Instagram has launched a new feature called ‘Reorder Grid’. It lets users move any post to any position on their profile to make it easier to highlight important content, showcase favorite posts or refresh the overall look of their page.

To use the feature, users can go to their profile, tap and hold a post and select Reorder Grid’. They can then drag and drop posts into their preferred positions. Changes are saved automatically and are immediately visible to profile visitors.

The update gives creators, businesses and regular users more control over how their profiles appear without changing the original posting dates of their content.

SOURCE

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Right now, the feature is live in the iOS 27 Developer Beta. If you are enrolled, here is how to turn it on.

How to Enable the Baybayin Keyboard on iOS 27

Install the iOS 27 Developer Beta on your iPhone

Open Settings
Go to General
Tap Keyboard
Tap Keyboards
Tap Add New Keyboard
Scroll to Filipino (Tagalog)
Select the Baybayin script layout
Tap Done

What Is Baybayin?

Baybayin is the indigenous pre-colonial script of the Philippines. It was widely used before the Spanish colonial period gradually replaced it with the Latin alphabet, which eventually became the foundation of the modern Filipino writing system.

For most Filipinos, the script is unfamiliar in daily use. But there has been a steady cultural revival push, and its inclusion in iOS 27 piqued Filipinos on Reddit, where some users questioned its practical usability for everyday typing.

It is a fair point. Baybayin is an abugida, meaning consonants carry an inherent vowel. Typing Filipino words requires a different logic compared to a standard QWERTY layout. There is a learning curve.

But here is where it gets interesting. iOS 27 is not just adding Baybayin for the Philippines.

Apple also included keyboard support for Afrikaans, Basque, Galician, Guarani, Luxembourgish, Xhosa, and Zulu, suggesting this is part of a broader push to bring indigenous and regional scripts into the native keyboard system.

iOS 27 itself is a major update, bringing a refreshed Liquid Glass design system, apps that launch 30% faster, AirDrop transfers that are 80% faster, and performance improvements for older iPhones. The Baybayin keyboard is one of the smaller but culturally notable additions buried in a long feature list.

The developer beta is available now to registered Apple Developer accounts. A public beta is expected to follow. The stable release of iOS 27 typically drops alongside the new iPhone lineup in September.

Will you give the Baybayin keyboard a try, or is it more of a novelty feature for you? Drop your thoughts in the comments.

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The Radeon RX 9070 GRE is a new graphics card designed for 1440p gaming with support for ray tracing and AI-powered features.

It features 48 Compute Units, 3,072 Stream Processors and boost speeds of up to 2,790MHz. It comes with 12GB of GDDR6 memory along with 48MB of Infinity Cache.

According to AMD, the card can deliver over 100 FPS in several modern games at 1440p Ultra settings. These include Call of Duty: Black Ops 7, Marvel’s Spider-Man 2, Ghost of Tsushima and Forza Horizon 5 with ray tracing enabled.

The RX 9070 GRE also supports AMD technologies such as FSR, Fluid Motion Frames, Anti-Lag 2 and FreeSync. It has a typical board power of 220W and requires two 8-pin power connectors.

Pricing and availability have yet to be announced.

SOURCE

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The GPD MicroPC 2 features a 7-inch LTPS touchscreen display with up to 60Hz refresh rate and a 180-degree rotating hinge.

The hinge allows it to be used like a compact tablet. It comes with 16GB of LPDDR5 RAM, a 512GB NVMe SSD, Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth 5.2 and Windows 11 Pro.

The device also offers multiple ports such as a 2.5GbE Ethernet, HDMI 2.1, two USB Type-A ports and two USB Type-C ports.

Although the newer Intel Core 3 N350 processor is not available just yet in the Philippines, there is an Intel N250 processor. It is currently available through DataBlitz for PHP 24,995.

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GPD MicroPC 2 specs:
7-inch LTPS touchscreen display @ 1920×1080 pixels, 60Hz refresh rate, 314ppi, 500 nits brightness, 10-point touch support
6th-generation Corning Gorilla Glass
Intel Core 3 N350
Intel Graphics (32 EU)
16GB LPDDR5-4800 RAM
512GB M.2 2280 PCIe 3.0 x4 NVMe SSD
Wi-Fi 6
Bluetooth 5.2
2.5GbE Ethernet (RJ45)
2x USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-A (10Gbps), 2x USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-C (10Gbps, USB PD, DisplayPort 1.4), HDMI 2.1, 3.5mm headphone/microphone combo jack
Fingerprint sensor integrated into power button
Backlit QWERTY keyboard
Precision TouchPad with dedicated buttons
Dual Hyper-Linear speakers
Built-in microphone
Windows 11 Pro 24H2 (64-bit)
27.5Wh battery, 45W USB-C PD charging
Black
171.2 × 110.8 × 23.5 mm
Approx. 490g

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The latest Nintendo Direct will air on June 9 at 10:00 PM PST. It will feature around 50 minutes of announcements followed by a 95-minute Nintendo Treehouse: Live segment with gameplay demonstrations.

Nintendo has said that the presentation will focus on titles launching in the second half of 2026. Rumors ahead of the event point to possible announcements involving The Legend of Zelda, Wario, Metroid and Pikmin.

Nintendo is also expected to share updates on previously announced games such as Star Fox, Rhythm Heaven Groove, Splatoon Raiders and Fire Emblem Shadows. There is said to also have potential surprises from third-party developers.

SOURCES: 1, 2

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Apple is putting the new Siri AI behind a waitlist, much like what they did with Apple Intelligence back in iOS 18.1. So even if you’re a developer with the beta installed, you still have to raise your hand and get in line.

Here’s how to join:

1. Open Settings
2. Go to the new Siri section
3. Tap “Join Waitlist”
4. Follow the prompts

Once you’re in, Apple will notify you when the new Siri is ready on your device. No ETA given, though.

So what’s new with Siri AI exactly?

It’s a major overhaul. Apple is turning Siri into a full-on conversational AI, closer to what ChatGPT or Gemini does.

There’s now a standalone Siri app, which you can use for back-and-forth conversations. Siri can also pull context from your messages, emails, calendar, and app usage to better understand what you need and actually act on it.

Chat history syncs across your Apple devices via iCloud, and you can set it to auto-delete after 30 days, a year, or never. Apple is also reportedly showing a new Dynamic Island animation when you invoke the new Siri.

This is a big deal for Apple, because let’s be honest, Siri has been falling behind for years now. Google Assistant, ChatGPT, and even Samsung’s Galaxy AI have been lapping it in everyday usefulness. With iOS 27, Apple is clearly trying to close that gap.

Whether it actually delivers, we’ll have to wait and see. Literally.

iOS 27 is currently in developer beta. Public beta is expected to follow in the coming weeks, with a full release likely in September 2026.

Check also:
Apple Rebuilds Siri From Scratch and Calls It Siri AI
Apple Built Its New AI Foundation Models With Google
Image Playground, Photo Spacial Reframe and New Editing Tools in iOS 27
Apple Puts a Siri Camera Mode on iPhone, Visual Intelligence Across All Platforms
Safari Gets AI Tab Organization, Notify Me, and Custom Extensions in iOS 27
Apple Intelligence Comes to Messages, Mail, Calendar, Phone App
watchOS 27 and visionOS 27 Get Siri AI and New Interfaces
Apple Overhauls Child Safety with New Parental Controls in iOS 27
iOS 27 Performance Upgrades and still supports iPhone 11
iOS 27 Fixes Liquid Glass and Brings Design Refinements
macOS Golden Gate Is Apple’s New Desktop OS

Source: 9to5Mac, MacRumors

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The presentation covered three main areas: platform refinements (performance, design, usability), trust and safety (a major expansion of child safety tools), and Apple Intelligence (the next generation, built around a completely rebuilt Siri). Here is the full breakdown.

macOS Golden Gate

Craig Federighi delivered his usual bit about Apple’s marketing team going rogue. This time, they piled into a microbus and handed him a cryptic note about “floating on a span of gold over infinite seas.” When they finally returned, the name was confirmed: the next version of macOS is called macOS Golden Gate, named after the famous strait near San Francisco.

READ ALSO: macOS Golden Gate Is Apple’s New Desktop OS

Platform Improvements: Sweating the Details

Apple’s Stacy (VP, Software Engineering) and Shabam (VP, Human Interface) walked through what the company is calling a year of “sweating the details.” The focus is on going deeper with polish, speed, and reliability rather than piling on new features.

Liquid Glass Gets Tuned

Liquid Glass, the glass-inspired design language Apple introduced in iOS 26, is getting real refinements in iOS 27 based on user and developer feedback.

Opacity slider in Settings: Users can now dial Liquid Glass anywhere from ultra-clear to fully tinted, personalizing the look system-wide. Developers who already adopted Liquid Glass get this for free in their apps.

Improved readability: Apple retuned the diffusion so Liquid Glass better obscures complex content behind it, adding more depth and separation without losing legibility.

macOS-specific fixes: A more uniform toolbar across apps keeps text labels and headings legible. Sidebars now expand to the edges of windows with colored icons returning to help distinguish apps. All windows get a tighter, consistent corner radius.

Redesigned app icons: Additional layers of Liquid Glass are integrated directly into each icon, making them sharper and more defined on the dock and home screen.

READ ALSO: iOS 27 Fixes Liquid Glass and Brings Design Refinements

Performance Gains

App launch speed up to 30% faster on iPhone and iPad. Apple preloads key app data so apps are ready before you tap.

New photos appear up to 70% faster in the Photos library.

AirDrop transfers up to 80% faster.

iPad file transfers to external drives up to 5x faster, on par with Finder on Mac.

CPU scheduler optimized for newer iPhones and brought back to iPhone 11 and later. iOS 27 runs on the same devices as iOS 26 and includes real responsiveness improvements on older hardware.

Smarter Wi-Fi to cellular transitions: iPhone is now better at knowing when to stick with Wi-Fi versus switch to cellular. No more manually toggling off a random coffee shop network.

Large file sends in Messages no longer block conversations. A new send indicator shows per-message delivery status.

Rebuilt search index for Spotlight, Photos, and Mail across iOS, iPadOS, and macOS. More stable, more comprehensive, faster at indexing new content, with improved ranking in Mail’s top hits.

READ ALSO: iOS 27 Performance Upgrades and still supports iPhone 11

New Features Across Apps

iCloud Shared Albums: Android and Windows users can now join shared albums and contribute photos. Albums also now support full-resolution sharing. No more compression.

Health app: Cycle tracking now supports perimenopause and menopause with notifications when patterns suggest perimenopause, symptom logging, and educational content.

AirPods: Custom EQ lets you fine-tune your listening profile.

Apple Vision Pro: Panoramas you shoot can now be turned into spatial scenes with depth and realism, or used as your environment.

Maps Flyover: Rebuilt with aerial imagery and vision intelligence models. Sharper architectural detail, individual tree shapes, light reflecting off glass. Cities look dramatically better.

Trust and Safety: Major Child Safety Expansion

Apple dedicated a substantial portion of the keynote to child safety, introducing what it calls its biggest expansion of parental controls to date. The centerpiece is the Child Account. Apple is pushing this as the critical first step every family should take, because it automatically enables age-appropriate safeguards across the system: blocked adult websites, age-gated media, restricted App Store access.

What’s New for Parents

Content control:

A new setup assistant lets parents choose exactly which apps kids start with, either an “essentials only” set or a fully custom selection.

Ask to Browse extends the “Ask to Buy” system to the web. Kids must request permission before viewing a new website. Parents review and approve right in Messages. Available on iPhone, iPad, and Mac via Safari. On by default for accounts under 13.

Who kids can talk to:

Parents can start with family only, then expand. Permission is required before kids add new phone numbers. Communication Safety is now expanded to gore and violent content. It already blocked nudity and now also intervenes on violent images and videos in Messages and FaceTime.

When kids have access:

Time Allowances: A new front-and-center section in Screen Time with expert-backed daily allowance recommendations for entertainment, games, and social media, developed with the American Academy of Pediatrics. Parents can adjust all of it.

Schedules: Parents can set which apps are available at different times of day, school hours versus weekends versus evenings.

Screen Time is redesigned for easier at-a-glance management and quicker adjustments.

READ ALSO: Apple Overhauls Child Safety with New Parental Controls in iOS 27

Developer responsibility:

Apple is also pushing app developers to implement child-appropriate experiences. Full API and resource access is available for content filtering, nudity and violence detection, contact approval, and a privacy-preserving Declared Age Range API.

Apple is also launching a new child safety website with guidance and FAQs for parents to get started.

Apple Intelligence: Next Generation

Craig introduced the next generation of Apple Intelligence with a clear philosophy: “AI must be centered around you and your needs.” The new architecture has three pillars: personal context understanding, app actions, and on-screen awareness, all built privacy-first with on-device processing and Private Cloud Compute.

The Google Partnership

Here is a headline many were not expecting. Apple collaborated with Google to build the new Apple Foundation Models, leveraging the technologies behind Google’s Gemini family. Together, they created the next generation of models adapted to run on-device and on Apple’s Private Cloud Compute servers. This is a significant shift. Apple’s AI is now co-developed with Google’s model expertise.

The result is a multimodal system with image understanding and generation (photorealistic, on Private Cloud Compute), speech understanding for more expressive Siri voices and better dictation, text and image input across all system capabilities, and a second more powerful on-device model for the most capable Apple Silicon devices.

Siri AI: A Complete Rebuild

Apple is calling it Siri AI, a completely rebuilt version of Siri powered by Apple Intelligence. Same activation methods (Hey Siri, side button), but what it can do is dramatically different.

What Siri AI Can Now Do

Personal context: Finds things from your photos, messages, emails, and notes just by asking. “Show me photos from Shasta last weekend. Add just the ones with Bryce, Madison, and Quinn to the family album.”

World knowledge: Draws on up-to-date information from the web via Private Cloud Compute. “What’s the schedule for opening weekend of the World Cup?” Answered inline with current info.

App actions: Drafts emails, sets reminders, adds calendar events, shares photos, all from a single Siri request.

On-screen awareness: Siri can identify what’s on your screen and take action. Looking at a photo from the Santa Cruz coast? Ask Siri where it is, then get directions with a stop at a contact’s address found in an old message.

READ ALSO: Apple Built Its New AI Foundation Models With Google

Richer Conversations

Siri AI supports extended back-and-forth. The demo showed planning a World Cup watch party: asking for iconic dishes from Brazil and Morocco, pulling a dessert a family member mentioned in Messages, assembling a themed menu, then composing and sending a group message, all in one Siri session without touching any other app.

On iOS, swipe down from the Dynamic Island to start a typed conversation or use Hey Siri or the side button for voice. On macOS, Siri is now integrated into Spotlight. Type a query in Spotlight and it recognizes when you want Siri, then launches a full conversation panel. Control-click on any file, image, or text for a contextual Siri menu. The demo showed comparing multiple shed quotes across three files: “Compare these and help me pick one. Factor in an electrical problem my son mentioned.” Siri parsed all three PDFs and surfaced the right recommendation.

Dedicated Siri App

A new Siri app is available across iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, and Vision Pro. It stores your full conversation history, privately synced via iCloud. Start a conversation on iPhone, continue on iPad, finish on Mac.

New Voice Experience

For the most capable Apple Silicon devices, Siri gets a new voice engine that is significantly more expressive and customizable. You can adjust expressivity and pace. The dictation system also gets a major accuracy upgrade: better spelling, punctuation, and capitalization, available system-wide including in third-party apps.

READ ALSO: Apple Rebuilds Siri From Scratch and Calls It Siri AI

Platform-Specific Siri

watchOS: Siri AI tailored for the wrist, accessible via voice or the new Apple Watch app grid.

visionOS: A 3D animated Siri orb you can place anywhere in your space. No Hey Siri required. Just look at the orb and start talking.

CarPlay and AirPods: Full Siri AI support.

Availability Caveats

Siri AI launches in English first, with more languages coming quickly.

Not available in the EU on iOS and iPadOS at launch. Apple is working on a path forward that preserves privacy and security.

Not available in China while Apple works through regulatory requirements.

Launching in beta later this year for customers. Developer preview is available today.

Visual Intelligence

Siri’s new visual intelligence is integrated across platforms.

iPhone Camera app: A new Siri mode lets you point the camera at anything and tap the shutter for real-time information. Point at a plate of food for nutritional insights. Point at a restaurant bill, select what you ordered, and split the total via Apple Cash. Images and conversations save to the Siri app.

macOS: A keyboard shortcut activates visual intelligence. Select any area on screen and type a question to Siri. Useful for selecting a schedule image and having Siri add all events to Calendar at once.

iPad: Visual intelligence is integrated into the screenshot flow.

visionOS: Ask about physical objects around you just by looking at them. The demo showed asking if a backpack fits airline carry-on requirements, then whether hiking boots would fit inside it. Siri used personal context from Mail to answer both.

READ ALSO: Apple Puts a Siri Camera Mode on iPhone, Visual Intelligence Across All Platforms

Writing Tools

Siri now powers writing assistance virtually anywhere you type.

Generate from scratch: Describe a document in natural language and Siri produces a draft.

Style matching: In Mail and Messages, Siri drafts in your usual tone for a specific recipient. If you normally send your manager bullet points, that is what you will get.

Writing feedback: Select text, ask Siri how it sounds, get specific suggestions.

Automatic proofreading system-wide, no extra step required, works in most third-party apps.

Safari

Tab organization: Apple Intelligence automatically groups tabs into topics like shopping, travel, and work, and keeps adding related tabs as you browse. Close an entire topic or save it as a tab group.

Notify Me: Tell Safari what change to watch on a page in natural language (“alert me when camp signups open”), then close the tab. Safari monitors in the background and notifies you.

Describe and Extension: Describe a custom browser behavior in natural language and Safari creates an extension for it. Example: add a toolbar button to save and rate recipes.

Passwords integration: Passwords uses Apple Intelligence and Safari to navigate websites and update weak or compromised passwords automatically with just a tap. Safari handles the sign-in flow. Your data stays on-device throughout.

Messages, Mail, Calendar, Phone

Messages: One-tap suggestions based on conversation context to create reminders, notes, and find photos. Smart photo search recognizes keywords, locations, and people mentioned in conversation.

Mail: More capable contextual suggestions. Quick-action to third-party apps based on email content.

Calendar: Add events by typing a natural language description. Calendar identifies contacts, locations, and titles automatically. Easier recurring event editing.

Phone: Call Context. When you call a business, the Phone app proactively surfaces relevant information from your apps, like finding a flight confirmation code in Mail before the airline picks up. Runs entirely on-device.

READ ALSO: Apple Intelligence Comes to Messages, Mail, Calendar, Phone App

Home App

Accessory notifications grouped into single continuous activities rather than a flood of individual pings.

AI-generated camera clip descriptions: The Home app can describe what happened in recorded clips from compatible cameras.

Semantic camera search: Search clips by what was captured, like “package delivery.” The Home app surfaces the most important clips at the top automatically.

4K resolution for recordings on supported cameras.

READ ALSO: watchOS 27 and visionOS 27 Get Siri AI and New Interfaces

Shortcuts

Shortcuts gets an AI-powered creation flow. Describe what you want in natural language and Shortcuts assembles all the steps automatically. Example: “When I’m leaving work, message Pedro I’m on my way with my ETA.” Shortcuts builds an automation that triggers on location, calculates ETA via Maps, and sends via Messages. Refine it by describing changes and Shortcuts makes the adjustment.

READ ALSO: Safari Gets AI Tab Organization, Notify Me, and Custom Extensions in iOS 27

Image Playground

Completely rebuilt with more powerful image models on Private Cloud Compute.

Photorealistic image generation in any style, including photo-realistic. Transform your own photos into any described style. Touch-based editing: circle an object to select it, then move, resize, or modify it via natural language. (“Add candles to the cake.”) Extent tool to expand images, adding breathing room around subjects or space to straighten a crooked horizon.

Dimension control: choose portrait, landscape, or custom aspect ratios for your output. Generates contact posters and lock screen wallpapers from your library and favorite locations. New Image Playground API for developers.

Photos: Spatial Reframing

The biggest new Photos feature is Spatial Reframing. Using Apple’s on-device spatial models combined with Private Cloud Compute generative models, it lets you reposition the camera perspective after the photo was taken, as if you physically moved the camera left, right, up, or down in the original scene. Touch and drag to shift the viewpoint.

Generative models fill in what would have been outside the original frame. Works on almost any photo in your library, including old shots and photos from other cameras.

The Photos app also upgrades in two more areas.

Cleanup tool: Significantly better quality and more realistic in-fill, even in complex scenes.

Extend tool: Add space around a subject or fill in cropped edges, using the same infrastructure as Spatial Reframing.

READ ALSO: Image Playground, Photo Spacial Reframe and New Editing Tools in iOS 27

Developer Tools

Foundation Models framework: Images now supported as input alongside text, custom skills, and server-side model support, all through the same Swift API.

Core AI framework: A new framework for running any third-party ML model locally on Apple Silicon across all platforms.

Xcode updates: The coding assistant can now localize entire apps, interact with simulated devices, and support custom skills. You can choose your model and agent including Gemini, and connect to tools like Figma and GitHub.

Device Hub: A new unified interface in Xcode that brings every device, simulated and physical, into one view. Supports simulated multi-touch, one-click appearance changes, and dynamic resizing.

Usage Limits

Apple noted that some Apple Intelligence features, including image generation, have daily usage limits because they rely on powerful server models. Increased access is available with most iCloud+ subscription plans, which also include Apple Intelligence support for compatible home cameras.

Availability

iOS 27: iPhone 11 and later (same models as iOS 26)
iPadOS 27: All iPads supported on iPadOS 26
macOS Golden Gate: All Macs supported on macOS Sequoia
watchOS 27: Apple Watch series supported on watchOS 26
visionOS 27: Apple Vision Pro
tvOS 27: Apple TV

Developer betas are available now as of June 8, 2026. Public beta arrives next month. General availability is this fall.

WWDC 2026 continues through June 12 with technical sessions, live developer forums, and labs at Apple Park.

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Image Playground in iOS 27 is a significant step up from what shipped in iOS 26. Apple rebuilt the experience around more powerful image models running on Private Cloud Compute.

Photorealistic image generation is now possible.

You can generate any style you want, including photos that look real. You can also transform your own photos into any described style. All image processing runs on Private Cloud Compute and your photos are never stored or shared, even with Apple.

The editing experience got more hands-on. Circle over any object in an image to select it, then move it, resize it, or change it by describing what you want. The demo showed selecting a cake and adding candles to it with a single description.

Output options expanded. You can now choose the aspect ratio before generating: portrait for flyers, landscape for websites, square for social media.

Image Playground now generates contact posters and lock screen wallpapers too, using your photos, favorite locations, and activities as inspiration.

Developers get access via the new Image Playground API.

Image Playground features in iOS 27:
Photorealistic image generation in any style
Transform your own photos into any described style
Touch-based object selection: circle to select
Move, resize, or modify selected objects via natural language description
Choose output dimensions: portrait, landscape, custom
Generates contact posters and lock screen wallpapers
Suggestions inspired by your photos, locations, and activities
Image Playground API available for third-party developers
All processing on Private Cloud Compute
Photos never stored or shared, including with Apple

Photos Gets Spatial Reframing and Major Editing Upgrades in iOS 27

Apple’s Photos app in iOS 27 gets three new editing tools powered by Apple Intelligence, and one of them is hard to believe until you see it.

Spatial Reframing lets you change the camera angle of a photo after the fact. Touch and drag to shift the perspective as if you physically moved the camera left, right, up, or down in the original scene. On-device spatial models handle the perspective calculation in real time. Generative models on Private Cloud Compute fill in the areas that were originally outside the frame. The result is a reframed photo that looks consistent with the original scene. Works on almost any photo in your library, including old shots and photos taken with other cameras.

The Cleanup tool also gets a noticeable upgrade with better quality and more realistic fill-in, even in complex backgrounds. Removing a stranger from a group shot or a sign from behind someone’s head looks significantly better than before.

The Extend tool lets you add space around a subject or fill in the edges of a cropped photo. It is built on the same infrastructure as Spatial Reframing.

All three features show up in a new dedicated editing section inside Photos that groups every Apple Intelligence tool together.

Photos editing features in iOS 27:
Spatial Reframing: shift camera perspective on any photo post-capture
Touch and drag to reposition viewpoint in real time
On-device spatial models for real-time preview
Private Cloud Compute generative models fill in extended areas
Consistent fill: only generates content where perspective shifted
Works on almost any photo, including old photos and non-Apple cameras
Cleanup tool: upgraded with more realistic fill-in for complex scenes
Extend tool: add space around subjects or fill in cropped edges
All three tools in a new dedicated Apple Intelligence editing section in Photos

Check also:
Apple Rebuilds Siri From Scratch and Calls It Siri AI
Apple Built Its New AI Foundation Models With Google
Image Playground, Photo Spacial Reframe and New Editing Tools in iOS 27
Apple Puts a Siri Camera Mode on iPhone, Visual Intelligence Across All Platforms
Safari Gets AI Tab Organization, Notify Me, and Custom Extensions in iOS 27
Apple Intelligence Comes to Messages, Mail, Calendar, Phone App
watchOS 27 and visionOS 27 Get Siri AI and New Interfaces
Apple Overhauls Child Safety with New Parental Controls in iOS 27
iOS 27 Performance Upgrades and still supports iPhone 11
iOS 27 Fixes Liquid Glass and Brings Design Refinements
macOS Golden Gate Is Apple’s New Desktop OS

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You can point at a plate of food and get nutritional information. You can point at a restaurant bill, tap what you ordered, and split the tab via Apple Cash. You can pull down for rich details and ask follow-up questions. Conversations and images save to the Siri app automatically.

On Mac, Apple added a keyboard shortcut to activate Visual Intelligence. You select any area of your screen and type a question to Siri. It can also suggest actions based on what it sees. If you select a schedule image, it offers to add all events to Calendar in one go.

On iPad, Visual Intelligence is integrated directly into the screenshot experience. On Vision Pro, you can ask about physical objects around you just by looking at them. The demo showed asking if a backpack fits airline carry-on requirements, then whether hiking boots fit inside it. Siri pulled the flight details from Mail to give a personalized answer.

All image processing for deep understanding runs on Private Cloud Compute to protect privacy.

Visual Intelligence features:
Siri Camera Mode in iPhone Camera app
Tap shutter button to let Siri see and respond
Pull down for details and follow-up questions
Point at food for nutritional insights
Point at bill, select items, split via Apple Cash
Conversations and images saved to Siri app
macOS: dedicated keyboard shortcut for Visual Intelligence
macOS: select any area on screen, ask Siri about it
macOS: suggests Calendar event additions from schedules on screen
iPad: Visual Intelligence integrated into screenshot experience
visionOS: ask about objects just by looking at them
visionOS: uses personal context for personalized answers
Powered by Apple Foundation Models on Private Cloud Compute

Siri Now Writes With You and Proofreads Everywhere in iOS 27

Siri also can now generate documents from scratch, match your writing tone, give feedback, and proofread automatically across the entire system.

Ask Siri to write a draft and it generates one from your natural language description. No templates, no forms. Just describe what you need and it starts writing. In Mail and Messages, Siri adapts to how you usually communicate with a specific person. If you normally send your manager quick bullet points, that is what you get when you draft with Siri.

Feedback works on selected text. Highlight what you have written, ask Siri how it sounds, and you get specific suggestions. It does not just flag grammar, it tells you what to improve.

Automatic proofreading is the biggest daily driver here. It works system-wide with no extra steps, including in most third-party apps. No need to copy-paste into a separate tool.

Writing Tools features in iOS 27:
Generate document drafts from natural language descriptions
Style matching: adapts to how you usually write with a specific contact
Writing feedback: select text, ask Siri for improvement suggestions
Automatic proofreading: works system-wide without any extra steps
Proofreading available in most third-party apps
Available wherever you type on iPhone, iPad, and Mac

Check also:
Apple Rebuilds Siri From Scratch and Calls It Siri AI
Apple Built Its New AI Foundation Models With Google
Image Playground, Photo Spacial Reframe and New Editing Tools in iOS 27
Apple Puts a Siri Camera Mode on iPhone, Visual Intelligence Across All Platforms
Safari Gets AI Tab Organization, Notify Me, and Custom Extensions in iOS 27
Apple Intelligence Comes to Messages, Mail, Calendar, Phone App
watchOS 27 and visionOS 27 Get Siri AI and New Interfaces
Apple Overhauls Child Safety with New Parental Controls in iOS 27
iOS 27 Performance Upgrades and still supports iPhone 11
iOS 27 Fixes Liquid Glass and Brings Design Refinements
macOS Golden Gate Is Apple’s New Desktop OS

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Tab organization is the headline. Safari now uses Apple Intelligence to group your open tabs by topic automatically. It reads each page, finds what is related, and brings them together. Shopping tabs, travel tabs, work tabs, all grouped without you doing anything. New related tabs get added to the right group as you browse. When you are done, close an entire group or save it as a tab group.

Notify Me is genuinely useful. You tell Safari what you are waiting for on a page in plain language. Camp signups opening. A product coming back in stock.

A price dropping. Safari monitors the page in the background. You get a notification when the change happens, and you can close the tab in the meantime.

Describe and Extension lets you create a custom Safari extension just by describing what you want. Add a toolbar button to save and rate recipes. Change how a page behaves for your needs. No coding, no App Store. Just describe it and Safari builds it.

The Passwords integration is the most practical feature. Passwords already flags weak and compromised passwords. Now it can automatically navigate to each website and update them for you, all at once, with a single tap. Apple calls this agentic, meaning the app takes action on the web on your behalf. Your data stays on-device throughout.

Apple also notes that Safari does not share your browsing data with anyone, not even Apple, when using AI features.

Safari iOS 27 features:
AI tab organization by topic, auto-groups as you browse
Close entire topic groups or save as tab groups
Notify Me: natural language monitoring for page changes
Background page monitoring, notification on change
Describe and Extension: custom Safari extensions from natural language
Passwords integration: auto-updates weak or compromised passwords agentically
Safari navigates websites and signs in on your behalf to fix passwords
No browsing data shared with Apple or third parties

Check also:
Apple Rebuilds Siri From Scratch and Calls It Siri AI
Apple Built Its New AI Foundation Models With Google
Image Playground, Photo Spacial Reframe and New Editing Tools in iOS 27
Apple Puts a Siri Camera Mode on iPhone, Visual Intelligence Across All Platforms
Safari Gets AI Tab Organization, Notify Me, and Custom Extensions in iOS 27
Apple Intelligence Comes to Messages, Mail, Calendar, Phone App
watchOS 27 and visionOS 27 Get Siri AI and New Interfaces
Apple Overhauls Child Safety with New Parental Controls in iOS 27
iOS 27 Performance Upgrades and still supports iPhone 11
iOS 27 Fixes Liquid Glass and Brings Design Refinements
macOS Golden Gate Is Apple’s New Desktop OS

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