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Apple confirmed at its fall iPhone event that iOS 27 and iPadOS 27 will roll out on September 14, bringing the public debut of Siri AI, its revamped assistant built with training help from Google's Gemini models. The update also refreshes the Liquid Glass design, adds child safety tools, and promises broad performance gains.
Apple announced at its fall iPhone event that the overhauled Siri AI, currently available in English through iOS 27 and related betas, will add support for French, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese and Spanish next month. The English version rolls out publicly on September 14, while broader language support follows in October. Apple also confirmed daily limits on cloud-based AI prompts, with iCloud+ subscribers getting higher usage caps.
Apple introduced the iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max, featuring a 48MP Fusion Main camera with variable aperture, a smaller Dynamic Island, and the new A20 Pro chip paired with a next-generation vapor chamber for sustained performance. The Pro Max also gets Apple's largest-ever battery life increase, while both models run iOS 27 with Apple Intelligence and a revamped Siri. The phones come in four finishes, including a new burgundy option, with pre-orders starting September 12 and sales beginning September 18.
Apple unveiled the iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max at its fall event, keeping last year's design but adding a 48-megapixel variable-aperture camera, manual pro camera controls, and new photographic styles with texture and grain options. The phones run on Apple's A20 Pro chip with a redesigned vapor chamber, offer longer battery life, and introduce a contextual Siri AI launching in English with more languages arriving in October.
Apple has rebuilt core iOS 27 controls and app layouts to suit the iPhone Duo's foldable form factor, borrowing multitasking concepts from iPadOS. The update repositions status icons and navigation elements, introduces a dual-homescreen layout when unfolded, and adds a standby mode that turns the device into a smart display with fullscreen widgets. The Duo will also be the first iPhone to support Apple Pencil, usable on either screen.
Apple confirmed iOS 27 will roll out on Monday, September 14th, headlined by a beta version of its long-delayed AI-powered Siri overhaul. The beta will initially support English only, with French, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, and Spanish arriving in October. The update also brings a Liquid Glass opacity slider, redesigned app icons, extra-large widgets, a minimized Lock Screen clock option, and separate volume controls for ringtones, alarms, and alerts.
Apple is holding its annual flagship product event on September 9, 2026, where it is expected to reveal the iPhone 18 series and detail iOS 27. This marks the first major keynote led by John Ternus, who has taken over as Apple's CEO.
Apple's iOS 27 update overhauls the Home app with Apple Intelligence features, letting it summarize alerts from doorbells and smoke detectors instead of flooding the lock screen with notifications. Cameras gain improved AI-based detection of faces and animals, can stitch together footage of a person moving through multiple rooms, and now record in 4K with AI-generated video descriptions and searchable events. The update also lets users update all Apple TVs at once from the Home app and improves overall app reliability.
Apple CarPlay includes a dedicated Settings menu where drivers can adjust the interface to their preference, including switching between light, dark, or automatic display modes based on ambient light. Users can also change the background wallpaper from a set of Apple-designed options, swap between dark and clear 'Liquid Glass' icon packs, and increase text size through the Accessibility menu.
Apple's iOS 27 update expands the Clean Up feature in the Photos app with a new Auto control that lets users choose between two processing modes. A Fast mode uses a smaller AI model for quick edits like removing background clutter, while a High Quality mode uses more advanced AI for complex scenes, such as removing multiple people from a photo, at the cost of speed and battery life.
Apple released iOS 26.6.2 for iPhone and the matching iPadOS 26.6.2 for iPad, a minor patch addressing a bug that blocked downloading software updates over cellular data. The update is available now through Settings' Software Update screen, arriving just days before Apple's expected release of iOS 27.
Ahead of Apple's expected unveiling of Apple Watch Ultra 4 and Series 12, leaker pdfu found references in watchOS 27 code pointing to a new Readiness app placed near Workout on the home screen, expanded strength-training logging with sets, reps, weight and equipment data, a new optical sensor system, and possible 128GB of storage tied to a new chip. The same leaker previously surfaced details on HomePod surround sound and iOS 27 camera features.