{"id":518122,"date":"2026-06-25T18:05:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T18:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/518122\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T18:05:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T18:05:15","slug":"i-hate-ai-but-even-i-cant-wait-to-try-these-10-features-on-my-iphone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/518122\/","title":{"rendered":"I hate AI, but even I can’t wait to try these 10 features on my iPhone"},"content":{"rendered":"

Summary created by Smart Answers AI<\/p>\n

In summary:Macworld explores 10 upcoming iOS 27 features that showcase AI\u2019s practical benefits, including customizable Siri voices and enhanced security tools.Key additions include Call Context for displaying relevant information during calls, an AI-powered Passwords app for vulnerability detection, and improved Home app camera management.These features require iPhone Air or iPhone 17 Pro models and demonstrate how Apple Intelligence can genuinely improve user experience beyond typical AI hype.<\/p>\n

As expected, Apple\u2019s WWDC26 keynote presentation was heavily AI-themed. For those of us growing increasingly sick of the AI hype train<\/a> this was a trying experience, with tech\u2019s buzzword du jour crammed into every conceivable aspect of the OS updates. But it wasn\u2019t all bad.<\/p>\n

In fact, there are several new functions coming to the iPhone this year which I\u2019m genuinely excited about, showing that AI can be a force for good when companies focus on the output, not on the technology used to get there. Here are 10 iOS 27 features I can\u2019t wait to try.<\/p>\n

1. Change my passwords for me<\/p>\n

Password maintenance is as boring and laborious as it is necessary. Companies have got a lot better at notifying users when an account password has been compromised in a data breach, but when this happens it tends to happen en masse. Updating and keeping track of dozens of separate passwords is a task so daunting that I tend to put it off, thereby putting my data at risk.<\/p>\n

But in iOS 27, this will be done for you\u2026 by AI, inevitably. The Passwords app will alert you when it becomes aware of vulnerable login details (not just compromised passwords but those which are duplicates or otherwise weak) and then, crucially, offer to update them for you. Secure and convenient, as my colleague Alex Blake explains<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"passwords<\/p>\n

\t\t\tGoing through those 30 accounts by hand would take half the afternoon.<\/p>\n

Apple<\/p>\n

2. Pass me useful info when I\u2019m on a call<\/p>\n

It can be a real pain when dealing with a company or call center, trying to wrangle relevant information stored on the same phone you\u2019re currently using to speak to them. They\u2019ll ask for your account ID or ticket number, and you\u2019ll have to rummage through various apps to track this down while awkwardly keeping the conversation going.<\/p>\n

iOS 27 promises to make this experience easier thanks to a new feature called Call Context. It uses AI to predict information you\u2019ll need based on who you\u2019re talking to. So if you call an airline, it will surface the relevant flight confirmation from Mail, for example.<\/p>\n

3. Make Safari sound more human<\/p>\n

In the past, Apple has given us some choice about the way Siri sounds, but nothing like this. In iOS 27, assuming you have a sufficiently powerful iPhone Air, iPhone 17 Pro, or later, users can customise Siri\u2019s voice using two independent sliders: one adjusts speed, the other expressiveness. And it\u2019s impressive how human it can be made to sound.<\/p>\n

This isn\u2019t just a cosmetic change. Siri\u2019s droning, pompous voice is a major source of annoyance when delivering error messages, so a more human and less irritating level of expressivity can only improve the user experience. That might be worth upgrading to an iPhone 18 Pro in the fall.<\/p>\n

4. Let me control my kids\u2019 browsing more easily<\/p>\n

iOS already has decent parental controls, but these can be quite clumsy to administer. I use a whitelist and block all other websites by default, so anytime my kids need to browse a new site for homework, I have to go into their settings and add it to the list manually. The new Ask to Browse feature allows them to request permission remotely in the same way they can request 15 more minutes on an app; parents can check out the site, then approve if they feel it\u2019s appropriate.<\/p>\n

5. Give me a different volume for alarms<\/p>\n

Sometimes you need a loud alarm but don\u2019t want the other system sounds to be quite so attention-grabbing. Fortunately, in iOS 27, the volume of your alarms can be adjusted independently. In the Sounds & Haptics section of Settings, you\u2019ll find toggles that let you detach the volume of alarms, timers, and so on from the general ringtone volume, and then adjust their volume to suit. OK, maybe this isn\u2019t actual AI, but I don\u2019t care. It\u2019s overdue.<\/p>\n

6. Resend my failed messages<\/p>\n

Not all of the changes in iOS 27 were fully explored in the presentation. This obnoxious slide<\/a> lists 263 otherwise unmentioned small improvements across Apple\u2019s ecosystem, and several stand out. The one that I\u2019m most pleased to see (number 110) is \u201cFailed messages automatically retry sending.\u201d Small changes are sometimes the most important.<\/p>\n

\"OS<\/p>\n

\t\t\tThat\u2019s a lot of changes.<\/p>\n

Apple<\/p>\n

7. Limit my shared albums<\/p>\n

Number 113 on that list is another interesting one: \u201cExpire your Shared Albums.\u201d This means you\u2019ll be able to create a shared photo album with a group of friends, but set an expiration time so it doesn\u2019t last forever. Useful when you create an album for a specific event or holiday but don\u2019t want it clogging up your Photos collections afterwards.<\/p>\n

8. Organise my tabs in a smarter way<\/p>\n

Safari is getting some nice changes this year. Apple focused on how this will affect Mac users, but Safari on iPhone also gets two valuable updates. The first is a new AI-powered tab organization tool that will group tabs by topic rather than website\/domain. This will make it much easier to keep track of all the stuff we\u2019ve been browsing.<\/p>\n

If you don\u2019t like the sound of that, don\u2019t worry: it\u2019s optional.<\/p>\n

9. Keep tabs on websites for me<\/p>\n

Automated tab wrangling is useful, but Safari\u2019s new Notify Me feature is a game-changer. It lets you build custom alerts for specific changes to specific websites: when a price drops, for example, or tickets go on sale, you\u2019ll receive a notification. No longer will you have to spend all day refreshing the website and going mad.<\/p>\n

Again, this feature has mostly been aimed at Mac fans<\/a>, but it\u2019s coming to iPhone too.<\/p>\n

10. Intelligently monitor my security cameras<\/p>\n

If you own security cameras that are compatible with HomeKit, iOS 27 will be a godsend. Apple Intelligence will make the Home app\u2019s camera management far more sophisticated because it can analyse the imagery and \u2018understand\u2019 what it\u2019s seeing. Related notifications will be grouped together; noteworthy clips will be highlighted; and the app will be able to generate descriptions of the video captured by your cameras. All of this will make your security setup much more useful.<\/p>\n

\"iOS<\/p>\n

\t\t\tIt was just a fruit bowl delivery! Now you don\u2019t need to watch the footage.<\/p>\n

Apple<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Summary created by Smart Answers AI In summary:Macworld explores 10 upcoming iOS 27 features that showcase AI\u2019s practical…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":518123,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[61,60,202,80],"class_list":["post-518122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mobile","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-mobile","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=518122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518122\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/518123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=518122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=518122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=518122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}