iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27 • Hacker News Board

Re: iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27

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Post by layer8 » Mon, Sep 14, 2026, 10:35 PM UTC

metaltyphoon wrote: post #290

iAMkenough wrote: post #243

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Apple Intelligence and Siri were separate toggles before, but no more. Curious if it lets you reclaim space if you turn off Siri.

I turned it off on my iPhone and no... you don't reclaim the space

CNET says that the OS auto-reclaims the space when needed: https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/how-to-turn-...

Re: iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27

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Post by nunez » Mon, Sep 14, 2026, 10:39 PM UTC

(i(Pad)?|mac)OS 27 no longer allows Apple Intelligence to be disabled from one place like you could in iOS 26.

Anyone who is trying to reduce their AI consumption or see fewer AI features might be interested in this change.

I posted to Tell HN about it a few minutes ago here (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49704226), but TL;DR is that the only way to turn this off is to either disable each AI feature independently or apply a '.mobileconfig' profile that does it.

Re: iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27

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Post by deepspace » Mon, Sep 14, 2026, 10:41 PM UTC

devilbunny wrote: post #93

devindotcom wrote: post #50

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I personally use the swiping keyboard on ios and it seems to detect the wrong word with an almost malicious frequency. It also randomly Capitalizes things.

For some reason, the one word that it just will not let me swipe is “and”. Which is, you know, somewhat common. I get all kinds of random things instead.

Yes! It will give me Andy, ABE! abs, and's, anything but friggen "and"!

Re: iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27

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Post by layer8 » Mon, Sep 14, 2026, 10:42 PM UTC

chronogamous wrote: post #107

Still on iPadOS 18.7.8 on a 9th generation iPad out of fear for performance degradation of ProCreate using an Apple Pencil on iPadOS 26. Considering the size of this update, I fear iPadOS 27 might equally wreck my workflow.

I’d certainly wait until 27.2 or so.

Re: iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27

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Post by quasarj » Mon, Sep 14, 2026, 10:44 PM UTC

HumblyTossed wrote: post #179

sippeangelo wrote: post #86

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They have some nasty "dynamic tap zones" algorithm that dynamically resizes the hitbox for keys based on what it predicts you will type in order to reduce miss-taps. Anecdotally, it has just steadily been getting worse with every update. I swear I can be pressing the center of a key and it will select the next one over and immediately autocorrect to a completely different word than what I typed. I had the pleasure of…

In addition to this, there is a delay in the suggested word such that when you see the options above the keyboard, decide you see the word you want, stop typing and move to select it, it changes right as you land your finger.

OMG you're giving me PTSD just reading about it. It happens every single time!!!

Re: iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27

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Post by layer8 » Mon, Sep 14, 2026, 10:44 PM UTC

drbscl wrote: post #13

I wish they allowed iCloud subscribers with older hardware to use cloud-only Siri AI. I imagine they wouldn't shift as much hardware that way though.

Even for iCloud subscribers with newer hardware, as the cloud version should be faster. You’d have the choice between privacy and better performance.

Re: iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27

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Post by layer8 » Mon, Sep 14, 2026, 10:45 PM UTC

Bondi_Blue wrote: post #115

Are they no longer publishing the complete feature list PDFs for each OS? E.g. https://www.apple.com/os/pdf/All_New_Features_iOS_26_Sept_20...

These are usually published a little later.

Re: iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27

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Post by quasarj » Mon, Sep 14, 2026, 10:47 PM UTC

devindotcom wrote: post #50

swinglock wrote: post #21

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How is the keyboard broken? Maybe I'm so used to whatever it is that I'm blind to it.

I personally use the swiping keyboard on ios and it seems to detect the wrong word with an almost malicious frequency. It also randomly Capitalizes things.

Sometimes I swipe the same word 5 times in a row and it gets it wrong every time, despite me being slower and more precise each time. I give up and type it by hand. Note: this is NOT the censorship issue, that's separate (where it will not allow you to swipe certain words or phrases AT ALL, no matter how hard you try. Like if you type "kill" it won't let you swipe "him" or "her" after it, though some other words work. There are many instances of this)

Re: iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27

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Post by nozzlegear » Mon, Sep 14, 2026, 10:53 PM UTC

Tepix wrote: post #40

Was just looking over the Safari 27 release notes¹, which is part of macOS 27, and noticed this: Web Driver New Features - Allow your agent to connect to a Safari browser for development and debugging via the Safari MCP server. (176038457) Related (From July 1st) Introducing the Safari MCP server for web developers https://webkit.org/blog/18136/introducing-the-safari-mcp-ser... So that's interesting. On the other han…

I've been using the Safari MCP in a "grocery agent" tool I built. It takes the weekly menu my wife puts together, turns it into a shopping list, and then uses Safari to add things to the shopping cart on Walmart's website. It's pretty solid, I like it more than the Chrome dev protocol I had been using before Safari.

Re: iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27

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Post by microflash » Mon, Sep 14, 2026, 10:53 PM UTC

My biggest complaint is the regressions on font size both on macOS and iOS. Some of the copy which was of comfortably readable size is now microscopic (for example, the organization and job title on a contact card in the Contacts app). Similarly, on macOS, when the sidebar icons are set to small, the labels also become terribly tiny.