• A tall Bookshelf widget on iOS 27: the book you're reading, large, with your next four below it. Tap any book to open it • Book covers keep their color in StandBy and on tinted home screens • Read Aloud shows a spinner while the voice gets ready, instead of a pause button that hasn't started yet

• Bookmarks: tap the bookmark button to mark a page, and find them all beside Contents. They sync with your CrossPoint reader (firmware 1.4 or later) • New reading controls: drag the bar to move through the book, with the chapter shown as you go, undo a jump, and find everything else in one menu • Show progress as a percentage or as pages • Play from Here: select text and Read Aloud starts there • Pronounce As: fix how Read Aloud says a word, for one book or all of them • A new Read Aloud voice, PocketTTS, with 17 voices, on more iPhones • Make your own voice: read a passage aloud or import a recording, and Read Aloud reads books in that voice • Read Aloud picks up from the sentence where you stopped, and the lock screen shows the chapter • Reading position syncs reliably with current CrossPoint firmware, and books open where your reader left off

• Recaps: come back to a book after a while and Apple Intelligence catches you up on the story so far, written only from the pages you've read, so nothing is spoiled. Tap the recap button while reading for one anytime, and choose when they appear in Settings › Recap • Pop-up messages and a few labels that always showed in English are now translated • Clearer wording throughout Settings

• Read Aloud's neural voice now pauses naturally between sentences, and a little longer between paragraphs • Books you open in CrossPort from Files, AirDrop, or Share now show up in your books with their covers, ready to read • The neural voice is offered on iPhone 13 and later, which can read with it without long pauses

Read Aloud gets a new voice: • Neural voice: a natural-sounding voice that runs entirely on your iPhone. Download it free in Settings › Read Aloud (English books) • Create your own voice: read a passage aloud or import a recording, and Read Aloud reads in that voice • Read Aloud shows the book's cover and chapter in Now Playing and on the Lock Screen • Fixed the last page of a chapter sometimes showing shifted to the side

Made for iPhone Duo, plus much more: • A new book reader: page-curl turns, two-page spreads in landscape and on iPhone Duo, and layouts that work around the fold in book and laptop poses • Read Aloud: listen to your books with each word highlighted and pages turning on their own, even with the screen locked • Library feeds: browse and download books from your Calibre library and catalogs like Project Gutenberg • Siri and Shortcuts: continue reading, check your progress, or send a book to your CrossPoint reader • A redesigned book page that takes its colors from the cover • CrossPort now opens to your books and finds your reader in the background

Wallpaper previews now include the X4 Pro, X3 Black, and X3 White.