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Report: Apple Has Held Back Three iOS 27 Features Seen in Internal Builds

The withheld features could be switched on later or unveiled with new iPhone and Apple Watch hardware to stage the rollout and match device capabilities.

Apple's iOS 27 comes with a ton of new features, but Apple may still be hiding a couple up its sleeve.
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Why Apple Left Its Smartest New Feature For Siri Out of the WWDC Keynote | Image: apple

Overview

  • Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reported on Monday that Apple has kept three iOS 27 features out of its WWDC announcement even though they appear in internal employee builds.
  • The three items are a simplified Modular‑style watch face, a redesigned customizable Camera app, and an Extensions framework that would let Siri route queries to third‑party chatbots.
  • Independent checks of the public iOS 27 and watchOS 27 developer betas found none of these features, so their wider availability remains unconfirmed by Apple.
  • The reported Extensions setup includes a chatbot picker and an App Store section and would require vendors to get entitlements, which could enable models like ChatGPT, Gemini, or Claude to plug into Siri under Apple’s controls.
  • Observers say holding the features back would let Apple match software to new hardware, limit regional or privacy risks, and give the company time to finalize developer rules before a likely September reveal.