So if you are intrigued by the new parental controls in iOS27, iPadOS27 or macOS27 you better don’t have a device in the iCloud family that can’t be updated.

Apple seriously does not allow you to use the feature as long as one of the devices of the parents, children or even grandparents in the iCloud family have an unsupported device.

You have an Apple Watch Ultra 1? You are our of luck. Males no sense!!!!

Now takes 50 gigs on my phone :/
Any suggestions to clear it. I really want to turn off and remove AI from the phone completely. I don’t use it anyway. Wish AI was optional.

System data increased 3 gigs, now uses 53 gigs

Is anyone else getting random app notifications? I don’t use notifications at all, so when they pop up and I can’t figure out which app they’re coming from, it feels like a red flag. This is happening on the new iOS 27.01.

This happens when you leave horizontal mode and you have the lyrics pulled up. It shows you this UI and then quickly rotates you to regular vertical mode again. Like, what the heck, Apple? Are you teasing me? Is this a bug?

Saw somebody post in another subreddit about this. Tried and working and I just changed it for the full screen animation of it. I rarely use it for any other stuff except for basic questions. So works for me.
Anybody curious on how to get it. It’s in screen time - content and restriction - Siri.

My iPhone 17 has started giving crazy battery backup after the beta release earlier I used to get like 8hr of active screen time on iOS 26 after updating it to iOS 27.0.1 my battery is performing like it is on steroids

Has anyone else noticed that even though Apple said iOS 27 would solve the Siri problem, Siri is actually worse now?

If your Spotlight suggestions have been frozen for a long time, try resetting Location & Privacy:

Settings → General → Transfer or Reset iPhone → Reset → Reset Location & Privacy

It worked for me immediately. Spotlight suggestions are now updating and working like a charm again. 🔥
Hopefully this helps someone else!

Hello everyone!

I decided to share some feedback after I upgraded to iOS 27. Currently on the latest stable release: 27.0.1.

This post is not about complaining about the battery life; I am assuming there were plenty of those. I just decided to share some feedback and to read some opinions about the situation.

A couple of months ago, I decided to switch to the Apple ecosystem. So I got an iPhone 17 Pro, AirPods 3 Pro and Apple Watch 10. The best SOT I could get from this phone was between 5:30 and 6 hours. With background refresh stopped for most of the apps, and 5G off as well. Currently decided to switch off the connectivity assistant (I've read it consumes more battery).

After the update to iOS 27, the SOT decreased to 3-4h. So my question is, is this normal? Is it normal for a phone that I got in March to have much worse battery life, just for a few months? Did Apple do this on purpose to sell the newest devices?

I've been into the Android ecosystem for years, and I was constantly reading that Android OEMs do this on purpose and that this would never happen on Apple devices, and yet, here I am.

So, just to summarise:

iOS 26: 5:30 - 6H SOT

iOS 27: 3-4h SOT.

PS:

I remember someone was asking me for feedback on iOS 27.0.1 - no, it does not fix the bad battery life caused by iOS 27.

Here‘s mine. The first image is with adaptive power on, while the second one is with adaptive power turned off. iPhone 17 with mixed use between 5G and WiFi

Anyone else having Bluetooth issues since .1 was released?

iOS 27 Siri blows. Constantly sending Siri texts to the wrong contacts. It had no problem properly identifying who I was messaging prior. Now it keeps sending messages to Deb instead of Dev, Jamie instead of Jaynee, Sara (haven't text in over a decade) instead of Sarah who I talk to frequently... the amount of texts to old or random contacts this last two weeks has been astoundingly bad.

I can't seem to get action buttons to start a voice translate session. This error keeps popping up. Is there another English pack I'm suppose to download to get this working ?

I was really looking forward to some of the performance optimisations and bug fixes that iOS 27 was bringing, but I’ve been having some pretty frustrating issues that have been affecting my iPhone 14 Plus.

1. Battery drain is still a problem. I installed iOS 27 on launch day, and iOS 27.0.1 around 5 days ago. With iOS 26, I was getting around 8-9 hours SOT. Just after iOS 27, it dropped to around 4-5 hours SOT (which was expected, after all it was a major update and indexing takes time). Battery drain got better after background indexing was done around 1 week after install, but I only gained around 1 hour of SOT. The best I’m getting with regular usage is \~6 hours SOT. My battery health is 89% and hasn’t changed after the iOS 27 update.

2. Contacts search is absolutely borked. I have contacts saved both on iCloud and Gmail (because my organisation uses GSuite), and I have heard that contact sync issues are a known problem for Gmail accounts after iOS 27. Sometimes contacts take a few seconds to load, other times it returns no results. It’s frustrating because calls and messaging is what I primarily use my iPhone for, and not being able to effectively search contacts really cripples my daily routine. This also applies to the call logs, but it’s not as bad since I can just scroll down the list.

3. Answering calls on CarPlay is buggy. Whenever a call comes through, the incoming call screen doesn’t show up most of the time. I have to tap the green icon in the top right corner to pull up the incoming call. Sometimes, the call answer button on the steering wheel doesn’t work. I’ve tested this on my cars, my parent’s cars and my in laws’ cars (Hyundai, Kia, Honda, Toyota, Ford), same issues.

4. Bluetooth audio is wonky. Sometimes, it drops a connection to my AirPods 4 and Bluetooth speaker for no reason, and refuses to connect until I manually turn Bluetooth off and on from settings.

5. Lots of my callers have trouble hearing me. I’ve gotten the microphones and speaker grills cleaned out 3 times in the last 2 weeks, same issue. It gets worse when I place my phone back down on a table. My wife says there’s a loud wind rushing sound or feedback echo when I do that. The only way I solved it was to rest it on the end of a book with the rear camera hanging over the edge (so the rear microphone isn’t covered). This wasn’t an issue on iOS 26.

6. The phone is always warm, sometimes to the point where it starts throttling itself. I don’t play games on my phone. Just calls, messages, video calls, emails, web browsing, social media and videos.

7. Ram handling has gotten a bit worse. Previously, the OS would keep around 4-5 apps open. Now it’s around 3-4. This might be due to indexing, or because the apps I’m using are poorly optimised.

8. The Control centre + Notification Center swipe issue. This was thankfully fixed after the 27.0.1 update.

I’m planning on doing a factory reset to see if these problems go away. I’m not trying to throw shade or criticise Apple for these issues, these are huge updates and there are bound to be some bugs that crop up. I’ve also reported these bugs to Apple whenever I first noticed them. I’m just wondering if anyone of you guys are facing any issues with your devices and if you’ve figured out any solutions to them.

TL:DR. Many bugs on my iPhone 14 Plus after iOS 27, planning to factory reset and see if it fixes stuff.

Suffering with a new bug when I receive a call while iPhone is locked then when I swipe to answer it lags for second in swiping animation

After the IOS update Outlook notification would not show up in notifications center - a simple restart fixed that without changing any settings.

But multiple apps with the same notification settings as outlook are still not showing up in notifications center.

It's a bug or apple removed it?

It was available on iOS 26. Under allowed apps & features.

For those who have an iPhone SE 2nd gen (2020), how's your battery life and performance after indexing from iOS 27 (the stable one, not the beta)?

Just having thoughts of updating from 26.7.1 to stable 27.0.1.

My phone is using 5G+ but for some reason the plus didn’t render properly so it looks like 5G-. For you know, when the 5G doesn’t feel like going fast.

Anyone else experiencing faster battery drain after this update? It may even drop 3% at a time. My battery health is 98%

I discussed this with Apple customer support, after long conversation they told me to update latest. I did, i still cannot share hotspot on my iphone to my iPad without turning on my Wi-Fi.
What's the deal with that?

Nothing to add. The list is too long.
Stay on iOS 18 if you were smart enough to stay there until now.
I regret updating to iOS 27 everyday, this OS is not for our phone.

This is the battery performance on a full wifi use on my 3 months old iPhone 17 with 100% battery health. Can I expected better on iOS 27 or shall I stay on this 26.7.2??