{"id":710760,"date":"2026-06-18T04:19:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T04:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/710760\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T04:19:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T04:19:10","slug":"ipados-27-hands-on-everything-new-for-ipad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/710760\/","title":{"rendered":"iPadOS 27 Hands-On: Everything New for iPad"},"content":{"rendered":"

Like iOS 27<\/a>, iPadOS 27<\/a> gains a smarter, more capable version of Siri<\/a>, the \u200cSiri\u200c app, and new Apple Intelligence<\/a> features in apps, but there are a few iPad-only standouts.<\/p>\n

\u200cSiri\u200c AI on iPad<\/a> has all of the same features as \u200cSiri\u200c AI on the iPhone, so it can access your personal data, search the web for answers, complete tasks in apps, and answer questions about what’s on your screen. For people who write with Apple Pencil<\/a> on \u200ciPad\u200c, it can index your handwritten notes so you can search through them. You can use \u200cSiri\u200c to take action on your notes, whether typed or handwritten.<\/p>\n

\u200cSiri\u200c can summarize, rewrite, give you writing advice, check grammar, generate new text for you, and more. There’s a systemwide Write with \u200cSiri\u200c feature for getting help no matter which app you’re using.<\/p>\n

There’s a new Image Playground<\/a> app that can generate images in any style, including photorealistic, and that powers the Image Wand<\/a> in the Notes app. You can draw a quick sketch of something in Notes and then use \u200cImage Wand\u200c to turn it into a photorealistic visual aid.<\/p>\n

Visual Intelligence<\/a> used to be an iPhone-only feature, but in \u200ciPadOS 27\u200c, it’s expanding to the \u200ciPad\u200c. You can take a screenshot and then circle what you want to know more about with a finger or the \u200cApple Pencil\u200c. The \u200ciPad\u200c supports the same \u200cVisual Intelligence\u200c features, like telling you the nutritional value of food and identifying plants and animals.<\/p>\n

The Shortcuts app can use AI to automatically generate shortcuts for you, which can be especially useful on the \u200ciPad\u200c. If you want a quick way to change how the \u200ciPad\u200c’s windowing works when you attach a keyboard vs. when you use it without a keyboard, you can describe that in a sentence or two and get a functional shortcut just a minute later.<\/p>\n

Safari supports automatically grouping tabs, plus there’s an AI feature for generating your own extensions. Like \u200ciOS 27\u200c, \u200ciPadOS 27\u200c is also more responsive thanks to performance improvements. Browsing and transferring files are quicker, AirDrop is faster, apps launch more quickly, and multitasking on \u200ciPad\u200c is faster.<\/p>\n

There’s a Liquid Glass slider for adjusting opacity to your taste, and Apple also made other Liquid Glass improvements to boost readability. You can also resize iPhone apps that are running on the \u200ciPad\u200c.<\/p>\n

\u200cSiri\u200c AI and \u200cApple Intelligence\u200c in \u200ciPadOS 27\u200c require an \u200ciPad\u200c with an M-series chip or the A17 Pro iPad mini<\/a>. EU users won’t get \u200cSiri\u200c AI on \u200ciPad\u200c when \u200ciPadOS 27\u200c launches, and it’s also not available in China.<\/p>\n

Older iPads won’t get \u200cSiri\u200c AI or \u200cApple Intelligence\u200c features, but they will get the performance improvements Apple added. Older iPads will feel faster on \u200ciPadOS 27\u200c than they do in iPadOS 26<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Like iOS 27, iPadOS 27 gains a smarter, more capable version of Siri, the \u200cSiri\u200c app, and new…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":710761,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[831,21430,74],"class_list":["post-710760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-featured","tag-ios-27","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=710760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710760\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/710761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=710760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=710760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=710760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}