Apple is already shaping its next big iPhone update, and early signs point to a release that leans more toward refinement than reinvention.
Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman says iOS 27 is being treated a bit like Mac OS X Snow Leopard, with Apple concentrating on quality and underlying performance rather than packing in lots of new tricks.
The aim is to make iPhones more stable, more responsive, and generally smoother to use, with only a small set of visible changes on top of that work.
There is one clear exception to this roadmap: artificial intelligence. iOS 27 is expected to push Apple’s AI features further into more of the built-in apps, building on the first wave that arrived this year.
It also says that Apple is preparing an Apple Health Plus subscription, designed to add personalised health recommendations and extra tools on top of the existing Health app. That would shift Health from being mainly a place where data sits to something that actively guides you with suggestions and plans.
The Snow Leopard style focus is not limited to the iPhone either. macOS 27 is said to follow the same approach, putting reliability and performance ahead of big interface changes or long lists of new features.
For people who use both iOS and macOS every day, that could make this cycle feel like a year where everything lines up a bit better and behaves more consistently across devices.
Apple usually shows off its major software updates at WWDC in June, and that pattern is expected to continue.
The first betas of iOS 27, macOS 27 and the related updates should arrive shortly after the conference in 2026. This gives developers and early adopters time to test and offer feedback before the public versions arrive later in the year.
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