Apple iOS 27: 4 must-try new productivity features, from a Siri AI calendar shortcut to Notes app perks

After months of beta testing, the iPhone’s newest operating system, iOS 27, is now available. This year, Apple focused on artificial intelligence features, smaller improvements, and bug fixes, making it a more subdued update than in years past. But that doesn’t mean iOS 27 lacks truly useful enhancements that can help boost your productivity throughout the day. Here are four of our favorites. Siri is finally good enough to be your assistant It’s no secret that Siri, Apple’s personal digital assistant that has lived on the iPhone for nearly 15 years, has never been very useful, especially compared with modern-day chatbots like OpenAI’s ChatGPT or Anthropic’s Claude. But iOS 27 includes a completely revamped Siri, transitioning it from a legacy digital assistant to an LLM-powered agent, capable of having persistent, context-aware conversations that can not only help with your questions, but also carry out time-sucking admin work. For example, I can ask Siri what my week looks like, and it will provide the results from my calendar. I can then follow up by asking it to perform an action I might ask a human assistant to do, for example, “Can you email Jessica to remind her of these eve…