4 ways to get your iPhone ready for iOS 27

This week Apple introduced its new iPhone lineup, including the iPhone 18 Pro series and the iPhone Duo. The devices feature the most advanced tech that Apple has ever stuffed into a smartphone. But if you’re not in the market for a new iPhone, there’s some good news: The company also announced a release date for the new iOS 27 operating system, which will run on any iPhone that can run iOS 26. Apple says that iOS 27 will be released to the general public this Monday, September 14. Until then, there are some things you can do to help ease the upgrade and ensure that the latest software runs as smoothly as possible on your existing iPhone. Update to iOS 26.6 or later Apple included a new indexing optimization with the release of iOS 26.6, in preparation for iOS 27, that should save you lots of post-installation headaches. “Indexing” is the term for the process in which iOS goes through all the files on your iPhone and categorizes and tags them, so it can find the file you need quickly when you search for it later on. Whenever a new major version of iOS comes out, it generally reindexes your entire phone—but this process can take days and is compute-intensive. So while the indexing …