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204: Revisiting iOS 27 Ahead of iPhone 18 Pro!
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- The MacRumors Show
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- Jul 31, 2026
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- 1952
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Summary
After over a month of testing iOS 27 , on this week's episode of The MacRumors Show , we circle back to the beta and talk through our experiences with Siri AI, Liquid Glass refinements, and more. iOS 27 is expected to launch this fall, bringing sweeping performance work across the system. Apple has cited more than 80 speed and efficiency improvements , with app launches up to 30 percent faster and AirDrop transfers up to 80 percent faster than on iOS 26 . Animations, keyboard responsiveness, Home Screen page swapping, and App Library loading have all been sped up, and Apple says the improvements extend even to older iPhones like the iPhone 11. The centerpiece of iOS 27 is Siri AI , a substantially overhauled version of the assistant positioned as a rival to chatbots like Claude and ChatGPT. Siri AI can hold back-and-forth conversations, draw on personal context from Mail, Messages, Photos , and Files, and see what's on screen to answer follow-up questions. A new standalone Siri app houses ongoing conversations, while a "Search or Ask" interface, accessed via the Dynamic Island , has effectively replaced Spotlight as the default way to search the device and launch apps. Liquid Glass, the translucent design language introduced in iOS 26, has also been reworked. iOS 27 adds a system-wide transparency slider in place of the binary "Clear" and "Tinted" toggle from iOS 26.1, letting users dial the effect anywhere between fully opaque and completely clear. Apple also improved how the material diffuses busy content behind it , addressing readability complaints that dogged the original rollout, and refreshed first-party app icons with additional Liquid Glass layering. Elsewhere, Apple has leaned into contextual, on-device intelligence. For example, Call Context , a ne…