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If you searched "iOS 27," you probably want one of four things: whether it's actually out, when it will be, whether your iPhone gets it, and what's different from iOS 26. This page answers all four, then goes deeper on each — with links to full guides where you need more detail than a hub page can hold.

Everything below is built from Apple's own developer releases feed for build numbers and dates, and stated as a plain, sourced projection wherever Apple hasn't confirmed something outright. Nothing here is a leak or a guess dressed up as fact.

What is iOS 27?

iOS 27 is the version of Apple's iPhone operating system that follows iOS 26. Apple announced it at WWDC on Monday, June 8, 2026, the same day it released the first developer beta. Like every iOS release, it arrived alongside sibling updates for iPad, Mac, Apple TV, Apple Watch, and Apple Vision Pro — Apple ships all of its platforms' betas on the same day, in lockstep. The iPhone and iPad builds actually share a build number this cycle (both are on 24A5430a for beta 8); the Mac, Apple TV, and Apple Watch betas carry their own separate numbering, even though they all land on the same Monday.

iOS 27 is a free update for every supported iPhone. It is not a paid upgrade, a new phone requirement, or a subscription — it installs over your existing iOS 26 the same way any annual release does, through Settings. And unlike a new iPhone purchase, there's no decision to make about whether it's "worth it": once it reaches general release, it becomes the standard update path for every supported device, the same way iOS 26 did before it.

Is iOS 27 out yet?

No — not as a finished release. What exists right now is the beta track, and it's well along: seven developer betas in, over eleven weeks since the June keynote. If your iPhone isn't enrolled in the beta, the version you're running today is iOS 26.6.1, build 23G83 — the current public release for everyone else.

The distinction matters because "in beta" and "released" mean different things in practice. A beta is a preview build that Apple is actively testing and patching, available to anyone who enrolls a device at developer.apple.com or beta.apple.com. A release is the finished, stable build that lands automatically for every supported iPhone through ordinary software update. iOS 27 is squarely in the first category today.

The iOS 27 beta timeline so far

Here's every milestone in the cycle to date, with the real build numbers from Apple's developer releases feed:

Apple doesn't publish every intermediate beta's exact date on this feed the way it does the first and most recent, but the cadence between beta 1 and beta 7 — roughly one build every one to two weeks — matches every iOS cycle since iOS 16. For the day-by-day list as new builds land, see our guide to updating to iOS 27, which we refresh with each new build.

What that cadence tells you: beta 1 in June is always the roughest build of the cycle — expect crashes, unfinished features, and heavier battery use. By the time a cycle reaches its seventh beta in late August, the software is normally close to what actually ships. Apple usually follows a handful of these mid-cycle developer betas with a Release Candidate in the first week or two of September — functionally the final build, distributed to developers a few days before everyone else gets it. Watch for that RC as the clearest signal that a release date is close.

When is iOS 27 coming out?

Apple has not announced a release date from the stage — that's simply not information Apple gives out mid-cycle. What we have instead is a strong, repeatable pattern: an early-September iPhone event, followed by the finished software a few days to about a week later. Applying that pattern to this year points to an Apple event around Wednesday, September 9, 2026, with iOS 27.0 landing around Monday, September 14, 2026.

Treat both dates as expected, not confirmed. We built a full page around the evidence and the error bars on that projection — our iOS 27 release date page covers the reasoning, the historical release table, and what could shift the date by a few days in either direction.

The reasoning holds up because it isn't one pattern — it's two independent ones lining up. Apple's September iPhone event has landed in the first two weeks of the month for over a decade, and the software release has trailed that event by roughly a week just as reliably. When both patterns have held for that long, projecting them forward for one more year is a reasonable inference, though it's still an inference rather than an Apple statement. If either the event date or the usual gap moves this year, the release date would move with it — by days, based on history, not by weeks.

Which iPhones support iOS 27?

iOS 27 runs on iPhone 11 and every model released after it, plus the iPhone SE (2nd generation) and SE (3rd generation):

• iPhone 11, 11 Pro, 11 Pro Max
• iPhone 12, 12 mini, 12 Pro, 12 Pro Max
• iPhone 13, 13 mini, 13 Pro, 13 Pro Max
• iPhone 14, 14 Plus, 14 Pro, 14 Pro Max
• iPhone 15, 15 Plus, 15 Pro, 15 Pro Max
• iPhone 16, 16 Plus, 16 Pro, 16 Pro Max
• iPhone 17, 17e, 17 Pro, 17 Pro Max
• iPhone Air
• iPhone SE (2nd generation), iPhone SE (3rd generation)

Not supported: iPhone XS, XS Max, XR, and anything older.

The three tiers within iOS 27

Supporting iOS 27 and supporting its AI features are two different lists. There are effectively three tiers of iPhone this year:

• Runs iOS 27: iPhone 11 and later, as listed above — every device gets the OS, the new Phone app tools, FaceTime Dual Capture, and the Photos and parental control updates.
• Runs Apple Intelligence: iPhone 15 Pro, 15 Pro Max, or any iPhone 16 or later. This is the cutoff for the conversational Siri, Writing Tools, and image generation features.
• Runs the most advanced on-device features: iPhone 17 Pro, 17 Pro Max, or iPhone Air only.

For the full device-by-device breakdown, including exactly where Apple Intelligence support starts and stops, see our dedicated iOS 27 supported devices page.

What's new in iOS 27

The beta has settled enough by beta 7 that the feature set is stable — this is what's actually in the software, not what was rumored before June:

Siri you can talk to like a person

Siri in iOS 27 handles back-and-forth conversation instead of one command at a time, and it can draw on personal context — your messages, calendar, and other on-device information — to carry out tasks that span multiple apps. Ask it to do something that needs three steps and it can chain them, rather than making you issue each step as a separate request. This is the feature Apple has been building toward for several cycles, and iOS 27 is the first release where the conversational back-and-forth and the cross-app task execution are both live together rather than shipping as separate, narrower capabilities.

In practice, this changes what's worth asking Siri at all. A request like "find the confirmation email for tonight's dinner reservation and text the address to my sister" needs three separate lookups and one send — the kind of chain that older Siri versions couldn't hold onto between steps. It needs the Apple Intelligence hardware tier described below, since the personal-context reasoning is the part that requires the newer chips.

Call Context in the Phone app

When you're on a call with a business, the Phone app can surface relevant information you already have on your iPhone — a flight number sitting in a Mail confirmation, for example — without you having to switch apps mid-call to dig it up. It's a narrow feature by design: it works with information already on your device, tied to the call you're currently on, rather than pulling in anything from outside your iPhone.

FaceTime Dual Capture

FaceTime can now stream your front and rear cameras at the same time, so the person on the other end sees your face and what you're looking at in the same call, instead of you having to flip the camera back and forth. It's aimed at the calls where showing something matters as much as talking — walking a family member through a repair, or showing someone a place in person — without losing the face-to-face part of the conversation.

Photos and parental controls

The Photos app picks up expanded editing tools in this cycle, building on the editing overhaul from recent iOS releases rather than replacing it outright. Parental controls are improved as well, giving families finer-grained options than iOS 26 offered — useful if you manage Screen Time or Family Sharing settings across more than one child's device.

Apple Intelligence: Writing Tools and image generation

Apple Intelligence's Writing Tools are expanded in iOS 27, and image generation now runs through a private cloud model — processing happens off-device but inside Apple's private cloud infrastructure rather than a third-party service. Apple's pitch for that architecture is that a request only leaves your iPhone when the task genuinely needs more computing power than the device has, and even then it runs inside infrastructure Apple has said is built so that not even Apple can access the data being processed. These features need the Apple Intelligence-capable hardware tier described above; the plainer Writing Tools that shipped in earlier iOS versions still work on the same devices they always did.

General performance

Beyond the named features, Apple's release notes point to general app performance improvements across the system — the kind of under-the-hood work that doesn't show up as a headline feature but affects how the whole OS feels day to day.

Curious whether any of this is worth installing before the final release? We weigh that trade-off directly in should you install iOS 27 now.

Beta now, or wait for release day?

By beta 7, the roughest bugs from beta 1 are typically long gone — this is a common point in the cycle for people to join if they want to try the new Siri or FaceTime Dual Capture without waiting another few weeks. It's still a beta, though: back up your iPhone before installing, expect the occasional odd bug, and know that a small number of apps — banking apps especially — sometimes block beta builds outright as a deliberate security measure, not a bug you can fix.

If your iPhone is the only one you have and it needs to work reliably every day, waiting for the September release remains the lower-risk choice. If you run into trouble either way, our iOS 27 problems and fixes guide covers what's actually come up in this cycle.

iOS 27 vs. iOS 28: what this year tells you about next year

This site's primary focus is iOS 28, next year's release — expected to be announced at WWDC in June 2027, with the same September-event-then-software pattern that's playing out for iOS 27 right now. There's a real link between the two: the device list iOS 27 just confirmed (iPhone 11 and up, nothing dropped) sets the floor for what iOS 28 will likely support, since Apple's cuts tend to happen one model generation at a time rather than in a single sweep. If iPhone 11 support survived this year, it's the device most likely to be on the bubble for iOS 28's cutoff next year. We track that projection, along with iOS 28's full expected timeline, on our iOS 28 release date page.

What to do right now

• Not on the beta and want to wait: do nothing. iOS 27.0 will appear in Settings → General → Software Update automatically around mid-September.
• Want to try the beta today: back up your iPhone first, then enroll for free at developer.apple.com or beta.apple.com and install through Settings — never through a third-party file.
• Not sure if your iPhone qualifies: check the supported devices list above, or the full breakdown on our iOS 27 supported devices page.
• Want a heads-up the day it ships: our beta alerts page sends a notification the moment Apple releases new builds — no email required.

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