My most-anticipated iOS 27 feature isn’t a new feature at all: If the rumors are true, Apple will use its next major iPhone update as an opportunity to eliminate bugs and improve stability in iOS. The company has already started work on this front with iOS 27 — with iOS 26.4, Apple fixed some major issues with the iPhone’s keyboard that users have complained about since the company initially rolled out iOS 26, and launched new settings to reduce the liquid glass look in response to some users’ negative feedback.
But while I expect iOS 27 to be mostly a stability update, I know it won’t be completely absent of any new features. In fact, rumors suggest that Apple will finally unveil its big AI Siri overhaul with this update, which has been a tall The time is coming. But apart from AI Siri, Apple has some other Apple Intelligence features in the works. It’s possible that iOS 27 could be a stability update and Apple’s biggest investment in AI to date.
Apple’s coding hints at new Apple Intelligence features
As reported by MacRumors, backend code shows that Apple is working on four new Apple Intelligence features for iOS 27. Nicholas Alvarez made the discovery, and MacRumors says he was able to verify the findings.
The first two of these features relate to Visual Intelligence, Apple’s AI-powered tool for exploring the world around you (or the contents of your iPhone’s display). Based on the backend code, it looks like Apple is working on a feature that lets you scan the nutrition label on a food item to learn more about it. MacRumors speculates that the feature could work with the Health app — perhaps to log a new meal and include all of its nutritional stats.
In addition to this nutrition scanner, Visual Intelligence may be able to add phone numbers and addresses in print to your Contacts app. This can be especially useful when taking someone’s business card: instead of holding the card and entering the details by hand, you can simply scan the card with your iPhone, and iOS can add their details to a new entry in Contacts.
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Apple Intelligence may also soon come with the ability to create digital passes for the Wallet app based on physical items. The idea is, you use your iPhone’s camera to scan a concert ticket or rewards card, and iOS automatically generates a pass to store in Wallet. A similar feature exists on Google Wallet on Android.
Finally, Safari may also be getting a new AI feature: When you create a tab group, iOS can automatically name it for you, based on the tab’s contents. Maybe if you collect a bunch of tabs of different recipes, iOS will name your tab group “Dinner Ideas,” or if you collect a collection of places you want to visit on your trip to New York, iOS will call the group “NYC Vacation Plans.”
While MacRumors has confirmed that these features are mentioned in the code, there is no guarantee that these features will come to iOS 27 or will be exactly as described here. We won’t know what iOS 27 actually looks like until Apple takes the stage for WWDC in June.
