Note: This article was first published on 21 July 2026.
Last week, Apple released the public beta of iOS 27. For those unfamiliar with the whole business of betas, Apple offers two betas for its new software platforms.
The developer beta is often released immediately after the WWDC keynote and is meant to give developers a feel of the new platform and its features. And then a month later is when the public beta typically gets released. This is the version intended for regular users like you and me to install and try.
Typically, I don’t install betas on my primary device for fear that something might go wrong. But to get the best out of Siri AI and have it be useful, you really need to run it on your primary device so that it can index your messages and emails. And so, I decided to #yolo and, in the eternal words of Nike, “Just do it.”
Happily, other than some app icons not appearing properly in Spotlight search, it’s been going swell. All the apps that I frequently use still work as they should (banking apps and Singpass included), battery life doesn’t appear to be adversely affected either, and I’m discovering new ways to use Siri AI as the days pass.
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