Apple has started testing iOS 27.3. The company seeded the first developer betas of iOS 27.3 and iPadOS 27.3 on November 3, a week after iOS 27.2 reached the public, according to MacRumors. Registered developers can opt in through Settings > General > Software Update. Apple has not announced a public release date.
MacRumors describes the update as the biggest iOS 27 release since the software launched in September, and it brings back several features that Apple had previously announced but not yet shipped.
Siri and Safari. Siri AI gains new actions across apps. According to MacRumors' rundown, it can unsubscribe from mailing lists and undo a recently sent message in Mail, manage weather locations and notifications, clear Safari history and close duplicate tabs, and delete files that have not been opened for a set period. Siri's language support grows to include Traditional Chinese, Vietnamese, Turkish and Norwegian, and a developer preview lets apps add their own actions through App Intents. Safari gets an optional Vertical Tabs layout, an Adaptive Dark Mode for sites without a dark design, and a Global Privacy Control setting.
Health. The redesigned Health app returns in this beta with Insights and Longevity tabs. Longevity scores seven categories, including heart health, sleep, movement and nutrition, and a Health Age measure compares a user's metrics with their actual age.
iPhone Duo and StandBy. The beta adds Reachability to iPhone Duo, activated by swiping in from the edge of the outer display, and tweaks the outer-display keyboard layout. Some StandBy features first seen on the Duo, such as new clock faces and Calendar and Weather faces, are coming to other iPhones that run iOS 27.
China. Apple Intelligence, including Live Translation, Writing Tools, Visual Intelligence, Photos Clean Up and Genmoji, now appears in the beta for China. Siri AI is not part of that rollout. The beta also appears to add earthquake early-warning alerts developed with the China Earthquake Networks Center.
Smaller changes. Apple Music adds Selfie Sing for recording karaoke videos, Apple Fitness+ gets a four-week Gym Strength plan, Freeform gains new text styles and background colors, and the Control Center VPN toggle can switch between VPNs. Some of the Apple Watch additions in watchOS 27.3, including Live Rewind and Siri Recap, also require iOS 27.3.
As with any first beta, features may change or be removed before the final release.
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