I've used iOS 26 for a year — these are the 9 features I can't live without

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.

iOS 27 and iPadOS 27 don’t drop support for any iPhones—and just a few iPads

The iOS 27 update will run on all iPhones that can run iOS 26, all the way back to the iPhone 11 and second-generation iPhone SE. The iPadOS 27 update is slightly less generous, dropping support for the 3rd-generation iPad Air,

How to download the iOS 27 developer beta right now (and which models support it)

Apple's WWDC 2026 was full of updates for the daily iPhone user experience - here's how you can try iOS 27 early for free.
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iOS 27’s Siri AI is actually going to change how I use my iPhone

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. It’s a lot of refinements, AI, and optimizations to make your iPhone feel faster.

The First 10 Things You Need to Do After Installing iOS 27

Explore the top 10 new features in iOS 27, including liquid glass icons, an enhanced Siri, and 80 percent faster AirDrop transfers.
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Returning to iOS 18 after using iOS 26 might surprise you

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 will let you build workflows using AI in its new Shortcuts app

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

iOS 18 eye tracking: How to use your eyes to navigate iPhone like Apple Vision Pro

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.