iPadOS 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

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

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

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

A Write with Siri entry appeared on the iPad 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 — iPhone and iPad software keyboard
2. [2] Everything New in iOS 27 Beta 2 · Write with Siri; related iPadOS coverage

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

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

On specified older iPad Air, iPad mini, and iPad Pro models, the Siri waveform could animate incorrectly and Hey Siri requests could fail while Camera was open.

Recorded at Beta 3

1. [1] iOS & iPadOS 27 Beta 3 Release Notes (preserved snapshot) · Siri — Known Issues; 180751246

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

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

Apple’s iPadOS 27 plan expands parent approval and scheduling controls and sensitive-content protections; these are cumulative version features.

Recorded at Beta 4

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

Apple announced onscreen Visual Intelligence for supported iPads as a version-level capability, not a Beta 4 delta.

Recorded at Beta 4

1. [1] iPadOS 27 Preview · Visual Intelligence

Developers can work with new documented health types in the iPadOS 27 SDK; this is cumulative beta-series scope rather than a Beta 4 delta.

Recorded at Beta 4

1. [1] iOS & iPadOS 27 Release Notes · HealthKit

The version-level plan includes Liquid Glass refinements and speed improvements across core workflows; it is not a Beta 4-only claim.

Recorded at Beta 4

1. [1] iPadOS 27 Preview · Design and performance

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

The iPadOS 27 plan places supported intelligence tools across Photos, Messages, and Safari; this is cumulative version scope, not a Beta 4-only claim.

Recorded at Beta 4

1. [1] iPadOS 27 Preview · Apple Intelligence