iOS 27 AI Cheat Sheet

Where to find it: Settings → Privacy & Security → Impersonation Risk Detection → turn on Share with App Developers.

Try this: Turn it on, then check Recent Activity later to see which apps have actually requested a risk check.

Important limits: It only works inside third-party apps that have added support. Turning it on does not automatically protect every banking or payment app. Apple does not publish a complete list of supported apps. Changes can take up to 24 hours, and “Unknown” risk does not mean a transaction is definitely safe.

Where to find it: Safari → open a webpage → Page Menu → Notify Me → describe what to watch for. You can also change how often Safari checks.

Try this: “Notify me when this price drops below RM500” or “Tell me when registration opens.”

Important limits: Needs an Apple Intelligence-compatible iPhone. The page has to be readable and stable enough for Safari to detect the requested change. Website logins, changing layouts or blocked content can affect the result.

Where to find it: Open Safari's tab view or a Tab Group and choose the option to organise tabs by topic when it appears.

Try this: Open several pages for one trip and let Safari separate flights, hotels and things to do.

Important limits: Needs Apple Intelligence. The grouping is a suggestion, so check the result before closing or moving anything.

Where to find it: Safari → open the webpage → Page Menu → Describe Extension → describe what you want. Safari checks the App Store first, then offers to create one if there is no match.

Try this: “Add a button that saves recipes from this website” or “Make the text larger and hide the sidebar.”

Important limits: Needs Apple Intelligence, and usage limits may apply. Test the result before relying on it. A generated extension can misunderstand the page or stop working if the website changes.

Where to find it: Update to iOS 27, go to Settings → Siri, then follow the Siri AI setup if it is available. You can talk to Siri, use Spotlight or open the dedicated Siri app.

Try this: “Find the email with my hotel booking and add the check-in time to my calendar,” or ask about something already visible on your screen.

Important limits: Siri AI is in beta, starts in English, needs an Apple Intelligence-compatible iPhone and may have daily usage limits. App actions depend on what each Apple or third-party app supports. Always check important dates, bookings and messages before acting on them.

Where to find it: Settings → Apps → Phone → Apple Intelligence & Siri → turn on Show When Calling. Then call a business that matches information already on your phone.

Try this: Call an airline when you have a matching flight booking in Mail, Wallet or Calendar.

Important limits: Apple says a card may appear for certain businesses. It depends on the phone number being recognised and relevant information being found. It will not trigger on every hotline. Chloe tested an airline hotline in Malaysia and it did not appear for her.

Where to find it: Shortcuts → tap + → describe what you want the shortcut to do → test it → ask for changes or edit the steps yourself.

Try this: “When I leave work, message my partner that I'm on the way and include my ETA.”

Important limits: Needs Apple Intelligence. Test every generated shortcut before using it with real messages, files, payments or smart-home controls. Cloud models in Shortcuts may have usage limits.

Where to find it: Open the email in Apple's Mail app. If Mail detects a useful action, a suggestion appears in or near the message. Tap it to review before adding it.

Try this: Open an email that says, “Let's meet Thursday at 3pm,” and look for a Calendar suggestion.

Important limits: The new suggested actions are English-only and need Apple Intelligence. They work in Apple's Mail app, not automatically inside every third-party email app. Check names, dates and time zones before saving.

Where to find it:

• Calendar: tap +, then type something like “Coffee with Sarah next Tuesday at 2pm.” Review the suggested fields.
• Reminders: create a reminder and type something like “Feed the cat every evening at 5pm.”

Try this: Turn a messy plan into a complete event without filling every field one by one.

Important limits: Needs Apple Intelligence. Ambiguous phrases such as “next Friday” can be interpreted differently, so check the date, time, recurrence and time zone.

What they do:

• Spatial Reframing changes the composition or apparent camera position after you took the photo.
• Extend creates believable content outside the original edges, useful for straightening or changing aspect ratio without a tight crop.
• Clean Up removes distractions. iOS 27 improves it for larger objects and more complex gaps.

Where to find them: Photos → open a photo → Edit → choose Reframe, Extend or Clean Up.

Try this: Turn a portrait photo into a wider post without cutting off the subject, or remove a stranger from the background.

Important limits: Needs Apple Intelligence, and usage limits may apply. Generated areas can invent details, distort faces, hands or text, or make a misleading image. Check the full photo before sharing it as a real moment.

Where to find it: Home → More → Home Settings → Apple Intelligence → turn on video descriptions for each camera and Reduce Notifications.

Try this: Search for “delivery person left a package” instead of scrubbing through hours of clips.

Important limits: Requires a compatible Home camera, a supported home hub with current software, an Apple Intelligence-compatible device and at least a 2TB iCloud+ plan. Video-summary camera limits depend on the iCloud+ plan. The homeowner must enable the feature.

Where to find it:

• On screen: take a screenshot, open the preview and use the Visual Intelligence options.
• Around you: open Camera and use Siri mode on supported devices.

Try this: Screenshot an event poster and add the date, time and location to Calendar, or point Camera at a meal and ask what it contains.

Important limits: Needs an Apple Intelligence-compatible device. Available actions depend on the content, language, region and third-party services. Always check event details before saving them.

Where to find it: Tap in a text field or select existing text → Writing Tools. If Siri AI is available, choose Write with Siri or ask Siri to draft or revise the text.

Try this: “Turn these rough notes into a polite WhatsApp message, but keep it short.”

Important limits: Writing Tools need Apple Intelligence. Write with Siri depends on Siri AI, which is beta and English-first. AI can change meaning or invent details, so reread before sending.

What they do: Image Playground creates images from descriptions, photos and people in your library. Genmoji creates custom emoji. iOS 27 adds stronger image quality, more styles including photorealistic options, natural-language and touch editing, and personalised Genmoji suggestions.

Where to find them:

• Open the Image Playground app and tap New Image.
• In Messages or another supported text field, open the emoji keyboard and use Genmoji.

Try this: Make a custom Contact Poster, Lock Screen wallpaper or reaction emoji based on an inside joke.

Important limits: Needs Apple Intelligence. Image Playground can use photos from your library, and some styles can use ChatGPT only with your permission. Usage limits may apply. Generated images can be inaccurate, especially with text, logos or real people.

Where to find it: During a call → More → Call Recording. After the call, open Notes → Call Recordings → open the recording → Transcript or Summary.

Try this: Record a work call, then search or copy the transcript instead of relying on memory.

Important limits: Call recording started before iOS 27. Everyone hears an announcement when recording begins. Recording availability depends on country or region, and you should get consent. Apple lists Malay for recording, but not for call transcription. Current transcription languages include Cantonese, Mandarin, English variants including Singapore, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese (Brazil) and Spanish variants. AI summaries have a smaller language list and need an Apple Intelligence-compatible iPhone. Check transcripts before relying on them.

Where to find it: During a call → More → Hold Assist. You can also go to Settings → Apps → Phone and keep Hold Assist Detection on so iPhone can offer it automatically.

Try this: Use it while waiting for customer service, keep your ringtone on, then return when iPhone rings.

Important limits: Hold Assist arrived with iOS 26, not iOS 27. It works on iPhone 12, iPhone SE (3rd generation) or later, but not in every country, region or language. English (Singapore) is currently listed. It does not record the call, and the temporary transcript is discarded when the agent connects.

Where to find it:

• Phone: during a one-to-one call → More → Live Translation → choose both languages.
• FaceTime: turn on Live Captions; translated captions appear when supported.
• Messages: open the conversation's translation controls and choose the languages.

Try this: Call someone who speaks a supported language and hear or read the translation while you talk.

Important limits: Live Translation arrived with iOS 26. It needs Apple Intelligence and downloaded language packs. Phone and FaceTime currently support one-to-one calls in Mandarin Chinese, English (UK/U.S.), French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese (Brazil) and Spanish (Spain). Malay is not listed. Messages supports more languages than Phone and FaceTime. Accuracy can vary, so do not rely on it for emergencies, legal advice or medical decisions.

Where to find it: Shortcuts → create or edit a shortcut → search the action list for Apple Intelligence actions or model actions.

Try this: Make a shortcut that takes copied text, turns it into three bullet points and saves them to Notes.

Important limits: Intelligent Actions arrived with iOS 26. Model output can vary. Cloud models may have usage limits, and you should review any automation before it sends, posts, deletes or changes something.

Where to find it: Use Apple's Mail app. Open a message or thread to see its summary, look for Priority Messages in the inbox and tap Smart Reply when offered.

Try this: Open a long travel or work thread and read the summary before deciding whether you need the full message.

Important limits: These existed before iOS 27 and need Apple Intelligence. They only work in Apple's Mail experience and supported languages. Summaries can miss context or turn a joke into a fact, so open the original before making an important decision.

Where to find it:

• Open or select the source text → Share → Reminders → review the suggested items.
• In a Reminders list → More → Auto-Categorise.

Try this: Share an online recipe to Reminders and add its ingredients as a shopping list.

Important limits: These are existing Apple Intelligence features. Suggested items can miss quantities, dates or context. Auto-Categorise works best with updated iCloud Reminders; some features are unavailable with other account types.

Where to find it: Phone → Voicemail, or open the missed call and look for the summary when available.

Try this: Scan a long callback request to see the caller, reason and next step before listening.

Important limits: This existed before iOS 27 and needs Apple Intelligence. Voicemail itself depends on carrier and region. Apple currently lists languages including English (Singapore), but not Malay. Listen to the original before acting on money, dates, addresses or urgent requests.

Where to find it: Photos → Search → describe what you remember.

Try this: “Video of the puppies running around the living room” or “Chloe wearing a yellow dress by the beach.”

Important limits: Needs Apple Intelligence and works best after Photos has finished indexing. Results depend on what is visible and who or what you have named. Do not treat a missing result as proof that the photo is not in your library.

What they do: Notification Summaries condense long or stacked alerts. Priority Notifications move likely important alerts to the top. Reduce Interruptions Focus tries to allow urgent messages through while silencing less important ones.

Where to find them:

• Settings → Notifications → Summarise Notifications or Prioritise Notifications.
• Settings → Focus → + → Reduce Interruptions.

Try this: Summarise a busy group chat while using Reduce Interruptions during focused work.

Important limits: These existed before iOS 27 and need Apple Intelligence. A summary can be wrong, and an important alert can be deprioritised. Keep emergency contacts and genuinely time-sensitive apps explicitly allowed.

Where to find it: Notes → open a note → Attachments → Record Audio → tap the Transcript button. Open the recording and tap Summary when available.

Try this: Record a lecture, meeting or interview, then search the transcript for one topic.

Important limits: Audio transcription works on iPhone 12 or later in supported languages. Apple currently lists English, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese, but not Malay. Summaries need Apple Intelligence and have their own language limits. Always check names, numbers and quotes against the recording.

Where to find it: Safari → open a webpage → Page Menu → Summarise.

Try this: Summarise a long article, then open the full page for the claims or sections you actually need.

Important limits: This existed before iOS 27. The option only appears on supported pages and needs Apple Intelligence. A summary can leave out caveats, so do not use it as a replacement for the original source when accuracy matters.