If you want to try out the new OS 27 updates and provide feedback, check out our article on how to become a beta tester. It’s easy.
Updated August 24, 2026: The seventh beta of iOS 27 is now available to developers, and should be released to the public testers within the next day or so.
What’s new in iOS 27
The big iOS 27 release this year is focused on three main areas:
- Trust and Safety – New parental controls to keep kids safe and control screen time.
- Performance and refinement – Speeding everything up, improving efficiency, tweaking interfaces, and addressing dozens of small user requests.
- Apple Intelligence and Siri – Entirely new Apple Intelligence models improve AI throughout the system, and a brand-new Siri is vastly more capable than ever before.
For a more complete breakdown of all the new features and changes, check out our iOS 27 guide.
Beta 6 primarily fine-tuned some animations and interface behaviors while optimizing performance. We expect Beta 7 to have similar small refinements, as the general release is getting really close now.
iOS 27: How to install the developer beta
You’ll need to be registered as an Apple Developer, but a free developer account will do. You can get one via Xcode or the Apple Developer app in iOS. Here’s how to do it via the Apple Developer app:
