iOS 27

We also, if we have enough time, we'll jump into a couple other things with Duo and And with, what was the other thing? I know Duo reviews are out.

Also, iOS 27.2 came out with some new features that I think might be interesting.

So depending on the time, we'll see what we can get into after that.

Also, we haven't really talked about Oura Rings that much on this show.

So it says it's up to 1.3 times faster, a faster time to first token than in the M5.

How do they do that if the...

Well, I guess iOS 27 and Mac OS 27, they announced Siri AI and Apple intelligence.

So technically they can say that LLM prompting from their own, their own models and the Google Gemini model that they, use for whatever reason, I guess they could say they took the specs off of that.

Please give us some suggestions because this ultimately would then be proposed as like a web standard rather than just being some Safari proprietary thing.

You know what? Apple app is not optimized for iPhone Duo, not optimized with iOS 27 or iOS 27.1.

I

know the Apple Store app

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Now with the iPhone Duo the rules are changing, developers need to think about app resizing, and how it looks and works on the Duo.

Apple cares about its user experience so much that from April 2027 every upload to the App Store Connect has to be built with the iOS 27 SDK, and every app built with the 27.

One SDK has to ship with Duo screenshots.

So yes, you need to start exploring Duo adaptation now, not when it's too late.

In this article I'm going to talk about the new APIs Apple provides for the Duo and all the non-obvious challenges I worked through while adapting the app for the new device model.

What Apple gives you for the Duo? First of all, there is a split in iOS SDK versions.

Everything older than iOS 27 runs in a phone-sized window.

That's why you're going to see a lot of apps at first that show up as a small iPhone version with black areas around the scene on the inner display.

It's true.

However, what has happened in the month since Apple rolled out iOS 27 and Mac OS 20, Apple OS 27 across all devices is.

is that things like instinct and muse have launched and it completely makes using like that kind of thing possible.

so obsolete that it just sets Apple so far behind again.

Sorry.

I

know, but, but like it, it definitely has gotten worse with iOS 27.

It used to filter it out way better than it, than it, than it does now.

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Dave, I want to turn to you and ask you, Apple now actively encouraging iPhone users still running iOS 26 to install iOS 27.

I don't remember, maybe I just missed it, but I don't remember a real strong encouragement in the past.

It was more a carrot, but now it sounds like it's not quite a stick, but it's definitely encouraging them to make the switch.

Right.

And that's where, so this app is what I would describe as a iOS 26 app.

Like a third party iOS.

It was designed for, it doesn't matter who built it.

It's an iOS 26 app.

It was built for iOS 26 and it works great.

If it was designed for iOS 27, it would go all the way to the edge.

That white would go to the edge.

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Today I'm going to be demoing iOS 27.

I haven't had time to explore all the new accessibility features in iOS 27, but I have tried a few of them.

There's really some great things you can do with it, and I'd like to show you that today.

Just a note, I'm using iOS 27.2 beta.

At the time of this recording, there were still quite a few bugs in iOS 27.0. One of the things I really like about iOS 27 is the new Siri AI integration.

It has the ability to access your email messages, your documents, even your calendar.

So I'll do this now.