Apple prepares for a big cleanup for iOS 27 to fix bugs and improve battery life
Apple is slowing down the pace of flashy new features to focus on what truly matters: fixing the foundations of the iPhone with a “Snow Leopard” style update for iOS 27.
Apple Prepares For A Big Cleanup For iOS 27
If you were using a Mac in 2009, you likely remember Mac OS X Snow Leopard. It was an update without many new features, but it made Macs faster, more stable, and lighter.
According to the latest newsletter by Mark Gurman (Bloomberg), Apple is set to do exactly the same for the iPhone with iOS 27, before extending this strategy to the iPad and Mac.
Following the massive redesign of iOS 26 with its “Liquid Glass” aesthetics, the software has become a bit chaotic for many users. The features are cool, certainly, but the system’s foundations are cluttered. Gurman states that engineering teams are currently combing through the OS to eliminate unnecessary code and uncover as many bugs as possible.
Complaints have been piling up for months:
- abnormal battery consumption,
- interface bugs,
- overheating without reason,
- keyboard crashes,
- choppy animations…
Rather than piling on new features atop an unstable base, iOS 27 aims to smooth the experience and restore the reliability Apple has always claimed.
Why This Return To Stability Is Crucial
This decision is not only a response to frustrated users — it is strategic. While Apple focused on more aesthetic lock screens and a “premium” interface, competition has not been idle.
Google, with Android and its Pixel devices, is rapidly pushing AI integration while maintaining a stable platform. If Apple wants to compete with Gemini and accelerate its AI transition, the iOS foundation must be impeccable.
Gurman adds that this cleanup also paves the way for future hardware… including foldable iPhones. It’s impossible to offer ultra-complex interfaces if basic animations are already choppy on a standard screen.
And then there’s the in-house AI: the new version of Siri and the mysterious internal chatbot project “Veritas” will require a much more optimized OS.
An “Boring” Update… But Necessary
This may be the best news about iOS in a long time.
In everyday use, many are noticing:
- an iPhone that overheats for no reason,
- micro-lags when closing an app,
- irregular battery life…
It feels like we’ve gone back to the Android era of a few years ago: good ideas, but heavy execution. Apple, which once dominated with its famed “it just works,” is too often close to “it works, most of the time, after a restart.”
Taking an entire year to tighten things up and optimize the mechanics? It might be exactly what iOS needed.
I would much prefer a “flat” but stable update over a festival of gadgets that ruin performance or battery life.
