On iPhone 18 Pro you can find a photo by describing it in a sentence, and you can build a memory movie by typing a one-line description. Both features run on Apple Intelligence, and Apple Support’s current guide lists the steps: tap Search in Photos and describe what you want, or go to Collections >…
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How to Use Smart Take on iPhone Duo: Let the Phone Pick the Moment Everyone Is Posed
Smart Take is an iPhone Duo camera feature that uses on-device AI to watch a group through the viewfinder and take the picture at the moment everyone is posed, so nobody has to count down or tap the shutter. Apple lists it on its iPhone Duo product page as one of four camera features only…
Siri AI on iPhone 18 Pro: Daily Usage Limits, the Future Paid Tier and What 'Beta' Means for Buyers
Siri AI on iPhone 18 Pro ships as a beta, is subject to daily usage limits, and will offer what Apple calls expanded access for a fee in the future. Those three points sit in the footnotes of Apple’s iPhone 18 Pro and iOS 27 pages, and none of them comes with a number, a…
How to Set Up AirPods 5: Pairing, Head Gestures, Adaptive Audio and Live Translation
AirPods 5 arrive on Friday, September 18 at $129, or $149 with the Wireless Charging Case, and they bring four features that need a minute of setup: pairing, head-gesture replies, Adaptive Audio and Live Translation. Apple’s press release says hands-free Siri AI also needs iOS 27 and an Apple Intelligence iPhone. AirPods 5 cost $129,…
How to Use Clean Up and Image Playground on iPhone: Requirements and Steps
Clean Up removes objects from a photo and Image Playground generates new ones, and both run on Apple Intelligence. Apple’s requirements page lists iPhone 16 models, iPhone 15 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro Max as the minimum, and iOS 27 expands both tools: Apple’s iOS page says the enhanced Clean Up can remove even larger…
How to Use Photographic Styles on iPhone 18 Pro: Texture, Grain, Tone and Color Explained
Photographic Styles on iPhone 18 Pro now adjust four things instead of two. Apple’s tech specs list Photographic Styles 3 for the new phones, and its overview page describes new texture and grain controls sitting alongside the tone and color pad that iPhone 16 and 17 owners already know. Photographic Styles 3 adds texture and…
How to Use Camera Control on iPhone 18 Pro: Every Press, Slide and Setting
Camera Control is the pressure-sensitive button on the right edge of the iPhone 18 Pro, and Apple’s overview page describes it as the fastest way into Camera for a photo or video. It clicks, it half-presses, and it reads a finger sliding along it, which is why it can adjust zoom, exposure and Photographic Styles…
Apple Intelligence Languages in iOS 27: All 16, Plus What Siri AI Adds in October
Apple Intelligence in iOS 27 supports 16 languages, according to Apple’s iOS 27 page: English, Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), Danish, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish and Vietnamese. The list applies from Monday, September 14, when the free update ships. Siri AI's writing help on the iPhone Duo. The beta…
How to Prepare Your iPhone for iOS 27 on September 14: Backup, Free Space, Battery and Settings
iOS 27 arrives as a free update on Monday, September 14, for iPhone 11 and later and iPhone SE (2nd generation and later), according to Apple’s iOS 27 page. Apple has not stated a release hour, but it usually ships iOS updates around 10 a.m. Pacific, which gives you the weekend to get an iPhone…
iOS 27 Home App Explained: Activity Notifications, Video Descriptions, AI Clip Search and 4K Recording
The Home app gets four additions in iOS 27, according to Apple’s iOS 27 page: activity notifications, video descriptions, AI clip search and 4K recording support. They arrive with the free update on Monday, September 14, on iPhone 11 and later, and three of the four are about home cameras rather than lights and locks.…
iOS 27 Accessibility: VoiceOver Image Descriptions, Auto Subtitles With Translation and Magnifier Tools
iOS 27 adds three accessibility features that Apple calls out by name on its iOS 27 page: richer VoiceOver image descriptions, auto-generated video subtitles with translation, and new Magnifier tools. All three arrive with the free update on Monday, September 14, on iPhone 11 and later. iOS 27's accessibility features run on iPhone 11 and…
How Safari's Automatic Tab Organization Works in iOS 27, and How to Use It
Safari in iOS 27 sorts your open tabs for you. Apple’s iOS 27 page describes automatic tab organization that groups tabs by topic, so a dozen pages about a trip, a purchase and a work project stop sitting in one long strip and land in clusters instead. It ships with the free iOS 27 update…
How to Use Spatial Reframing, Extend and Clean Up in iOS 27 Photos
The Photos app in iOS 27 picks up three editing tools, according to Apple’s iOS 27 page: Spatial Reframing, an Extend tool and an enhanced version of Clean Up. They arrive with the free update on Monday, September 14, alongside Image Playground with photorealistic images and, on the new phones, Apple Reference Image. Apple Reference…
iOS 27 Compatible iPhones: The Full List, and Which Models Get Full Apple Intelligence
iOS 27 runs on iPhone 11 and later, according to Apple’s iOS 27 page, and arrives as a free update on Monday, September 14. That is a broad list, but the headline features are not evenly spread: full Apple Intelligence, including the Siri AI beta, is limited to iPhone 15 Pro, iPhone 15 Pro Max…
How to Set Up Safari Notify Me in iOS 27 for Price Drops and Restocks
Safari in iOS 27 gains Notify Me, a feature Apple’s iOS 27 page describes as alerts for price changes and restocks on pages you are watching. Set it on a product page and Safari tells you when the price moves or an out-of-stock item comes back, without you reloading the page every morning. It arrives…
How to Use Siri Mode in the Camera App on iOS 27: Visual Search From the Viewfinder
iOS 27 puts Siri inside the Camera app. Apple’s iOS 27 page describes a Siri mode in Camera that gives you visual search and information straight from the viewfinder, so you point the iPhone at something and ask about it instead of taking a photo first and searching later. The feature arrives with the free…
tvOS 27 didn't get a release date when Apple dated iOS 27 and macOS 27
Apple has not given tvOS 27 a release date. Apple’s own OS pages confirm September 14 for iOS 27, iPadOS 27, macOS 27, watchOS 27 and visionOS 27 as free updates, but tvOS 27 is not on that list. The timing matters because Apple’s September 9 event included no Apple TV hardware. The keynote covered…
iOS 27 on iPhone Duo: Split View, StandBy and the 'Posable' Positions Explained
iPhone Duo ships with iOS 27.1, not the iOS 27.0 that reaches other iPhones on Monday, September 14, and Apple’s press release lists four features built for the foldable: Split View for running two apps side by side, an upgraded StandBy, a redesigned Dynamic Island and a new Call Context widget. Apple’s product page adds…
Apple's New Health Features: Which Need an Apple Watch, Which Need an iPhone, and Which Need Both
Apple spread its new health features across three places today: the Health Sensing System in Apple Watch Series 12 and Ultra 4, watchOS 27 for existing watches, and a redesigned Health app arriving with iOS 27 on September 14. Some features need only an iPhone, some need only a new watch, and the most talked-about…
Siri AI Arrives on iPhone, Apple Watch and AirPods: Where It Works on September 14 and What Needs an Upgrade
Apple’s new Siri AI reaches three product lines on Monday, September 14, when iOS 27 and watchOS 27 ship as free updates. It launches in beta in English, with French, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese and Spanish following in October, and it runs on-device and through Private Cloud Compute as part of Apple Intelligence. The catch is…
Apple's New Movement Evaluations: Test VO2 Max, Balance and Strength With Your iPhone Camera
Apple’s redesigned Health app adds five movement evaluations, covering flexibility, strength, balance, movement mechanics and VO2 max, that use the iPhone camera together with Apple Watch. Apple says the tests were developed with clinicians and run entirely on device, with no video recorded, stored or shared. The evaluations feed the movement health category of the…
iPhone 18 Pro Features You Get on an Older iPhone With iOS 27, and the Ones You Do Not
iOS 27 arrives Monday, September 14 as a free update, four days before the iPhone 18 Pro reaches stores from $1,199. Several of the features Apple showed alongside the new phones are software, which means an older iPhone gets them without a $1,199 purchase. Others depend on the A20 Pro, the new camera hardware or…
Apple Health Labs: 50+ Biomarkers for $119 at Quest Diagnostics, How It Works
Apple’s redesigned Health app adds a Labs feature that lets US users book and buy a blood panel covering more than 50 biomarkers for $119 at about 2,000 Quest Diagnostics locations. It arrives with iOS 27 on September 14 as part of the Health app’s new Longevity tab. Labs sits alongside the new Longevity tab,…
Apple Health Age Explained: How Apple Watch Compares Your Metrics With Your Actual Age
Health Age is a new measure in Apple’s redesigned Health app that shows how your health metrics track against your chronological age. It draws on four readings from Apple Watch, VO2 max, resting heart rate, sleep and heart rate variability, and lets you add lab values such as A1c and LDL cholesterol. The feature is…