10 Hacks Every iOS 27 User Should Know

If you have an iPhone 11 or newer (including the second-gen iPhone SE), you can look forward to installing iOS 27 in the fall. Apple's next big update is heavy on the AI and stability upgrades, and will likely drop sometime in September. However, iOS 27 has also been available in beta all summer . I've been running the update on my primary iPhone for nearly three months now, and during that time, I've discovered a bunch of hacks I think every iOS 27 user should know. Whether you're installing the update today or next month, you should definitely try out these useful hacks for your iPhone . Use this new feature to customize Liquid Glass Apple introduced Liquid Glass with iOS 26, and didn't hold back with its design choices. While some liked the changes, others have criticized Liquid Glass for focusing more on style over substance. In response, cApple introduced new ways to adjust and customize the design's transparency effects . That only continues with iOS 27. There's now a new slider that lets you reduce or almost eliminate the Liquid Glass effect . You can find it under Settings > Appearance > Liquid Glass in iOS 27. Move the slider towards the right to improve readability. Remove the audio message button to prevent accidental voice notes I've lost count of the number of times I've accidentally sent incomprehensible voice notes to people on iMessage. In my case, the culprit was the audio message button to the right of the text box in the Messages app. Luckily, in iOS …