iOS 27 adds new features across many system apps, like Wallet, Calendar, Music, and Maps. Here’s what’s new for the Messages app in iOS 27.
Apple Intelligence enables new ‘one-tap suggestions’ in the Messages app that can help you get things done or find relevant information to share.
Messages offers one-tap suggestions based on the context of users’ conversations, making it easier than ever to get things done, such as creating a reminder or a note. For example, if someone asks for photos, Messages can also help users find the right ones, recognizing keywords, locations, and people in their library to find the best options.
As seen in the image above, these suggestions will sometimes appear right below a message they’re relevant to, and sometimes they’ll appear in the top keyboard row.
iOS 27 is full of signs that the iPhone Ultra is coming this fall. In addition to code that references foldable iPhone features, the Messages app gets a new ‘Drawing’ iMessage app.
In any other year, the new iMessage app would be a curious addition. But ahead of the first foldable iPhone, it’s very obvious why the ‘Drawing’ app exists.
Apple’s latest iMessage app contains the same basic set of Markup tools you’ll find across the Notes app, Preview, and more, letting you send a quick doodle to your friends.
Any iPhone can use the new app, but it will no doubt prove especially useful on the large iPhone Ultra display. The only question now is whether iPhone Ultra will be compatible with Apple Pencil.
When messaging with your green bubble friends via RCS, iOS 27 adds some welcome upgrades.
In-line replies are now available, so you can reply to an RCS message just like an iMessage and see the same basic UI.
Tapback reactions are now properly supported in iOS 27 too. That means Android users won’t see tapbacks appear as annoying “Ryan loved an image” messages. Instead, they’ll just see the heart, thumbs up, or other reaction.
The RCS 2.7 standard, which both of these changes belong to, also includes the ability to edit and unsend messages. So we may get those RCS upgrades in iOS 27 or a subsequent update too.
Here are four more miscellaneous iOS 27 changes in Messages:
The idea of bug fixes in a major new OS version may not sound the most exciting. But Apple has done a lot of work to make the Messages app perform better than ever, and the promised refinements sound significant.
Here’s what Apple says is newly improved in iOS 27:
Which iOS 27 features and changes for Messages are you most excited about? Let us know in the comments.
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Ryan got his start in journalism as an Editor at MacStories, where he worked for four years covering Apple news, writing app reviews, and more. For two years he co-hosted the Adapt podcast on Relay FM, which focused entirely on the iPad. As a result, it should come as no surprise that his favorite Apple device is the iPad Pro.
