iPadOS 27: Everything we know about the new features landing on your iPad

iPadOS 27 arrives this fall with an all-new Siri AI, smarter photo tools, plain-language Shortcuts, and a tidier Safari. Here’s everything we know so far about what’s landing on your iPad.

iOS 27 is packed. Here’s a list of the small updates you may have missed

iOS 27 has plenty of headline features, but smaller updates to Mail, iCloud Shared Albums, accessibility, Home, Maps, and network switching may be the ones people notice most.

Safari is finally fixing its extensions problem. Unlike Chrome, Apple will let you create your own

Safari is getting an AI-powered extension builder that lets users describe the browser tool they want. It could help Apple fix one of Safari’s oldest weaknesses without chasing Chrome’s giant add-on library.

iOS 27 offers the clearest sign that a foldable iPhone is right around the corner

Apple’s SwiftUI changes and new iOS 27 framework references suggest the company may be getting apps ready for an iPhone that works across two different displays.

Apple rebuilt Siri on Google’s AI and Nvidia’s chips, then spent WWDC explaining why that doesn’t break its privacy promise
Apple rebuilt Siri on Google’s AI and Nvidia’s chips, then spent WWDC explaining why that doesn’t break its privacy promise

Apple’s most important AI announcement at WWDC 2026 was not a feature. It was an architecture. The rebuilt Siri runs on a custom 1.2-trillion-parameter model built on Google’s Gemini technology, hosted on Google Cloud servers powered by Nvidia Blackwel…

iOS 27 is full of references to a folding iPhone. Apple didn’t mention it once at WWDC.
iOS 27 is full of references to a folding iPhone. Apple didn’t mention it once at WWDC.

Apple did not announce a foldable iPhone at WWDC 2026. But the first developer beta of iOS 27 is full of evidence that one is coming, and soon. Software researcher M1Astra discovered code strings inside the beta that reference folding hardware directly…

Smartphones are to blame for declining birth rates, as studies highlight the iPhone’s role

Two new studies argue smartphone adoption, beginning with the iPhone’s 2007 launch, contributed significantly to falling birth rates in the US and globally.

watchOS 27 drops support for plenty of Apple Watch models and it’s quite frustrating

Apple confirmed at WWDC 2026 tyhat watchOS 27 will not support the Apple Watch Series 8, first-generation Apple Watch Ultra, or the Apple Watch SE 2. The update, due this fall, marks the largest single-cycle drop in Apple Watch software support.

Why Apple’s slow-and-steady AI bet is starting to look pretty smart

Can Apple’s new AI glow up put to bed accusations that it’s losing an all-important industry race?

Excited for macOS Golden Gate? Check out all the supported Mac models

Every Intel Mac is now officially locked out of macOS 27 Golden Gate, and even some Apple silicon Macs won’t get the full Siri AI experience. Here’s the full compatibility list.