Apple today unveiled watchOS 27, featuring a redesigned dynamic app grid, new gesture controls, and numerous usability and battery improvements. The new dynamic app grid reveals and rearranges five apps based on context and usage. Users can simply tap the icon at the bottom center to access the rest of their apps. A new tap gesture allows users to select a widget in the Smart Stack by tapping their index finger and thumb together once, allowing interaction even when the other hand is occupied. Apple is also expanding Smart Stack Suggestions to display more contextually relevant widgets, including birthday reminders…
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Apple today announced new slideshow features in the Photos app, allowing users to play any set of photos and videos as a slideshow. There are options to set slide duration, transition style, and music. iOS 27 also allows users to save any slideshow directly as a video in their Photos library for easy playback later. Additional new features include the ability to save individual video frames as photos, more flexible album organization tools, emoji reactions in shared albums, a view of recent shared album activity, and access to full resolution photos and videos in shared albums. Apple is also introducing…
watchOS 27 contains a series of improvements to fitness and sleep tracking, including new Workout Buddy insights, improved indoor running tracking, and more. Workout Buddy benefits from new data-driven motivation features, providing progress updates on workout pace, distance and duration based on the user’s fitness history. Apple also allows Workout Buddy to work without an iPhone nearby, allowing users to stay motivated during workouts without needing a phone in their pocket or hand. Workout Buddy also expands to Spanish, allowing Spanish-speaking users to receive personalized fitness motivation in their preferred language. Indoor running and walking distance tracking also becomes more…
The strategy of “disappearing into the bushes like Homer Simpson” is a bold choice. Habanero Pixel/Shutterstock Only a day after discovering a dormant piece of code that appeared to be a facial recognition algorithm in a companion app for its smart glasses, Meta released an update that removed that code, Wired reported. The publication first discovered the suspicious code, internally dubbed Name Tag in Meta, while reviewing the code of a Meta AI application that manages some key functionality of the glasses. In other words, the same app needed to pair the Meta smart glasses to…
Apple today announced that iOS 27 will expand the Health app’s cycle tracking functionality with dedicated support for perimenopause and menopause, including notifications, symptom logging, and educational resources. The update will allow Cycle Tracking to detect when a user’s recorded cycle patterns suggest perimenopause and display a notification accordingly. Users will also be able to log associated symptoms directly in the Health app and access educational resources designed to provide guidance and support throughout the transition. New support for perimenopause and menopause in iOS 27 uses long-term cycle data to detect a hormonal transition that may begin a decade or…
Apple has announced a major overhaul of Image Playground, introducing a new generative model capable of creating photorealistic images as well as expanded editing and sharing capabilities. The updated app is powered by a new generative model that runs on Private Cloud Compute, allowing it to produce high-quality images in virtually any style, including photorealistic output for the first time. All generated images will automatically carry a hidden SynthID watermark to identify them as AI-generated. Image Playground now supports photo-based editing in addition to creative. Users can outline changes they want to make to an existing image or use touch…
During the WWDC 2026 keynote, Apple detailed changes to iOS 27, such as a new version of Siri with a dedicated Siri app and Apple Intelligence features across multiple apps, but there are dozens of smaller but still important changes that Apple didn’t have time to make. Apple shared an image summarizing some of the bug fixes and optimizations made in iOS 27, iPadOS 27 and macOS 27, and there are some interesting changes. Two phone numbers Apple says you’ll be able to switch between two iPhone devices with the same phone number, which likely means you can set up…
The iOS 27 Camera app has a new “Siri” mode available in addition to video, photo, and other camera modes. You can access Siri mode by swiping over it at the bottom of the Camera app in the iOS 27 developer beta. Siri mode has visual intelligence built in, so you can take a photo of something and ask Siri about it. Siri can answer questions about anything you take a photo of, identify plants, animals, landmarks and more. Visual intelligence expands to new categories in iOS 27 and can help you determine the calories in a plate of food…
The Wallet app in iOS 27 has a new “Create Pass” option designed to let you add passes for tickets, memberships, and more using visual intelligence. If you have a ticket for an event and there isn’t already a digital version available in the Wallet app, you can create one using the physical pass. By default, the Wallet app uses Visual Intelligence to scan a pass and add it, but there is also a “Create a pass manually” option. Pass models include Standard, Membership, and Event. Each type includes relevant information such as name, location or admission type, as well…
Tim Cook today closed out what is expected to be his final speech as Apple CEO with some moving closing remarks. Concluding a pre-recorded video message, Cook reflected on his tenure with the company. “Some of the highlights of my tenure as CEO have been events like this, sharing powerful new tools with all of you,” he said, adding that what developers are creating with Apple platforms has been “a constant reminder that imagination has no limits.” One of the biggest highlights of my tenure as CEO has been events like this, sharing powerful new tools with all of you…