Apple’s iPhone camera has been basically the same story for years: you point, you tap, you get a photo.
The controls exist, sure, but they live buried in menus most people never open. So the genuinely surprising thing about iOS 27 is that Apple is treating its own camera app like a blank canvas you get to fill in yourself.
The update reportedly introduces a widget-based system in which you pull up a transparent tray from the bottom of the Camera app and choose which controls to display.
Flash, exposure, depth of field, resolution, timer, photo styles, all of it becomes optional. You arrange them across the top of the interface in whatever order makes sense to you.
The people who never touch those settings lose nothing. The people who live inside them finally get a setup that works the way they think it should.
Photo mode and video mode will carry separate widget sets, so your preferences for one do not bleed into the other. Apple is adding a dedicated Siri camera mode that pulls Visual Intelligence directly into the app.
Right now, that feature is available only behind the Camera Control or Action buttons. Having it as a named mode inside the camera itself is a meaningful shift in how Apple wants people to think about AI on their phones.
Away from the camera, Safari is getting a redesigned start page with four tabs at the top: Favorites, Bookmarks, Reading List, and History.
The Weather app is adding a Conditions panel to flip between temperature, rain, and wind data without digging through modules.
And in a quiet admission that the Liquid Glass redesign went a step too far, Apple is folding search back into the main tab bar in apps like Music, Podcasts, and Apple TV rather than keeping it isolated.
The keyboard is also getting a small but satisfying animation where keys slide up from the bottom when it appears.
And for anyone who has ever fumbled an accidental widget move while rearranging the Home Screen, iOS 27 will finally give you undo and redo controls for that process.
Apple is set to show all of this off at its Worldwide Developers Conference starting June 8, so the full picture should land pretty soon.
