Design refinements to Apple’s Liquid Glass UI, allowing users to choose how clear or frosted buttons and bars look. Custom EQ for AirPods. Smoother network transitions between using WiFi and Cellular, so your device won’t stay on a bad WiFi connection. Use Agentic AI to fix all your passwords with a single tap. Magic Cue-like features: bringing helpful context into messages, and on your screen during a phone call (like a flight confirmation number). You can see all the new features on Apple’s website.

Apple’s big swing during this year’s keynote was an all-new Siri, now more conversational with better speech dictation and Visual Intelligence built into the Camera app, though it’s hard not to notice that Google Gemini got there first, especially with its use of Personal Context data. Two genuinely clever new additions: you can now vibe-code your own Siri Shortcuts in plain language, and Safari can build custom extensions just from a description. Plus, Safari can notify you when a website is updated. Apple also delivered a much-needed overhaul of parental controls and under-the-hood enhancements, making it feel a bit like a Snow Leopard year. Everything was centered on performance upgrades: with apps launching up to 30% faster, AirDrop 80% faster, and iOS 27 support stretching all the way back to the iPhone 11.

As we discussed in our review of the Meta Ray-Ban Gen 2, a major downside of these glasses is the build-up of creep around this product due to user misuse. A new write-up from Wired details products marketed to Meta Ray-Ban users that block the recording light, allowing them to supposedly record people without their knowledge. Even though some of these products fail to bypass Meta’s recording guardrails on the glasses, the fact that they are being marketed to millions of people via TikTok will likely further erode trust in the products and the users who wear them.

For months, fans of the popular VR community have loathed the changes Meta made to the platform, chronicled in an excellent write-up by Victoria Song, The Verge. Now, Supernatural has a chance to become what it once was: an independent company that can just focus on catering to its community of users, not burdened by the changing whims of Mark Zuckerberg. The new app is expected to launch this fall, and you can read more about the change here.