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.

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.

Explore the top 10 new features in iOS 27, including liquid glass icons, an enhanced Siri, and 80 percent faster AirDrop transfers.

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.

Installing the iOS 27 beta on your primary iPhone can be exciting—until you encounter critical app crashes, rapid battery drain, or overheating issues. If you’re ready to leave the beta cycle and return to the stable iOS 26,

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.

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