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The upcoming iOS 27 update that Apple unveiled last week includes some new features and enhancements for Apple's Find My app on the iPhone. iOS 27 is currently available as a developer beta, with a public beta to follow in July. The update is expected to be released to all users in September. Below, we have outlined three additions to Apple's Find My app on iOS 27. Hide Location A new "Hide Location" option in Find My allows you to discreetly pause your location sharing with specific people until the end of the day — the other person will not receive any notification or alert about you temporarily hiding your location. Apple says it added this feature for situations such as surprise birthday parties. Custom Durations for Location Sharing Find My now lets you share your location with others for a custom duration between 15 minutes and 30 days. You can set a precise number of days, hours, and minutes, or you can set a set a date and time for your location sharing to expire. On iOS 26, there are only three preset timeframes: indefinitely, until end of day, and one hour. Landscape Mode iOS 27 enables landscape mode in more of Apple's built-in iPhone apps , including Find My. Landscape mode was already available on iOS 26 or earlier in Apple Maps, Calendar, Files, Notes, Mail, and some other Apple apps too, but iOS 27 expands support to many more apps. This change could be laying the groundwork for the " iPhone Ultra ," as landscape-friendly apps would be well suited for the rumored foldable device. To use landscape mode in a supported app, simply turn your iPhone sideways. Portrait Orientation Lock must be turned off in Control Center. Related Roundups: iOS 27 , iPadOS 27 Tag: Find My This article, " iOS 27 Adds These New Features to Find My, Including 'Hide Location' " first appeared on MacRumors.com Discuss this article in our forums
In macOS 27 Golden Gate, Apple has brought some meaningful updates to iPhone Mirroring besides a new app icon. Here's what's new. macOS 27 is currently in developer beta, with a public beta coming next month and a general release expected in the fall. Window Resizing In macOS Tahoe, iPhone Mirroring is constrained to the iPhone's native aspect ratio, so window resizing is limited to the device's fixed proportions. Smaller, Actual Size, and Larger are the only options. By contrast, macOS 27 introduces support for multiple aspect ratios. Depending on the chosen aspect ratio, iPhone Mirroring displays either a modified iPhone interface or an app's available iPad layout. Adjustments are limited to iOS 27-compatible apps for now, but expect this to change when developers update their own apps. The change has also stoked speculation about a rumored foldable iPhone coming in September. Control Center Access In macOS 27, you can now access your iPhone's Control Center directly from your Mac using the Command-4 keyboard shortcut or via the View menu in the menu bar. Previously, iPhone Mirroring didn't support Control Center access at all. DRM Support macOS 27 also adds support for DRM-protected video playback in iPhone Mirroring. In macOS Tahoe, attempting to watch protected content, such as videos from streaming services or rented movies, results in a black screen on your Mac. With the next major update, however, you can view DRM-enabled content directly through the mirrored iPhone window. This article, " Three Ways macOS 27 Improves iPhone Mirroring " first appeared on MacRumors.com Discuss this article in our forums
A Mac can update an iPad using the same iPadOS software Apple delivers through Software Update. Here's how Finder can help recover failed installs, fix update problems, and restore devices that won't start properly. Updating an iPad via macOS Updating your iPad directly through Settings remains the easiest way to keep the device current. Apple can automatically download and install new software overnight while the iPad is charging and connected to Wi-Fi if Automatic Updates is enabled. The seamless background process handles everything for the vast majority of users. But sometimes an update refuses to install or leaves the iPad stuck on a recovery screen. Finder offers a reliable recovery path when these software failures occur. Apple built this utility to manually install iPadOS when the on-device update process fails. Continue Reading on AppleInsider | Discuss on our Forums
Like iOS 27 , iPadOS 27 gains a smarter, more capable version of Siri , the ‌Siri‌ app, and new Apple Intelligence features in apps, but there are a few iPad-only standouts. Subscribe to the MacRumors YouTube channel for more videos. ‌Siri‌ AI on iPad has all of the same features as ‌Siri‌ AI on the iPhone, so it can access your personal data, search the web for answers, complete tasks in apps, and answer questions about what's on your screen. For people who write with Apple Pencil on ‌iPad‌, it can index your handwritten notes so you can search through them. You can use ‌Siri‌ to take action on your notes, whether typed or handwritten. ‌Siri‌ can summarize, rewrite, give you writing advice, check grammar, generate new text for you, and more. There's a systemwide Write with ‌Siri‌ feature for getting help no matter which app you're using. There's a new Image Playground app that can generate images in any style, including photorealistic, and that powers the Image Wand in the Notes app. You can draw a quick sketch of something in Notes and then use ‌Image Wand‌ to turn it into a photorealistic visual aid. Visual Intelligence used to be an iPhone-only feature, but in ‌iPadOS 27‌, it's expanding to the ‌iPad‌. You can take a screenshot and then circle what you want to know more about with a finger or the ‌Apple Pencil‌. The ‌iPad‌ supports the same ‌Visual Intelligence‌ features, like telling you the nutritional value of food and identifying plants and animals. The Shortcuts app can use AI to automatically generate shortcuts for you, which can be especially useful on the ‌iPad‌. If you want a quick way to change how the ‌iPad‌'s windowing works when you attach a keyboard vs. when you use it without a keyboard, you can describe that in a sentence or two and get a functional shortcut just a minute later. Safari supports automatically grouping tabs, plus there's an AI feature for generating your own extensions. Like ‌iOS 27‌, ‌iPadOS 27‌ is also more responsive thanks to performance improvements. Browsing and transferring files are quicker, AirDrop is faster, apps launch more quickly, and multitasking on ‌iPad‌ is faster. There's a Liquid Glass slider for adjusting opacity to your taste, and Apple also made other Liquid Glass improvements to boost readability. You can also resize iPhone apps that are running on the ‌iPad‌. ‌Siri‌ AI and ‌Apple Intelligence‌ in ‌iPadOS 27‌ require an ‌iPad‌ with an M-series chip or the A17 Pro iPad mini . EU users won't get ‌Siri‌ AI on ‌iPad‌ when ‌iPadOS 27‌ launches, and it's also not available in China. Older iPads won't get ‌Siri‌ AI or ‌Apple Intelligence‌ features, but they will get the performance improvements Apple added. Older iPads will feel faster on ‌iPadOS 27‌ than they do in iPadOS 26 . Related Roundups: iOS 27 , iPadOS 27 This article, " iPadOS 27 Hands-On: Everything New for iPad " first appeared on MacRumors.com Discuss this article in our forums
