Built for iOS 27. Ask Rufus picks your next book from the ones you have finished, and on iOS 27 Apple Intelligence writes the reason why through Private Cloud Compute. Plus an extra-large widget on iPhone, Visual Intelligence that opens the book you tapped, and an app that resizes on iPad and on the Mac.
ASK RUFUS
- Six cards on the Explore tab: Pick for me, Surprise me, Short and quick, A long one to sink into, A classic worth your time, Something different. Two more appear once your shelf can fill them
- Each answer is three books with a reason for each, plus one deliberately off your usual path
- The picks come from your own shelf, your ratings and the genres you return to. They are chosen on your device, in all 32 languages, with no model involved
- With Apple Intelligence (supported iPhones and languages), the reason under each book is written for you. Without it the reasons are plainer and nothing is missing
- A line under the picks always says who wrote the notes
SIRI AND SPOTLIGHT
- Say "Ask Rufus in Must Read" and Siri answers with the same picks, covers included, without opening the app
- Your library is indexed for Spotlight: search a title and it opens straight in Must Read. On iOS 27 that index is also how Siri AI can draw on what you are reading
- Siri knows which book is on screen and can answer about it
NEW WITH iOS 27
- The notes under Ask Rufus's picks are written through Private Cloud Compute, on Apple silicon, and read noticeably better
- Extra-large widget on iPhone: a shelf of your current books on the Home Screen
- Fully resizable in iPhone Mirroring on a Mac and on iPad, in every orientation
VISUAL INTELLIGENCE
- Point the camera at a cover, or open a photo, and pick Must Read. Tapping a result now opens the book, even one you do not own yet
- Better matches: the search ignores straplines and publisher names and asks our catalogue every time
READING
- A book on its last page can now be finished from the reading timer: a green Mark complete button, and a swipe from the left in What to read?
- Minutes you type when finishing are kept as a reading session
EXPLORE
- Readers in Belarus and Kazakhstan get the Russian-language shelves; readers in New Zealand, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg and Monaco get the nearest shelves in their language
- Fixed: for readers in Canada using French, the links to buy a book were empty
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