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.

Macworld 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.

But many of the new features Apple mentioned require support for Apple Intelligence, which remains confined to newer devices with at least 8GB of RAM. Apple Intelligence still requires an iPhone 15 Pro or newer, an iPhone 16 or newer, or an iPhone Air. On the iPad, support requires an iPad Air or iPad Pro with an M1 or newer.

Shortcuts gets an AI upgrade, letting you describe the workflow you want in a prompt.

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.

Apple announced iOS 27 at WWDC 2026, and the message this year is quite simple: this one is faster, more polished, and comes loaded with new Apple Intelligence features, including the new Siri AI. It isn’t the most visually dramatic update, but it addresses some of the most frustrating aspects of using iOS.

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 ...

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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.

USA TODAY's Jennifer Jolly was at the keynote event where Apple unveiled an expansion of its virtual assistant.