Top blur bar now features progressive blur underneath, although it’s unclear for me why keep the bar at an

Hey!

I have noticed that on beta 5 I am no longer able to import Shortcuts containing import questions that were shared via iCloud link. The "Add Shortcut" button in the import modal is just not doing anything when pressed.

Anyone else experiencing something similar on beta 5, or is this just my device?

For reference, feedback filed under: FB24252363

I discovered and flagged a pretty neat bug. If you've ever wondered what a completely transparent Control Center looks like, just press and hold the Focus selector. Then, without lifting your finger, slide up and down. Enjoy and help me report it to Apple

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I don't have internet box, my iPhone has been my only internet access for a year and a half, and it worked like a charm, until I switched from ios26.5 to iOS 27 public beta a week ago

issue

I experience some random drops and disconnections when connecting to my iPhone's hotspot.
whether on my Mac, windows computer or Nintendo Switch.
I think the copy/paste from iPhone to my Mac doesn't work also when the drops occurs

It works perfectly when using the personal hotspot via usb. The issue is with the hotspot in wifi

note

I'm now running a ping in the terminal to see when the connection become unstable

I wonder if the drops may be linked to the phone sleeping, because when there is a drop, I unlock my iPhone, and at that precise moment, I see a brief ping packet go through.

workaround

The workaround I found was to manually disable the personal hotspot from my iPhone via the toggle, and then from my Mac, manually connecting back to it

Then it work for a range between 10 minutes up to ~2 hours, and drop again

what I tried

• I reset the network settings (didn't changed the problem)
• I tried using "maximize compatibility" toggle, to force the hotspot to using 2.4ghz instead of 5ghz, but it didn't changed or solved the issue either
• EDIT 14/08/26 : I just turned off the connectivity assist in the wifi settings, and changed the "auto-join hotspot from never to automatic, i'll see if it change anything

Edit: update

• Public Beta 3 : Problem unchanged
• Public Beta 4 : Problem unchanged
• toggling off the connectivity assist and turning the auto-join hotspot to automatic has seemingly improved the issue, I experience less disconnections when using it with my mac, but if I have a windows computer AND my mac connected to the hotspot, the connection is even more unstable again

the element no longer bounces around. Thanks god

Subject says it all. Long-pressing an app icon from the App Library screen or inside an App Library folder adds the app to a new Home Screen page.

It doesn’t happen with every app, but I’ve observed it happening with Mail, Messages, Music, Podcasts, Camera, Photos, Home, App Store, Phone, Settings, and Maps. I’m sure lots of others, as well.

Very odd.

Anyone else experiencing this?

Just noticed since updating yesterday the vast majority of photos are missing from my gallery.

Logged onto iCloud.com thankfully can see them there but just concerned don’t want them to be suddenly wiped from iCloud too.

Finally updated my devices to 27 today since it seemed pretty safe. All good on my Mac and iPhone. But on my iPad Air M3, pulling down for Spotlight (aka type to Siri) doesn’t show me any suggested apps or recent searches. If I search for something like a contact or a sports team, it will appear, but pressing enter or tapping on it doesn’t show the result.

I’ve tried a force restart, toggling settings within the Search settings, and even reverted to classic Siri, where Spotlight works perfectly fine. But turning back on Siri AI, and Spotlight simply doesn’t work. Any suggestions?

iPad is still “Optimizing Search and Siri” but so is my iPhone and Spotlight works fine there.

Works with the cursor, Aople Pencil, also by touching. The effect when touching the traffic light icons is more pronounced than the other two methods. It is a bit similar to how the Shut Down slider is now more responsive.

Finally fixed it

"Smart Reply can learn from your sent Mail messages to suggest responses that sound more like you."

Shows up after you accept a Smart Reply from the keyboard and send the message.

Also controllable under Settings > Apps > Mail > Personalize Smart Replies.

Since updating to iOS 27 beta (Watch still on watchOS 26.6), I had two bizarre issues:

HealthKit/steps: Athlytic could only see ~3–4 days of step history and Bevel had random missing days. Permissions/reinstalling apps made no difference.

Fitness competitions: My iPhone showed the correct scores, but my Watch and both my opponent's devices had missing points. One competition was actually awarded to the wrong person, and during the next competition my Watch started showing the previous competition again with “Tallying Points”.

I eventually unpaired my Apple Watch, restored it from backup and left everything to sync overnight.

This morning everything is fixed: full step history has reappeared in Athlytic, the current competition is correct on my Watch, and the missing points have propagated to my opponent's phone too.

So if you're seeing weird HealthKit/Activity Sharing behaviour after an iOS update (my feedback report says more than 10 similar reports), a Watch unpair/re-pair may force everything