iOS 27 Official Preview: Key Updates You Can’t Miss for iPhone

Apple's 2026 Spring Launch Event is coming soon. In addition to the new iPhone and affordable MacBook, the iOS 27 system, as the core update of Apple's ecosystem, has also attracted the attention of users around the world.

It is reported that iOS 27 will bring a number of subversive updates, focusing on interactive experience, privacy protection and AI intelligence, covering iPhone 15 and above models. It is expected to start testing in March 2026 and be officially pushed with the iPhone 18 series in September.

In terms of interactive experience, iOS 27 adds the "Dynamic Island Pro" function. Compared with the previous generation of Dynamic Island, it supports richer notification display and interactive operations.

Users can customize the display content of Dynamic Island (such as weather, schedule, music), and even quickly reply to messages and switch applications through Dynamic Island without unlocking the screen, making operations more efficient.

At the same time, the Shortcuts function is fully upgraded, supporting more flexible custom settings. Users can combine multiple operations (such as opening navigation + playing music + adjusting brightness) according to their own usage habits, triggering with one click, greatly improving daily use efficiency.

The split-screen multi-tasking function is optimized, supporting more applications to split the screen at the same time, and the split-screen ratio can be freely adjusted, making office and entertainment more convenient.

In terms of privacy protection, iOS 27 adds the "refined management of app permissions" function. Users can set app permissions more carefully (such as only allowing apps to obtain location when in use, only allowing reading part of photos), avoiding apps from excessively collecting personal information.

The data encryption function is enhanced, providing a higher level of encryption protection for users' chat records, photos, files, etc. Even if the mobile phone is lost, data leakage can be prevented.

In terms of AI intelligence, in addition to the on-device AI functions mentioned earlier, iOS 27 also adds the "AI Intelligent Organization" function, which can automatically organize mobile phone albums, notes, files, sort them by category and time, making it convenient for users to find quickly.

The AI voice assistant Apple Intelligence supports multi-round conversations and can understand more complex instructions, such as "Help me book a coffee at 3 pm tomorrow and send it to my colleagues", which can be done in one step without step-by-step operations.

In addition, iOS 27 also optimizes battery life management, camera functions and system fluency, fixes many bugs of the previous generation system, and improves the running speed of older models (such as iPhone 15, 16), allowing more users to experience the latest system functions.

For iPhone users, the update of iOS 27 will bring a more efficient, safer and smarter user experience, which is worth looking forward to.