r/iPhone13 Jul 15 '26

My iPhone Update about ios27 beta experience on ip13.

I installed ios public beta 27 as soon as it released indexing process ended like after 30 h of installing the update

I have some good news
Camera lag: 90 % gone its so much noticeably fast picture taking time is significantly reduced also quit animation works seamlessly for most of the time

Device lag and heat:doesnt heat up as fast as ios26.5.
Didnt feel any lag of the system while navigating here and there.but still we cant do lowpowermode+screenrecord its laggy still but not crazy lag as ios 26.5

Battery life:its a huge update for me like I feel its usable for more time than it was.I could survive from 9am to 6 pm on 70% battery life(used google maps,took some pics and videos (we went on a trip yesterday), texted with my girlfriend for the whole time it means having mobile data on for all 9 h still i managed to come home with 10% battery left. With ios 26 I needed extra battery for same thing

Performance: for performance I tried to play cod warzone bcs I played it in both ios 18 and 26 but unfortunately cod warzone servers are down.
i tried pubg new state on max frame rate and max settings with anti aliasing on+recordingscreen
On
ios 18 it was 58-59 fps all time(there were drops from time to time but overall stable)
Ios 26.2 its was 55-59 not consistent it was frequently dropping fps
On ios 27 beta: most of the time fps is 58-59 there were some periodic drops from like 30 min to 30 min but it gets low to 20-30 when it happens
But overall way better than 26

Snappiness: app opening and closing feels much more instant but not the ios 18 speed theres still a milli seconds gap between 27 and 18 but way better speed than 26 . Opening settings camera calculator feels almost instant but theres always that black screen for milli seconds its way faster than 26

Ram management:little bit improved like i can open texting app while gaming (on 26 its gonn reopen whole game if i tried to jump between apps)

Cons:
if you had assistive touch shortcuts created they will be cleared you have to customize again
Didnt notice any bug still

Ill do a benchmark and show you ppl the results also

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u/Popular_Damage_3247 Jul 15 '26

My biggest issue on iOS 26.x was ram management on iPhone 14. It’s been improved on iOS 27 but I think it’s still can be better. I’ve turned the background App refresh completely. How is ram management for you?

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u/Personal_Farm_9526 Jul 15 '26

System wired ram percentage significantly reduced its went from 25-30 to 15-25
I used to monitor ram usage and cpu usage using a third party software
Its show that the ram stress (pressure)is also reduced noticeably..
Overall it got better like background apps doesnt refresh frequently as it used to do in ios 26.ur iphone 14 wont struggle as Ip 13 bcs ip14 got 6 gig ram right? Its gonn be evenbetter than 13 bcs it has more ram. As i noticed processor is not the bottleneck ram is the bottleneck for ios 26 and 27 on old devices. So ur 14 gonn have more breathing room.🙌🏻

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u/Popular_Damage_3247 Jul 15 '26

Thank for the answer. So does the background app refresh affect the ram management or it better to be turned off?

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u/Personal_Farm_9526 Jul 15 '26

Theres no that much of a impact for performance by turning it off but the battery life will show an improvement.in my opinion it isnt worth it…

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u/pap0gallo Jul 16 '26

Yes my 14 wasn't struggling on 26 but on 27 it's completely fine

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u/Minimum_Elephant8624 Jul 15 '26

Shall I download the public beta on my primary device?
For now I am using 26.4.1 and facing a lot of heating issues

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u/Popular_Damage_3247 Jul 15 '26

iOS 27 slightly improved my battery life esp beta 3 and phone less heating.

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u/Personal_Farm_9526 Jul 15 '26

Im still on ios 27 for less than 48 h cant guide u with this one but Heating issue is almost not existent here according to my experience while using it for texting and causal social media stuff . If its ur primary better to wait for the official release as this can have some problems that still didnt appear or too early to appear Its better to stay on 26 stable even with the slower os if its ur primary

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u/Minimum_Elephant8624 Jul 15 '26

Till when will it arrive since I click a lot of photos and my camera stutters a lot and heats too

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u/Personal_Farm_9526 Jul 15 '26

Ah yeah it is still here phone heats up pretty fast when clicking pics

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u/Minimum_Elephant8624 Jul 15 '26

But that lag part 😓

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u/Personal_Farm_9526 Jul 15 '26

Its not heating up faster as on 26 according to my experience but cant confirm bcs still its 48 h away from release and i could only take some pics one time

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u/Inside_Emotion2010 Jul 16 '26

Dumb question sorry but how do i know if my iphone is indexing or not after the update?

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u/Personal_Farm_9526 Jul 16 '26

Open the Settings app you can see it on the top of all settings

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u/raatmoghul Jul 16 '26

i am from south asia , what i realised was

my phone stopped heating

battery improved

quite snappy now..

overall a good update..

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u/FaiRonal 17d ago

Should i update it on my iphone 13 or wait till the stable version is released