These Four Apple Intelligence Features Might Be Coming in iOS 27
My most anticipated iOS 27 feature isn’t a new feature at all: If the rumors are true, Apple will use its next major iPhone update as an opportunity to squash bugs and improve stability on iOS. The company already started working on this front before iOS 27: With iOS 26.4, Apple fixed some key issues with the iPhone’s keyboard, which users had been complaining about since the company initially rolled out iOS 26, and launched new settings to tone down the appearance of Liquid Glass in response to negative feedback from some users.
But while I hope iOS 27 will be primarily a stability update, I know it won’t be completely lacking in new features. In fact, rumors suggest that Apple will finally unveil its big Siri AI overhaul with this update, which has been a long the time is coming. But in addition to AI Siri, Apple has a small handful of other Apple Intelligence features in the works. It’s possible that iOS 27 will be both a stability update and Apple’s biggest investment in AI yet.
New Apple Intelligence Features Discussed in Apple Coding
As reported by MacRumors, backend code suggests that Apple is working on four new Apple Intelligence features for iOS 27. Nicolás Alvarez made the discovery and MacRumors claims to have been able to verify the results.
The first two of these features relate to Visual Intelligence, Apple’s AI-powered tool for exploring the world around you (or the contents of your iPhone screen). Based on the backend code, it appears Apple is working on a feature that lets you scan a nutrition label on a food to learn more. MacRumors speculates that this feature could work with the Health app, perhaps to log new foods and include all of its nutritional stats.
In addition to this nutritional scanner, Visual Intelligence may be able to add phone numbers and printed addresses to your Contacts app. This could be particularly useful when you take someone’s business card: rather than holding onto the card and entering the details by hand, you could simply scan the card with your iPhone, and iOS could add its details to a new entry in Contacts.
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Apple Intelligence may also soon offer the ability to create digital passes for the Wallet app based on physical items. The idea is that you use your iPhone’s camera to scan a concert ticket or rewards card, and iOS automatically generates the pass to store in Wallet. A similar feature exists on Google Wallet on Android.
Finally, Safari could also benefit from a new AI feature: when you create a tab group, iOS can automatically name it for you, based on the tabs’ contents. Maybe if you collect a bunch of tabs of different recipes, iOS will name your group of tabs “Dinner Ideas”, or if you move a collection of places you’d like to visit on your trip to New York, iOS will call the group “New York Vacation Plans”.
Although MacRumors has confirmed that these are the features discussed in the code, there is no guarantee that these features will arrive in iOS 27 or be exactly as described here. We won’t know what iOS 27 actually looks like until Apple takes the stage in June for WWDC.
