iOS 27 will focus on code slimming, shifting from "face" to "lizi"

Well-known Apple whistleblower Mark Gurman revealed that Apple is preparing to show iOS 27 at this year’s developer conference. Although this generation of systems will not make drastic changes in visual design, its underlying optimization may be the most significant in recent years. iOS 27 will continue to use the liquid glass design language of iOS 26. The UI interface will only be fine-tuned in details and there will be no disruptive visual changes. Apple's current focus has shifted from "face" to "lizi", striving to create a stable version similar to the Snow Leopard period.

The biggest killer feature of this version of the system is the epic improvement in battery life. In order to achieve this goal,Apple engineers are cleaning up redundant code in the system on a large scale to improve the overall operating efficiency of the code base.At the same time, by optimizing the underlying scheduling of old applications, iOS 27 can complete daily tasks with lower power consumption. This slimming optimization strategy will fundamentally solve the battery life issues that plague users.

In the field of artificial intelligence, iOS 27 also has major highlights.The new Siri chatbot will be officially unveiled, and its bottom layer is connected to Google's Gemini model.Internally at Apple, the model is called Apple Foundation Models 11. The model is said to be powerful enough to compete head-on with Google's Gemini 3, and will be far more powerful than Siri currently in the iOS 26.4 beta.

According to Apple’s traditional release rhythm,iOS 27 is expected to be unveiled at the WWDC conference in June this year.And then start developer testing. Wait until September, it will be officially launched with the new iPhone 18 Pro series.