iOS Today 806

Apple is handing parents unprecedented control with new child safety and parental approval features. Rosemary Orchard and Mikah Sargent break down what’s changed, how it works, and more iOS goodness during WWDC26 week!

• Apple’s WWDC keynote reveals iOS 27 and platform-wide focus on AI, privacy, and performance
• Liquid Glass transparency and appearance now user-adjustable for accessibility
• Toolbars and UI restored for improved navigation and vision support
• Performance boosts: faster photos, AirDrop, and Spotlight search highlighted
• Intelligent networking promises smarter Wi-Fi and cellular switching
• Maps overhaul: more vivid detail with AI and satellite imagery
• New child safety features: granular app, contact, and website approvals
• Siri gets personal context, deeper app integration, and smart replies
• Advanced developer APIs and app intents previewed for on-device AI features
• Generative photo editing arrives: extend, clean up, and a new Reframe tool
• System-wide suggestions and information surfacing in Mail, Messages, and calls
• Quality-of-life updates: independent alarm/ringer/music volumes, swipable now playing
• Shortcuts Corner: Natural language shortcut creation and changes to automation workflows

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Links

• Apple introduces Siri AI, a profoundly more capable and personal assistant
• Apple previews new child safety features
• How to Get iOS 27's New Siri AI: Join the Waitlist First - MacRumors
• iOS 27’s most powerful on-device AI requires iPhone 17 Pro, iPhone Air - 9to5Mac
• iOS 27 will let you swipe away the Now Playing widget from the Lock Screen - 9to5Mac