iOS 27 beta is here. What are your experiences?

For me it's just somehow my audio kind of switched to some kind of phone quality, I don't know if that's a bug or it's the new audio layout or a toggelable feature. For the rest it's working great.

Exactly the same here, and yet, it is a bug.

very smooth on my 17 PM, but yes some audio issues.

It's honestly so smooth on both my iPad mini 7 and my 12 pro, but the audio thing is only on my iPad. To be fair, that thing always had bad audio after any random update, I got it on iOS 18 and the thing sounded amazing, 26 was bad, 26.3 was decent again, then we went downhill from there.

how are you guys liking the new EQ feature on Airpods?

When I heard the announcment I was very excited and updated my AirPods. But when I then got to try it out I was like meh, anothen EQ that can't be really customized. I mean, we only have lows, mids and highs, but no frequency bands to adjust. And every headphone company manages to make a 7-band EQ, so come on Apple. And then I can only go up to 20, 40, 60, 80 or 100 and the same in the other direction. That is not what I expected from Apple.

Is it worth trying from new features wise though? During the wwdc i was really waiting for new features but didn't see any, except for the new AI siri which we won't get here in germany right now due to apple being a coward.

Haven't tried yet, but could probably do on weekend. I'm looking forward to it for sure.
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how are you guys liking the new EQ feature on Airpods?
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No, do not try. I have it and it is just useless without the AI. I mean we have the audio problems, that is a nice addition to our iOS experience, but that's really it. Ah, and you can change alarm volume now separately from ringtone volume.

Huh? I spoke about the EQ, I already have the beta, did you read the german thread lol?
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No, do not try. I have it and it is just useless without the AI. I mean we have the audio problems, that is a nice addition to our iOS experience, but that's really it. Ah, and you can change alarm volume now separately from ringtone volume.
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Yes, but I did not read who is the poster of this comment since I only use a braille display and no speech output. And sadly I have to go to the menu to see who is posting.

would it be worth it? I have the iPhone 16 Pro Max, so I think I will get all the AI stuff mostly

Yeah maybe, but if this is your primary device i would wait until the beta is not in such a rough state, so maybe till like beta 3 or so.

I hope we get the AI siri roll out here at least before IOS 28 comes out. :d

How bout norway though. We're not in EU.
|What a blessing.

I am still on the waiting list for siri but it's okay. Everything else works fine except a few voice over and volume bugs.

I went against all recommendations, which is quite a recurring theme in my behavior patterns, and downloaded beta 1 on my main phone 17 PM. It was definitely wort it. The OS feels much more responsive, the smoothest beta 1 experience so far for me out of all I tried.

It is roomered that anyone who does not at least have a 17ProMax is not expected to get the updated version of Siri. Should this be true, this gets Apple a significantly ugly reputation, since they had prommissed for the last 3 phone releases that those phones would support the powerful features of Apple Inteligence. To go along with that, anything below an Apple Watch S9 or Ultra2 will not be receiving the update. This hurts because I just got the first generation Ultra. That was like $700 or more.

17 Pro, and we're talking about on device. The older models down to the 15 Pro will off load to the private computing cloud, which is stupid though, because if they're not running the models on device anyway they could just bring it to every iPhone that gets IOS 27. But na, there must be a reason to force customers to upgrade, right?
I just find it ironic for my particular situation, I bought the iPhone 14 one year before they announced Apple Inteligence, and oh, you only have the 2nd best base iPhone, well bad for you, you won't get it.
And now, they announce SiriAI, image descriptions etc, and I bought the base model 17 in march, just to hhear now, that, we will only bring on device stuff to the 17 Pro. I mean, didn't you maybe, consider putting more RAM in every model of thhe 17 lign up in the 1st place? Dude the iPhone Air hhs apparently more RAM. WTF?
-- (axelsUniverse):
It is roomered that anyone who does not at least have a 17ProMax is not expected to get the updated version of Siri. Should this be true, this gets Apple a significantly ugly reputation, since they had prommissed for the last 3 phone releases that those phones would support the powerful features of Apple Inteligence. To go along with that, anything below an Apple Watch S9 or Ultra2 will not be receiving the update. This hurts because I just got the first generation Ultra. That was like $700 or more.
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you know what's absolutely hilarious about that whole situation? The iPhone 16's were literally marketed for Apple Intelligence, built for Apple Intelligence was literally in the title, but yet my 16 Pro Max will not support all the AI features. I honestly hope to God Apple gets sued for this or something