Apple Will Reportedly Add Bill-Splitting Feature to iOS 27

iPhone users may soon find it easier to divide the restaurant bill when dining out with a group of friends.

Apple is readying a new feature in iOS 27 that will allow users to photograph a receipt, assign items on the receipt to different people and generate payment requests, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman. The new feature will be tied to Apple's peer-to-peer Apple Cash feature in the Wallet app, which lets users send, receive and request money directly through their iPhone, iPad, or Apple Watch without a third-party app.

The feature is expected to be announced as early as next week at Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference, Gurman wrote Monday.

Since its introduction as Apple Passbook in 2021, Apple Wallet has slowly become one of the most important apps on the iPhone. Users can store debit and credit cards, gift cards, digital car keys, airline boarding passes, insurance cards,...

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