iPadOS 27 Doesn't Reimagine the iPad, but It Does a Great Job With Siri

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A far better Siri and performance benefits are reasons to upgrade and try out the beta, or wait till the fall.

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I don't tend to recommend downloading public betas of Apple software unless you really want to and have a secondary device you're willing to experiment on. Apple's latest public betas for its various devices are here as expected, and I've been living with iPadOS 27 in its developer beta for a month now on the latest 11-inch iPad Air with an M4 chip. I can already tell you that this year, the benefits are subtle but greatly appreciated.

Gone are my expectations for turning an iPad into a Mac. This OS is no closer to being Mac-like than iPadOS 26 was, and Apple's tablet remains (to me) an odd hybrid of something both iPhone-like and Mac-like, yet not technically either. I've accepted it, begrudgingly, as I...

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