iOS 27: The easiest beta to forget about - 9to5Mac

We’ve had iOS 27 in our hands for about two months now. Of course, it’s a beta – and the public release won’t be hitting for another 4-6 weeks. That said, despite the fact that I’ve been running a beta on my phone for the past two months, I can’t say I’ve really thought much about it. It just… works. Of course, I still rush to the software update screen every two weeks (give or take) to install the latest beta. That’s the only part of the beta experience that’s stayed consistent with the 27 cycle. Other than that, I can’t say any of the normal things that one would about a beta. Battery drain has been basically nonexistent, my phone isn’t overheating, I’m not experiencing tons of weird lag, and my phone isn’t randomly crashing. Running iOS 27 comes with all of the benefits of new software, like Siri AI, AirPods EQ, new Wallet passes in Safari, better Photos AI editing features, and more – without any of the drawbacks that usually come with running cutting-edge beta software. It’s honestly a bit of a marvelous feat. It probably helps that iOS 26 wasn’t that stable in the first place. Particularly iOS 26.5, which for some reason (at least personally) caused my phone to start having resprings (soft crashes where your screen will go black and a loading indicator shows) quite frequently. This is all anecdotal of course, but you could ask almost anyone and hear some story of how iOS 26 wasn’t that great for them. All that said, iOS 27 delivers in terms of its speed boosts, bug fixes, stability, and quality of life improvements. You might not feel it at first because of the heavy indexing in the background for Siri AI – though Apple recently released iOS 26.6, which will begin indexing for Siri AI in the background so you don’t have to when you update to iOS 27. After that, it’ll be smooth sailing. Liked by 15 people While I mostly agree that the pb of iOS27 (and WatchOS27) has been pretty stable and excellent with respect to battery drain compared to previous iOS betas, I have to disagree with respect to Siri. So far, in both of the released iOS/WatchOS 27 beta releases, Siri has been pretty much worthless. Typing questions in the Siri app is fine, but using voice commands is nothing short of frustrating and a solid waste of time. This is of course purely based on my experience alone.