iPadOS 27 Announced
Here’s what’s new in iPadOS 27:
- The Menu Bar can now be optionally kept always on screen
- iPhone apps can be resized in iPadOS
- Liquid Glass has been refined and is more customizable than ever
- Performance improvements make iPadOS 27 perform much quicker
- Screen Time has been revamped for managing your child’s device use
- Brand new Siri with dedicated Siri app
- Overhauled search experience with upgraded intelligence
- Active app name now displays in status bar
- Photos improvements like slideshow customization, Shared Albums across Android and Windows, upgraded Clean Up, more
- Safari can organize tabs into topics
iPadOS 27 raises the floor to A14, M1, or later, cutting the 3rd generation iPad Air model from the compatibility list entirely.
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The iPad Pro also sees cuts. […] iPadOS 27 raises those floors to the 4th generation 12.9-inch and the 2nd generation 11-inch, dropping two older Pro models that were still supported just a year ago.
See also: iOS & iPadOS 27 Beta Release Notes.
Previously:
Update (2026-06-11): Meek Geek:
It seems arbitrary that while iOS 27 supports all iOS 26-compatible iPhones, Apple somehow has to obsolete that many iPads with iPadOS 27, given that the OS foundation, RAM capacities and SoC generations would be similarly supported.
Especially given the performance optimizations in the 27 OSes.
What’s especially punitive is that users who suffered from the iPadOS 26 performance and UI train wreck will have no recourse. This won’t be forgotten.
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Something not emphasized but maybe really impactful for those of us hopeful for iPads... sidecar allowing multitouch! So close to an iPad Pro running MacOs yet so far.
It will be forgotten, though. This is far from the first time they’ve done this, though this is perhaps the most egregious.
I’ve been burned like this many times, including several times this cycle. Makes me extremely reluctant to buy any first generation products because they always do it, sometimes to second gen too.
ProfessorPlasma where did you hear that Sidecar allows multi-touch? Do you know what kind of multi-touch support it brings to macOS 27?
