iOS 27.0

Selected management, enrollment, app-installation, and software-update processes began requiring TLS 1.2 or later with App Transport Security-compatible ciphers and certificates.

Recorded at Beta 1

1. [1] iOS & iPadOS 27 Beta Release Notes (preserved snapshot) · Network Security — New Features; 176055825

iOS and iPadOS apps built with the 27 SDK were required to declare a launch screen before App Store submission support began.

Recorded at Beta 1

1. [1] iOS & iPadOS 27 Beta Release Notes (preserved snapshot) · UIKit — New Features; 168247372

iPhone and iPad gained PlayStation Access controller support, including custom input profiles saved on the Apple device.

Recorded at Beta 1

1. [1] iOS & iPadOS 27 Beta Release Notes (preserved snapshot) · Game Controller — New Features; 168071382

HealthKit added read/write sample types for menopausal state and bleeding after menopause under Reproductive Health.

Recorded at Beta 1

1. [1] iOS & iPadOS 27 Beta Release Notes (preserved snapshot) · HealthKit — New Features; 178532053

Apps linked with the latest SDK had to adopt the scene-based lifecycle or they would fail to launch.

Recorded at Beta 1

1. [1] iOS & iPadOS 27 Beta Release Notes (preserved snapshot) · UIKit — Deprecations; 141837548

New frameworks let developers add media-sharing protocols as system extensions and gave media apps a common API for using them.

Recorded at Beta 1

1. [1] iOS & iPadOS 27 Beta Release Notes (preserved snapshot) · Media Sharing Extensions — New Features; 168722808

Apple deprecated On Demand Resources and NSBundleResourceRequest in favor of Background Assets.

Recorded at Beta 1

1. [1] iOS & iPadOS 27 Beta Release Notes (preserved snapshot) · On Demand Resources — Deprecations; 170066290

An optional on-device Dictation model became available for developer testing to improve recognition accuracy.

Recorded at Beta 1

1. [1] iOS & iPadOS 27 Beta Release Notes (preserved snapshot) · Dictation — New Features; 178444388

Background Assets could deliver language-specific asset packs according to the user’s preferred languages, reducing unnecessary app storage.

Recorded at Beta 1

1. [1] iOS & iPadOS 27 Beta Release Notes (preserved snapshot) · Background Assets — New Features; 163944365

MetricKit added Swift-first asynchronous reports, state-aware diagnostics, memory-termination diagnostics, and application-level Metal frame-rate metrics.

Recorded at Beta 1

1. [1] iOS & iPadOS 27 Beta Release Notes (preserved snapshot) · MetricKit — New Features; 96078210, 159889985, 159890067, 159890165, 164439529

When enabled, Apple Intelligence for Home could process HomeKit Secure Video recordings on-device and through Private Cloud Compute for descriptions and search.

Recorded at Beta 1

1. [1] iOS & iPadOS 27 Beta Release Notes (preserved snapshot) · HomeKit — New Features; 178858470

Messages added inline replies for RCS conversations and displayed reactions on shared images and video more directly.

Recorded at Beta 2

1. [1] Here's what's new with iOS 27 beta 2 · iOS 27 beta 2 — RCS
2. [2] Everything New in iOS 27 Beta 2 · RCS

Core Bluetooth and Nearby Interaction began returning Channel Sounding ranging results.

Recorded at Beta 2

1. [1] iOS & iPadOS 27 Beta 2 Release Notes (preserved snapshot) · Core Bluetooth and Nearby Interaction — Known Issues to Resolved Issues; 178333845 and 178073051

Core AI improved large-model loading and process-level memory attribution on the Neural Engine while restricting background access.

Recorded at Beta 2

1. [1] iOS & iPadOS 27 Beta 2 Release Notes (preserved snapshot) · Core AI — New Features; 174796039

Apple fixed Metal sampling that could incorrectly clamp edge-addressed texture results to zero.

Recorded at Beta 2

1. [1] iOS & iPadOS 27 Beta 2 Release Notes (preserved snapshot) · Metal — Known Issues to Resolved Issues; 172520325 status transition

Apple fixed an enum Generable warning, transcript-truncation runtime errors, and Profile onPrompt callbacks that could be skipped.

Recorded at Beta 2

1. [1] iOS & iPadOS 27 Beta 2 Release Notes (preserved snapshot) · Foundation Models — Known Issues to Resolved Issues; 177899620, 177901494, 177902488

Configured Screen Time restrictions could fail to apply to child accounts.

Recorded at Beta 2

1. [1] iOS & iPadOS 27 Beta 2 Release Notes (preserved snapshot) · Screen Time — Known Issues; 175437403

The Home app added a control for remotely starting software updates on a supported Apple TV.

Recorded at Beta 2

1. [1] Everything New in iOS 27 Beta 2 · Apple TV
2. [2] Here's what's new with iOS 27 beta 2 · iOS 27 beta 2 — Home app

One publication reported that Beta 2 corrected Home accessories that became unresponsive after installing the initial iOS 27 and tvOS 27 betas.

Recorded at Beta 2

1. [1] Everything New in iOS 27 Beta 2 · HomeKit Accessories

A Write with Siri entry appeared above the software keyboard, making the tool reachable without first selecting text.

Recorded at Beta 2

1. [1] Here's what's new with iOS 27 beta 2 · iOS 27 beta 2 — What’s new
2. [2] Everything New in iOS 27 Beta 2 · Write with Siri

Core AI models could execute while Metal API Validation was enabled.

Recorded at Beta 2

1. [1] iOS & iPadOS 27 Beta 2 Release Notes (preserved snapshot) · Core AI — Known Issues to Resolved Issues; 177991751 status transition

The Notes create and update schemas accepted an AttributedString name parameter.

Recorded at Beta 2

1. [1] iOS & iPadOS 27 Beta 2 Release Notes (preserved snapshot) · App Intents — New Features; 173431080

SwiftData no longer deadlocked a Query when a background actor saved its ModelContext while scheduling ModelActor tasks.

Recorded at Beta 2

1. [1] iOS & iPadOS 27 Beta 2 Release Notes (preserved snapshot) · SwiftData — Known Issues to Resolved Issues; 178113288 status transition

SwiftUI introduced a combined Document protocol for read/write documents and deprecated FileDocument in favor of ReadableDocument or Document.

Recorded at Beta 2

1. [1] iOS & iPadOS 27 Beta 2 Release Notes (preserved snapshot) · SwiftUI — New Features and Deprecations; 177458781 and 178776840

HealthKit added support for heart-rate zones and cycling-power zones.

Recorded at Beta 2

1. [1] iOS & iPadOS 27 Beta 2 Release Notes (preserved snapshot) · HealthKit — New Features; 135746152

The calendar.deleteEvents App Intents schema was renamed to calendar.deleteEvent.

Recorded at Beta 2

1. [1] iOS & iPadOS 27 Beta 2 Release Notes (preserved snapshot) · App Intents — Deprecations; 176751155

Apps with the required entitlement could use the TrustInsights framework to request network-backed trust results.

Recorded at Beta 2

1. [1] iOS & iPadOS 27 Beta 2 Release Notes (preserved snapshot) · Trust Insights — New Features; 154949256

iOS 27 Beta 2 restored support for installing AirPods Max 2 beta firmware after Beta 1 could not perform the update.

Recorded at Beta 2

1. [1] iOS & iPadOS 27 Beta 2 Release Notes (preserved snapshot) · AirPods Max 2 — Known Issues; Beta 1 limitation and Beta 2 support; 178280323

Low-latency frame interpolation accepted arbitrary source dimensions up to 1080p.

Recorded at Beta 2

1. [1] iOS & iPadOS 27 Beta 2 Release Notes (preserved snapshot) · VideoToolbox — New Features; 179040806

Deleting files from Recently Deleted could fail or take substantially longer than expected.

Recorded at Beta 3

1. [1] iOS & iPadOS 27 Beta 3 Release Notes (preserved snapshot) · Files — Known Issues; 179787658

Critical Alerts could be enabled automatically for an app when the app requested notification permission.

Recorded at Beta 3

1. [1] iOS & iPadOS 27 Beta 3 Release Notes (preserved snapshot) · Notifications — Known Issues; 179179362

SwiftUI’s data-item and error-object alert and confirmation-dialog modifiers became available to projects targeting earlier OS releases.

Recorded at Beta 3

1. [1] iOS & iPadOS 27 Beta 3 Release Notes (preserved snapshot) · SwiftUI — New Features; 179388848

Passing an existential LanguageModel to the model modifier no longer caused a compiler error.

Recorded at Beta 3

1. [1] iOS & iPadOS 27 Beta 3 Release Notes (preserved snapshot) · Foundation Models — Known Issues to Resolved Issues; 178545978 status transition

StoreKit Testing stopped immediately marking upgraded-subscription transactions as expired.

Recorded at Beta 3

1. [1] iOS & iPadOS 27 Beta 3 Release Notes (preserved snapshot) · StoreKit Testing in Xcode — Known Issues to Resolved Issues; 178441109 status transition

Reminders received a revised icon using hollow, colored list bullets.

Recorded at Beta 3

1. [1] Here's what's new with iOS 27 beta 3 · iOS 27 beta 3 — Reminders
2. [2] Everything New in iOS 27 Beta 3 · Reminders

Previously inactive Siri voice pace and expressivity controls became usable on the supported iPhone models reported for Beta 3.

Recorded at Beta 3

1. [1] Here's what's new with iOS 27 beta 3 · iOS 27 beta 3 — What’s new
2. [2] Everything New in iOS 27 Beta 3 · Siri Voice

Control Center began showing cellular signal and network type while the iPhone remained connected to Wi-Fi.

Recorded at Beta 3

1. [1] Everything New in iOS 27 Beta 3 · Control Center
2. [2] Here's what's new with iOS 27 beta 3 · iOS 27 beta 3 — Control Center

HealthKit’s updated permission flow let users grant an app limited history or full history.

Recorded at Beta 3

1. [1] iOS & iPadOS 27 Beta 3 Release Notes (preserved snapshot) · HealthKit — New Features; 172310874

Shortcuts added a choice between beginning with natural-language description and opening the manual action editor.

Recorded at Beta 3

1. [1] Here's what's new with iOS 27 beta 3 · iOS 27 beta 3 — Shortcuts
2. [2] Everything New in iOS 27 Beta 3 · Shortcuts

The Shortcuts Use Model action could fail for some output types when configured for on-device execution.

Recorded at Beta 3

1. [1] iOS & iPadOS 27 Beta 3 Release Notes (preserved snapshot) · Shortcuts — Known Issues; 181071784

Core AI documented a dedicated entitlement for Neural Engine inference during continued-processing background tasks.

Recorded at Beta 3

1. [1] iOS & iPadOS 27 Beta 3 Release Notes (preserved snapshot) · Core AI — Known Issues to New Features; 179282606 status transition

Swift System fixed source conflicts between custom unqualified stat calls and the new FilePath or FileDescriptor stat methods.

Recorded at Beta 3

1. [1] iOS & iPadOS 27 Beta 3 Release Notes (preserved snapshot) · System — Known Issues to Resolved Issues; 177911316 status transition

UIKit added UINavigationItem.navigationBarMinimization as the replacement control for navigation-bar minimization behavior.

Recorded at Beta 3

1. [1] iOS & iPadOS 27 Beta 3 Release Notes (preserved snapshot) · UIKit — New Features; 177953926

SwiftUI corrected document reader/writer concurrency and main-actor isolation for document factories and URLDocumentConfiguration.

Recorded at Beta 3

1. [1] iOS & iPadOS 27 Beta 3 Release Notes (preserved snapshot) · SwiftUI — Resolved Issues; 180302015, 180302065, 180302075

The iPhone status bar could appear blurred while an app was in the foreground.

Recorded at Beta 3

1. [1] iOS & iPadOS 27 Beta 3 Release Notes (preserved snapshot) · Status Bar — Known Issues; 179470940

Two independent publications reported Beta 4 controls for fetching upcoming episodes and removing watched downloads; Apple’s developer notes did not enumerate the interface change.

Recorded at Beta 4

1. [1] Here’s What’s New with iOS 27 Beta 4 · TV app downloads
2. [2] iOS 27 Beta 4: Everything New · TV app downloads

Two independent publications reported a Photos fill-display preference in Beta 4; Apple’s developer notes did not enumerate the interface change.

Recorded at Beta 4

1. [1] Here’s What’s New with iOS 27 Beta 4 · Photos setting
2. [2] iOS 27 Beta 4: Everything New · Photos setting

This is a version-level announced capability, not a Beta 4 delta; Apple says the next Siri experience is due later in 2026 and subject to availability requirements.

Recorded at Beta 4

1. [1] iOS 27 Preview · Apple Intelligence
2. [2] Apple unveils next generation of Apple Intelligence, Siri AI, and more · Siri AI and availability

The version-level release plan includes interface refinements and performance work across apps, media, transfer, search, and networking; it is not a Beta 4-only claim.

Recorded at Beta 4

1. [1] iOS & iPadOS 27 Release Notes · Cumulative beta notes
2. [2] iOS 27 Preview · Design and performance

This version-level plan covers spatial photo reframing and supported extension and cleanup tools; it is not identified as first appearing in Beta 4.

Recorded at Beta 4

1. [1] iOS 27 Preview · Photos

Apple’s iOS 27 plan expands parent approval and scheduling controls and sensitive-content protections; these are cumulative version features, not Beta 4 deltas.

Recorded at Beta 4

1. [1] iOS 27 Preview · Family and child safety