iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27

Posted by throw0101d 2 hours ago

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

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teekert 1 hour ago|

Hmm, got the liquid glass slider, put it all the way to the right, but still lost a lot of contrast in my notifications...

microflash 8 minutes ago|

Yeah, I did the same but found the experience worse. Currently I've set it at 75% where it is tolerable.

drbscl 2 hours 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 1 hour 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.

rwz 1 hour ago||

I've just installed macOS 27 on my personal laptop and I'm losing my mind. My OrbStack app is now permanently stuck in Dock showing as "Running in Background"

There appears to be no way to keep it from the Dock without actually killing it or disallowing the "Running in Background" permission for it.

This is the stupidest forced opt-in feature I've ever seen.

lexoj 1 hour ago||

My iPad 2021 10.2" was flawless but some weeks ago it was updated to iOS26 by mistake and it became so slow on basic stuff (like showing the keyboard). Made me terrified of doing any upgrades

maaand 2 hours ago||

Did they remove the rounded corners mess?

stevenhubertron 1 hour ago|

Not entirely but its ALOT better then it was.

ksec 2 hours 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 1 hour 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 1 hour 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 1 hour 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 56 minutes ago|||

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

dewey 1 hour 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 1 hour 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 1 hour 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 1 hour ago||

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

fady0 1 hour 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 1 hour 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.

chronogamous 1 hour 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.

minimaxir 2 hours ago||

Safari does in fact feel snappier.

dewey 2 hours ago||

I was surprised to see that macOS is 28GB. Is that all the local models that come with it?

jasonvorhe 1 hour ago|

macOS 27 ade my M2 MBA feel like new. Tahoe just felt a lot less responsive most of the time.

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