{"id":897541,"date":"2026-10-28T13:08:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-28T13:08:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/897541\/"},"modified":"2026-10-28T13:08:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T13:08:15","slug":"five-ios-27-settings-worth-changing-the-day-you-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/897541\/","title":{"rendered":"Five iOS 27 Settings Worth Changing the Day You Update"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"AYou can tone down Liquid Glass from the Display & Brightness section of Settings in iOS 27.Patrick Holland\/CNET<\/p>\n

iOS 27 ships with Siri saving your conversations and syncing them across every Apple device signed into your account. That\u2019s handy if you want to pick up a chat on your Mac, and less appealing if you\u2019d rather Siri forget what you asked it yesterday. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s one of several defaults in the update worth a second look, along with automatic subtitles on videos and the intensity of the Liquid Glass design. All of them can be changed in Settings with a few taps. Here\u2019s where to find each one.<\/p>\n

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Some of those additions are useful, but a few can quickly get annoying. Siri now appears in more places and its app keeps conversations forever by default. Liquid Glass also remains a major part of the iPhone\u2019s look, whether you love all that transparency or struggle to read through it.<\/p>\n

Fortunately, you can change many of these settings, and we\u2019ve outlined how to do so in this article. <\/p>\n

Make Liquid Glass easier to read<\/p>\n

Apple introduced Liquid Glass with iOS 26, giving menus, buttons, notifications and other interface elements a translucent appearance. Not everyone was a fan of the new design<\/a>, and with iOS 27, you now get more control over exactly how transparent the interface looks.<\/p>\n

Go to Settings > Appearance > Liquid Glass. Drag the slider to the right to add more tint and opacity, making buttons and text easier to distinguish from whatever is behind them. Moving it left makes the interface more transparent.<\/p>\n

If the most opaque setting still isn\u2019t enough, go to Settings > Accessibility > Display & Text Size and turn on Reduce Transparency. This makes translucent backgrounds more solid across iOS, although it overrides the regular Liquid Glass appearance controls.<\/p>\n

\"Liquid<\/p>\n

More tint makes Liquid Glass easier to read.<\/p>\n

Nelson Aguilar\/CNET<\/p>\n

Stop Siri from keeping your conversations forever<\/p>\n

The new Siri AI works similarly t ChatGPT or Claude in iOS 27. It now comes complete with a dedicated app where you can revisit previous conversations. Those chats sync through iCloud so you can start a conversation on your iPhone and continue it on another Apple device, such as your Mac.<\/p>\n

By default, iOS 27 keeps those conversations forever, but there is a way to automatically get rid of older conversations if you don\u2019t want them piling up.<\/p>\n

If you don\u2019t need a permanent archive of everything you ask Siri, go to Settings > Siri > Keep Conversations and choose 30 Days or 1 Year. Selecting either option permanently deletes conversations beyond that timeframe.<\/p>\n

\"Siri<\/p>\n

Siri keeps your conversations forever unless you choose a shorter limit.<\/p>\n

Nelson Aguilar\/CNET<\/p>\n

While you\u2019re there, tap Opens To and select A New Conversation if you want the Siri app to open with a blank chat instead of showing your recent conversations every time.<\/p>\n

Siri AI requires an iPhone 15 Pro or 15 Pro Max, iPhone Air or an iPhone 16 or later.<\/p>\n

Turn off Write with Siri if you never use it<\/p>\n

iOS 27 puts a new Write with Siri button above the keyboard in apps including Messages, Mail and Notes. You can ask Siri AI to draft something from scratch, proofread what you\u2019ve written or rewrite it in a different tone.<\/p>\n

The thing is, I\u2019m not a big fan of the AI writing tools<\/a>, so I don\u2019t use them at all.<\/p>\n

If you prefer writing without the extra AI prompt like I do, you can restrict Siri\u2019s writing features by using Screen Time. Go to Settings > Screen Time > Content & Privacy Restrictions, turn on the restriction and then tap\u00a0Siri > Writing Assistance > Don\u2019t Allow.<\/p>\n

\"Siri<\/p>\n

Screen Time lets you completely disable Siri\u2019s writing tools.<\/p>\n

Nelson Aguilar\/CNET<\/p>\n

This disables access to the writing tools across your iPhone, rather than simply hiding the keyboard button, so only do this if you don\u2019t use Apple\u2019s AI writing tools at all. You can return to the same menu and choose Allow if you want them back. Apple documents the restriction under its Apple Intelligence Screen Time controls<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Stop Siri from activating so easily<\/p>\n

Introduced back in iOS 17, Siri can now wake up when you simply say\u00a0\u201cSiri\u201d instead of \u201cHey Siri.\u201d<\/a> The one-word command is convenient, but it also makes accidental activations more likely whenever someone says Siri\u2019s name in a conversation or a video they\u2019re watching online.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Siri goes absolutely bonkers whenever I\u2019m in work meetings about Apple features.<\/p>\n

To disable the feature, go to Settings > Siri > Talk to Siri. Choose \u201cHey Siri\u201d instead of \u201cSiri.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Hey<\/p>\n

Requiring \u201cHey Siri\u201d can help prevent accidental activations.<\/p>\n

Nelson Aguilar\/CNET<\/p>\n

You\u2019ll still be able to bring up Siri with your voice, but the extra word makes it less likely to wake up when you aren\u2019t talking to it directly.<\/p>\n

This isn\u2019t exclusive to iOS 27, but it\u2019s been annoying me more recently, so thought I would throw it in here, especially with Siri AI being the prominent feature on this update.<\/p>\n

Stop subtitles from automatically appearing in videos<\/p>\n

iOS 27 now automatically shows subtitles on videos in Photos, Safari and other apps that use Apple\u2019s video player. I don\u2019t mind captions when I need them, but they can take up too much of the video and distract me from whatever I\u2019m watching.\u00a0<\/p>\n

They don\u2019t appear randomly though. By default, iOS can turn them on when the video is in another language, when your iPhone is muted or when you skip back.<\/p>\n

Whenever subtitles appear in Apple\u2019s video player, you can tap the video to show the playback controls, tap the More Controls button, select Subtitles and choose Off.<\/p>\n

\"Video<\/p>\n

You can disable subtitles per video.<\/p>\n

Nelson Aguilar\/CNET<\/p>\n

If iOS keeps turning them on because it thinks the video is in another language, go to Settings > Accessibility > Subtitles & Captioning. Under Automatic Subtitles, turn off When Languages Don\u2019t Match.<\/p>\n

The same menu also has switches for Show When Muted and Show on Skip Back, so you can disable those behaviors individually without turning off every automatic subtitle feature.<\/p>\n

\"Video<\/p>\n

You can also disable each automatic subtitle trigger individually.<\/p>\n

Nelson Aguilar\/CNET<\/p>\n

Some apps and websites use their own video players, so you may need to find a separate CC or subtitles button instead.<\/p>\n

For more on iOS 27, check out this article on the features it brings to your iPhone<\/a> and how\u00a0Siri AI helped one of my colleagues avoid eating diarrhea lettuce<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\"Nelson\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tWith more than a decade of experience, Nelson covers Apple and Google and writes about iPhone and Android features, privacy and security settings, and more.
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