Four new Apple Intelligence features discovered in iOS 27 code ahead of WWDC reveal

4 New Apple Intelligence Features Found in Apple Code, Likely in iOS 27

iOS 27 is likely to introduce at least four new Apple Intelligence features that function within system apps, based on backend code discovered by Nicolás Alvarez and confirmed by MacRumors. First up, Apple is expected to lean more heavily into Visual Intelligence in iOS 27, since the company is reportedly developing AI wearable devices that will leverage the feature. Apple is reportedly working on smart glasses, AirPods with cameras, and a wearable AI pin or pendant. To that end, Visual Intelligence appears to be getting at least two new capabilities. One of them will likely let you scan a food nutrition label to get more information, which could well integrate into the Health app. Another will offer to add printed phone numbers/addresses to your Contacts. Visual Intelligence already offers to add calendar dates to your Calendar, so an equivalent feature for contacts makes sense. Elsewhere, Apple's Wallet app is likely to gain the ability to generate digital passes from scans of things like event tickets, gym membership cards and the like. Google Wallet for Android already does something similar, using AI to determine the content of a pass. Meanwhile, in Safari, we're expecting a new AI feature that will automatically name Tab Groups for users based on the contents of the tabs within the group. We can't say with certainty that the above features will work as described, since we're interpreting them from the names of individual code strings. Likewise, we do not know for sure that they will appear in iOS 27 or a future point update of the upcoming software, but given that Apple is working on a smarter version of Siri for iOS 27 with deeper integration across apps, the timing fits. Apple will unveil iOS 27 at the Worldwide Developers Conference in June, before launching in September just ahead of when new iPhone models come out.

New Apple Intelligence features for iOS 27 found in hidden code

These practical AI improvements focus on quality-of-life enhancements rather than generative features, though they remain in development and could change. Some backend, hidden code discovered by Nicolás Alvarez and confirmed by MacRumors provides insight into some new features coming to Apple Intelligence in the future (almost certainly in iOS 27, or an update to it). The first two features are for Visual Intelligence. Apple is leaning heavily into visual AI as it prepares products like smart glasses, an AI-powered pin, and AirPods with cameras. One feature lets you scan a nutrition label to get more information and possibly integrate with the Health app. There have been rumors that Apple is looking to add food tracking to its Fitness or Health apps, and reading nutrition labels would be a step beyond the barcode scanning common in current food tracking apps. Another feature would let it add printed phone numbers and addresses to your Contacts. You can already add dates to your calendar with Visual Intelligence, so this is a natural evolution of the feature. Safari is getting a minor feature to automatically name tab groups based on the tabs within. If you're a heavy user of tab groups, I guess that could come in handy. And finally, a very handy feature for the Wallet app to scan physical tickets, passes, and membership cards and produce digital versions of them within the Wallet app. Digital passes and cards are extremely handy, but not all events or businesses offer them or integrate with Apple Wallet; instead, they just send a pass via email. The ability to take a lot of those things, from gym cards to movie tickets, and add them to Wallet would be a great quality of life feature. Naturally, all of this was hinted at in backend code that is not yet ready for release. It's all to be considered very much in development, and could change or be dropped at any time. All four of these features are good examples of how useful AI is more than just chatbots and AI slop images/video/music.

iOS 27: Everything we know about the fall 2026 iPhone update

The result was one of the most popular and well-loved OS X versions of all time. Apparently, iOS 27 is going to follow the same route: there will be some new features, but much time and effort is being spent on cleaning up the code and improving performance. While the focus of iOS 27 may be on performance, efficiency, and reliability rather than new features, there is reportedly one major exception: Apple Intelligence. Apple has given up trying to get its new Siri update out as part of iOS 26, and is instead is working on an even bigger Siri overhaul for iOS 27. It will turn Siri into a full chatbot, with an interface similar to text messaging and the ability to reference past interactions. It will also integrate more fully with Apple's apps. The new Siri will be built on an entirely new foundation model that uses Google's Gemini as its base, with Apple modifications, enhancements, and guardrails on top. We don't have much information about what specific AI advancements Apple is working on or how it will be used throughout the OS and Apple's apps, yet. But Gurman reports iOS 27 will be heavy on new AI features. Recently, some back-end code suggested Apple is working on Apple Intelligence features like reading nutrition lables, adding phone numbers and addresses to contacts, adding physical tickets and passes to Wallet, and auto-generating names for tab groups in Safari.

These Four Apple Intelligence Features Might Be Coming in iOS 27

You may be able to scan real documents to turn them into digital passes in Wallet, and Safari may soon automatically name Tab Groups. My most anticipated iOS 27 feature is not a new feature at all: If the rumors are true, Apple will use its next major iPhone update as an opportunity to squash bugs and improve stability across iOS. The company has already started work on this front ahead of iOS 27 -- with iOS 26.4, Apple fixed some key issues with the iPhone's keyboard, which users have complained about since the company initially rolled out iOS 26., and launched new settings to tone down the look of Liquid Glass in response to negative feedback from some users. But while I hope that iOS 27 is mostly a stability update, I know it won't be totally absent any new features. In fact, the rumors suggest Apple will finally unveil its big AI Siri overhaul with this update, which has been a long time coming. But in addition to AI Siri, Apple has a small handful of other Apple Intelligence features in the works. It's possible iOS 27 could be both a stability update, and Apple's biggest investment in AI thus far. As reported by MacRumors, backend code suggests that Apple is working on four new Apple Intelligence features for iOS 27. Nicolás Alvarez made the discovery, and MacRumors says it was able to verify the findings. The first two of these features concern Visual Intelligence, Apple's AI powered tool for exploring the world around you (or the contents of your iPhone's display). Based on the backend code, it seems Apple is working on a feature that lets you scan a nutrition label on a food item to learn more about it. MacRumors guesses that this feature could work with the Health app -- perhaps to log new food and include all of its nutritional stats. in addition to this nutrition scanner, Visual Intelligence may be able to add phone numbers and addresses in print to your Contacts app. This could be especially useful when taking someone's business card: Rather than hold onto the card and punch in the details by hand, you could simply scan the card with your iPhone, and iOS could add their details to a new entry in Contacts. Apple Intelligence may also soon ship with the ability to create digital passes for the Wallet app based on physical items. The idea is, you use your iPhone's camera to scan a concert ticket or a rewards card, and iOS automatically generates the pass to store in Wallet. A similar feature exists on Google Wallet over on Android. Finally, Safari could be getting a new AI feature, too: When you create a Tab Group, iOS may automatically name it for you, based on the contents of the tabs. Maybe if you collect a bunch of tabs of different recipes, iOS will name your tab group "Dinner Ideas," or if you move a collection of places you'd like to visit on your trip to New York, iOS will call the group "NYC Vacation Plans." While MacRumors confirmed these are the features alluded to in the code, there are no guarantees these features will arrive in iOS 27 or be exactly as described here. We won't know what iOS 27 really looks like until Apple takes the stage in June for WWDC.