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The MacRumors Show: iOS 27.3 Looks Like a Huge Update

Apple's first 27.3 betas bring expanded Siri AI actions, a redesigned Health app, and new Fitness+ features, alongside conversation summaries on the Apple Watch. This week's episode of The MacRumors Show takes a closer look at the updates.


‌Siri‌ AI gains additional actions across Apple's apps, including unsubscribing from mailing lists, organizing files, and managing Safari tabs. In Weather, ‌Siri‌ can add saved locations and toggle severe weather or next-hour precipitation notifications. The additions extend the assistant's usefulness for everyday tasks, although the full range of supported requests can still be difficult to discover.

A new developer preview also enables more flexible third-party integrations. Developers can supply custom actions and skills that help ‌Siri‌ coordinate multiple steps, improving its handling of more complicated requests. App Store submissions for these integrations are scheduled to open in the spring.

Safari adds vertical tabs and Adaptive Dark Mode, allowing websites without their own dark appearance to adopt one automatically. The iPhone Duo also gains horizontal Reachability and a revised keyboard, making its wider outer display easier to operate with one hand.

Apple Fitness+ gains Gym Strength, which creates personalized four-week plans based on available equipment and workout preferences. Short videos from Fitness+ trainers demonstrate proper form, extending the service beyond workouts that require following an entire video session. The initial beta's equipment selection and scheduling options nevertheless leave room for improvement, particularly for users whose routines vary from week to week.

The redesigned Health app returns with Insights and Longevity sections, turning collected measurements into more accessible guidance and longer-term health assessments. iPhone Duo-style StandBy mode displays bring more customizable clocks, Calendar views, and Weather information to additional iPhones. Apple Music also gains enhanced transitions, concert recommendations, and Selfie Sing karaoke videos.

On the Apple Watch, Live Rewind and Siri Recap introduce new ways to recover and summarize spoken information. Live Rewind provides a transcription of the preceding 15 seconds, while ‌Siri‌ Recap creates detailed conversation summaries that can be useful for meeting notes. Time- and location-based scheduling provides more control over when ‌Siri‌ Recap operates.

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Top Rated Comments

4 days ago at 05:31 pm
27GB for an iOS update from 27.2 to 27.3 on my iPhone Duo is ridiculous. Hell the MacOS version is around 19.34GB. How did we get to such huge OS updates especially when I don't use any AI / Siri features or functions? Seems like bloatware.
Score: 5 Votes (Like | Disagree)
4 days ago at 05:04 pm
Can we PLEASE stop drewling about the "new Siri INTELLIGENCE"??!!
Example. Siri put on the ceiling light. 'one moment', 'one more moment. the volume isn't right"
So try again. Siri put on the ceiling light. " you don't have internet'. Checking, internet all over the place. So AGAIN, Siri put on the ceiling light. ' you don't have a ceiling in your home ".....So you stand up, walk and press the button. THERE is the light and ceiling!
Last try, Siri put OFF the ceiling light. ' playing music from Johnny Cash for you '.......
Simpel right? Automations : Have 3 Eve floodlights camera's. "When detected movement, put on the floodlight. After 2 minutes put of the light. The lights go on and never off anymore. Day and night, lights on.
So in my opinion, there is dumb, followed by dumber and dumbest. And 3 weeks later followed by Siri,
Reported it al 4 time's NO answer and NO solution.
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Bazza1 Avatar
5 days ago at 09:04 am
Not sure I'm interested if it doesn't reinstate the on/off switch to Apple Intelligence. The rest are "Squirrel!" features to justify including AI in the first place.
If I could download and install iOS 17, I would.
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vmiyoshi Avatar
5 days ago at 08:57 am
iOS27 introduces bugs (I mean this isn’t much different from previous releases of years past), it’s just annoying that even in iOS27.3 I don’t see any evidence that Apple is trying to address anything.
Score: 4 Votes (Like | Disagree)
5 days ago at 08:53 am
Re-introduce double-clicking the crown to switch between applications and I'll consider upgrading to watchOS 27. Otherwise, I'm sticking with 26.x forever.
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vegetassj4 Avatar
5 days ago at 08:44 am
-3.9 years? Is that the number of years off your estimated lifespan due to the stress of trying to decide if a new upgrade is worth it?
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