the Camera app, reports Bloomberg. The iOS 27 Camera app will have a dedicated Siri mode that will be available alongside the existing Photo, Video, Portrait, and Panorama modes. When in Siri...
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As did this one:

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iOS 27 will add three new features to Apple’s Photos app, per report - 9to5Mac

iOS 27 will include multiple new AI-powered photo editing features, according to a new report. These features will let you...
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Both look really interesting to me. I’m very excited to see iOS and iPadOS 27! 👍🏻
 
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They can't put out a stable release of iOS 26 and folks want more of a half a$$ attempt at Apple Intelligence in 27?? I'll get my popcorn ready and wait for users to complain that 27 is buggy and AI is a failure, again.

How about they work on features that actually make sense? Dismiss alarms before they go off (don't turn off the alarm, just dismiss until tomorrow), separate volume controls, schedule send messages to those not on iMessage, option to let notifications come through both the Apple Watch and phone. And last but not least, how about working on the core function of the phone that is used every single day, a functional keyboard FFS. How can a multi trillion dollar company completely neglect one of the most important pieces of a mobile device? Does Apple just not give a squirt of piss about feedback or do people not send it?
 
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I don’t get what the hate for Liquid Glass is all about. I just came from Android and I find Liquid Glass looks graphically stunning. Granted I am also a PC gamer who loves gorgeous graphics but the way light reflects and content is shown under glass looks very nice. Android skins feel plain after seeing this graphics wizardry
 
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I don’t get what the hate for Liquid Glass is all about. I just came from Android and I find Liquid Glass looks graphically stunning. Granted I am also a PC gamer who loves gorgeous graphics but the way light reflects and content is shown under glass looks very nice. Android skins feel plain after seeing this graphics wizardry
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Yep, same here. I’ve been using iOS for many years, and love the new Liquid Glass design. It looks awesome the way light reflects, and I like the depth it adds back to the system. The prior design was very flat and beginning to become kind of stale (it didn’t look “terrible”, but it didn’t look near as good as this either, IMO). 👍🏻
 
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Nice to see some positive posts about the new interface.. it's pretty nice =)

The forums are so full of complaints, and I have just never agreed. Yep, there were/are some things that could improve.. yet I think Apple has always done a good job with change over the years

I'm jazzed to see how things change in the next few years under different leadership! They've got plenty of talent, we'll see good efforts, I'm sure

PS - no change, perhaps, was as dramatic as iOS 7 - the skeuomorphism before iOS 7 was ok, but what a welcome change to go to a flat design aesthetic
 
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Radon87000 said:
I don’t get what the hate for Liquid Glass is all about. I just came from Android and I find Liquid Glass looks graphically stunning. Granted I am also a PC gamer who loves gorgeous graphics but the way light reflects and content is shown under glass looks very nice. Android skins feel plain after seeing this graphics wizardry
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I think liquid glass is technically impressive. I just really dislike the implementation in a lot of spaces. Sometimes it has just enough milkiness to the glass component that it comes off looking cheap. If Apple gives us a slider to let us either do 100% clear glass system-wide or allow us to make all components frosted, I'll be satisfied with iOS 27.

For example, I think the media player here is beautiful because I used a blurred wallpaper from the Home app. It gives off the sharp, expensive look to me. I also think the glass dock and folders look really nice because they pull colors into the live refractions but the glass doesn't dominate the Home Screen:

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I also think the pop-up menus look great because the frosting looks intentional instead of just milky:

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In comparison, this looks cheap and plasticky to me. This is how the majority of liquid glass operates IMO:

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It's certainly tough to pull off these changes well. In some environments, it doesn't present quite right, and it has improved a bit over time. In the process of this change, I'm pretty tolerant.. and I get that many tweaks and considerations have to continue to bake into the consideration of the design team to help it behave well

Over time it'll get better, and for now I enjoy the differences and squeeze through the problem areas without much hesitation. Perhaps the initial iOS 27 release gets a nice wallop of improvements, let's hope.. and give grace for the goofs (as in many areas of life)

About a month away now! =)
 
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In his Power On newsletter today, Gurman said the design changes will help to address some of the criticism surrounding macOS Tahoe's new Liquid Glass interface. In particular, the changes should improve overall readability.

"Apple aims to address the shadows and transparency quirks," he said.

In addition, Gurman said Apple is testing a new AI-powered Safari feature that can automatically organize browser tabs into groups. This feature, previously revealed by MacRumors, is expected to be available across macOS 27, iOS 27, and iPadOS 27.

"I'm told that in test versions of iOS 27, the center-top button that users can tap to move between their tab groups has a new option called 'Organize Tabs,'" he said. "You can choose whether you want the grouping to occur automatically or not."

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macOS 27: Two More Changes Leaked Ahead of WWDC Next Month

macOS 27 will have a "slight redesign" compared to macOS Tahoe, along with an option to automatically group tabs in Safari, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. In his Power On newsletter today, Gurman said the design changes will help to address some of the criticism surrounding macOS Tahoe's...
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