{"id":625343,"date":"2026-09-15T12:12:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T12:12:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/625343\/"},"modified":"2026-09-15T12:12:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T12:12:15","slug":"ios-27s-iphone-handoff-feature-expanding-to-more-carriers-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/625343\/","title":{"rendered":"iOS 27’s iPhone Handoff Feature Expanding to More Carriers This Year"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"iPhoneApple last week announced that Verizon and EE will support iOS 27’s new iPhone Handoff feature later this year. The feature allows you to switch between any two iPhones running iOS 27 while using the same phone number on each device.<\/p>\n

iPhone Handoff is initially supported by T-Mobile (which is charging $5\/month for it<\/a>) and Deutsche Telekom. To learn more about the feature, read our previous coverage<\/a> and Apple’s support document<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Popular StoriesHere’s When iOS 27 Rolls Out Today in Every Time Zone [Update: It’s Out]<\/a><\/p>\n

Update 10:04 a.m.: iOS 27 is rolling out now, though it may take a bit for all users to see it, so keep checking! Apple is about to release iOS 27, which will finally deliver more advanced Siri AI capabilities as well as a variety of other refinements, improvements, and new features to iPhones. It’s Apple’s biggest software update of the year, and Apple announced at Wednesday’s iPhone event…<\/p>\n

iOS 27 Introduces New ‘iPhone Handoff’ Feature<\/a><\/p>\n

Apple has added a new “iPhone Handoff” feature to iOS 27 that will allow you to switch between two iPhones while using the same phone number on each device. This functionality was briefly mentioned during the WWDC 2026 keynote in June, on a slide that listed hundreds of new features coming in iOS 27 and corresponding software updates, but Apple never shared any further details at the time. …<\/p>\n

iOS 27 Available Today With These 8 New Features<\/a><\/p>\n

Update: Apple has released iOS 27. During its iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone Duo event last week, Apple announced that iOS 27 will be released widely on Monday, September 14. iOS 27 should be available around 10 a.m. Pacific Time \/ 1 p.m. Eastern Time today via the Settings app, under General \u2192 Software Update. Below, we have highlighted eight new features and changes coming with iOS…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Apple last week announced that Verizon and EE will support iOS 27’s new iPhone Handoff feature later this…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":625344,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[61,87728,264019,60,202,254405,80],"class_list":["post-625343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mobile","tag-ie","tag-ios-27","tag-iphone-handoff","tag-ireland","tag-mobile","tag-no-linkback","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625343","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=625343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625343\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/625344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=625343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=625343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=625343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}