iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27

Posted by throw0101d 1 hour ago

iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27(www.apple.com)

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nicbou 56 minutes ago|

That's all I want! A not-completely-useless Siri, and performance/quality of life improvements.

MacOS is fine. For the most part it gets out of my way. However I have a laundry list of small issues that have been there since my first Mac in 2012. I wish there was a Department of Details to fix those little snags in the user experience.

jjice 1 hour ago||

Updated a bit ago to give Siri AI a go for some basic stuff I've been wanting it to do with personal context. It had some false positives in there, but it's notably better now, pretty fast, and handled context well. It allows you to see where it got the context from, which is great considering that doesn't sound like a very Apple thing to do.

Agingcoder 1 hour ago||

I don’t want a new screen time experience , I just want it to work. Much to my surprise, it’s extraordinarily brittle, to such an extent that it’s virtually useless.

jhickok 39 minutes ago|

As a parent of kids with iThings, the parental controls/screen time experience is incredibly bad. I have no idea why they are not interested in having it work.

alex_suzuki 6 minutes ago|||

100% agree. We had to turn it off because it was too frustrating for everyone involve. Now we’re at “trust, but verify” where “verify” is looking at Screen Time stats at the end of each week.

My only plausible explanation is that no one who works at Apple has kids.

samename 13 minutes ago|||

The more time kids spend on the device, the more revenue Apple generates. They don’t have any incentive for it to really work.

chronogamous 50 minutes ago||

Still on iPadOS 18.7.8 on a 9th generation iPad out of fear for performance degradation of ProCreate using an Apple Pencil on iPadOS 26. Considering the size of this update, I fear iPadOS 27 might equally wreck my workflow.

LUmBULtERA 1 hour ago||

Anyone else accidentally upgrade to 26.7 first?

xena 1 hour ago|

I did that too! The update servers are hammered as is tradition.

LUmBULtERA 50 minutes ago||

Things are or were labeled wrong... I clicked a button for "upgrade to iOS 27" but then follow up dialogue is talking about upgrading to 26.7. When supposedly I'm already running 26.7. It's very weird.

clueless 1 minute ago||

same, I saw the exact same weird transition from 27 -> 26.7... def seems like a bug

int32_64 1 hour ago||

26GB for an update is pretty steep considering their base macs are still on 256GB SSDs.

drbscl 1 hour ago||

I wish they allowed iCloud subscribers with older hardware to use cloud-only Siri AI.

I imagine they wouldn't shift as much hardware that way though.

standeven 1 hour ago|

Same. Siri has been so bad for so long, and this announcement gave me a brief glimmer of hope that it would finally get better. However, every phone in my family is a 15 or older, and there is no support for our newer HomePod either. Boooooo Apple, booooo.

drbscl 58 minutes ago||

Yeah, the 15 owners got hosed badly by it, especially since they were marketing it as the "AI iPhone" when it launched.

Personally, new Siri is the only reason to upgrade from 13 Pro, and it's just not worth the money to bother.

ForceBru 1 hour ago||

So, is it better (faster, stronger, etc) than iOS 18? Everyone says iOS 26 was not good at all and iOS 27 is much better, but it seems like it's fairly simple to make something that's better than iOS 26. A more interesting question is whether it's better than iOS 18? Does anyone have any experience switching from iOS 18 to, say, some beta of iOS 27?

GeekyBear 3 minutes ago||

It improves performance on the oldest iOS device that is supported.

etatester 6 minutes ago||

"Better" is subjective. I've been using iOS 27 beta and other than a few bugs it hasn't been that bad. I only had some minor downgrades in Safari UI, but those are minor and personal.

One thing I hated was a downgrade in Photos app on iOS 26 though, that hasn't improved in 27. Unfortunately it seems I was the only one loving Photos on iOS 18.

I did jump from macOS 18 to macOS 27 beta though and Safari's UI is abhorrent.

maaand 1 hour ago||

Did they remove the rounded corners mess?

stevenhubertron 1 hour ago|

Not entirely but its ALOT better then it was.

ksec 1 hour ago|

People who are still on Chrome as main browser should seriously try Safari 27. Compatibility greatly improved, super speedy.

Although for some reason the AI organise tab option is not showing up on me.

tensor 19 minutes ago||

Still waiting for them to allow me to use any search provider I want (e.g. Kagi).

dewey 1 hour ago|||

I wish they would improve the extension support in Safari. I'm on Safari full time but I always dread the moment I have to install an extension. If the extension even exists (Firefox / Chrome is easy, so developers always do that and they don't have to pay Apple a fee) download some app, then click some button to open Safari settings, then enable the extension there, then give it permissions in the Safari menu bar. Horrible UX.

GeekyBear 40 minutes ago|||

> I wish they would improve the extension support in Safari.

They added the ability to vibe code your own custom extensions in this version.

doublepg23 52 minutes ago||||

On Safari I use

- Wipr (Ad Blocker)

- 1Password (Password Manager)

- Dark Mode HN (HN dark mode hack.)

Not really sure what else I need tbh

elektor 7 minutes ago|||

Just a heads up, you can have dark mode on every website on iOS Safari with Dark Reader: https://darkreader.org/

dewey 42 minutes ago|||

I use 1Password, RSS Button (To highlight if the page has a feed, so I can subscribe with my own Miniflux instance), 1Blocker (Ad blocking), Tampermonkey for loading userscripts on some websites, Readdeck extension to easily send something to my "read later" pile. It's not a lot of them, but every time I want to test a new one I dread it.

petesergeant 1 hour ago|||

Feels like the perfect thing to vibe-code based on existing FF/Chrome extensions? Decent agent should make pretty light work of it.

dewey 56 minutes ago||

That gives you the extension, but the workflow within macOS for users is still very user hostile. Problem with extensions might be that the training data isn't that great as there's not that many open source Safari extensions.

doublepg23 53 minutes ago|||

When I switched to macOS in '22 I went to Safari from Firefox and I don't think I've run into a single compatibility issue.

jmuguy 53 minutes ago||

Does uBlock Origin (or something equivalent) work in Safari?

fady0 29 minutes ago|||

There’s an official Safari version [1], but it’s more like a toy compared to Firefox.

[1]https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ublock-origin-lite/id674534269...

jhickok 38 minutes ago|||

The standard answer is Wipr but nothing is as good as uBlock Origin imo. It's passable enough that I daily drive Safari now.

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