• Writing Tools in every composer. Proofread, Rewrite, make it Friendly, Professional or Concise, turn it into a List, Emojify or Translate what you've typed, in chats, captions, Scheduled Messages and Quick Replies. It never uses your daily AI actions. • New AI Features page in Settings: choose Apple Intelligence or Claude for each AI feature, and which Claude model. Writing Tools, poll options and Unread Summary can run on Claude too, so iPhones without Apple Intelligence get every AI feature with AI Credit or your own API key. • Sending photos and files: what you'd typed becomes the caption, captions get Writing Tools and emoji, and a long press on Send offers Schedule Message, plus Send Silently on Telegram. A Telegram spoiler now covers the whole selection and shows on the preview. • Select several Skills, Quick Replies or scheduled messages at once to delete them, export Skills, move Quick Replies to a folder or hide them from the widget, or cancel scheduled messages. • Picking recipients now finds Instagram and Messenger people you've never messaged, and a shared contact can go straight to a person, not only to an existing chat. • In Telegram forum topics, polls, checklists, scheduled messages and shared contacts now land in the topic you sent them from. • Claude Sonnet 5.5 replaces Sonnet 5 at the same price, and anything set to Sonnet 5 moves over on its own. Smart Reply on Claude writes drafts again; on Sonnet 5 every request was turned down. • Quick Replies can carry a poll, a location or a contact. A saved poll works in any chat, and where a chat can't take part of a reply, you see what will be sent first. • Long messages no longer fail: text past a platform's limit goes out as several messages, split between paragraphs or sentences. Messenger now allows its real 20,000 characters, not 2,000. • Telegram: Articles show formulas, tables, code with a Copy button, and photos and videos that load. Group owners and admins can set Welcome Messages for new members. Communities list all their chats, and you can join from there. • Instagram group admins can remove members and make or remove admins. WhatsApp audio stickers play their sound, and Meta AI answers that arrived empty show in full. • Scheduled messages can share products from your WhatsApp Business catalog, or the whole catalog. • The free plan's Apple Intelligence is now 5 actions a day from the start, with no unlimited first week. The 7-day free trial on every plan still makes it unlimited. • Also fixed: tab names, the attachment menu and Shortcuts confirmations were in English whatever your language; a caption typed before attaching media to a scheduled message went out unseen; and when Instagram ends your session, the app now asks you to sign in again.

• Claude Opus 5.5. The AI chat's most capable model is now Opus 5.5, in place of Opus 5, and chats that used Opus 5 switch over on their own. It is priced lower than Opus 5, and effort now starts at Medium, which Anthropic's testing puts level with Opus 5 on High. You can still raise it in the model menu. • Tools in three columns on iPad: the tool list, then its library, then the item you picked, the way Mail works. Skills, Quick Replies, Scheduled Messages and Shortcut Templates now open beside their list. • Polls, events, checklists, Quick Replies, Skills and scheduled messages open in a full-size sheet, and once you have typed something a swipe no longer closes it by accident. Only Cancel does. • Bug fixes and improvements, including tapping away from the keyboard now closing it in every chat and form.

• Two smaller plans. There used to be one paid plan, and it was priced for connecting all four messaging accounts — which most people never do. Solo covers one account, Duo covers any two, and Pro covers all four. Each has a monthly and a yearly price, yearly saves about 45%, and each still starts with a 7-day free trial. • The plans differ on one thing only: how many accounts you connect at the same time. Everything else is the same on all three — no daily limit on on-device AI, unlimited Skills and Quick Replies, as many recipients per scheduled message as you like, the premium Shortcut templates, and the option to use your own Anthropic API key. • The free plan changed too, and not all of it in your favour. Your first week of on-device AI is now unlimited — it used to be capped from day one — and after that week it is five actions a day rather than ten. Three Skills and five Quick Replies stay active instead of twenty and ten. Nothing is deleted: the rest stay in your library, and everything unlocks again on any paid plan. One account and two recipients per scheduled message are unchanged. • Nothing changes if you are already subscribed, and no existing price moved. • Changing plan tells you what it costs first. Moving to a plan with fewer accounts now warns you before it takes effect, names exactly which accounts will be disconnected, and keeps your default platform. Nothing is deleted — you can reconnect any of them later. • A little Claude credit to start with. Subscribing adds AI Credit to your balance once your first payment goes through, and the larger the plan the more it adds. Once per Apple Account, so you can try Claude without buying a top-up first. • Share from your WhatsApp Business catalog. When the WhatsApp account you connected is a Business account, the attachment menu in a chat now has Catalog. Pick one or more products and each is sent as its own product message, or share the whole catalog as a link. • Business messages now show in full. Carousels used to arrive empty, and a message with a product or a place at the top showed only a placeholder. You now see every card, the product with its photo and price, the place on a map, and a voice clip at the bottom of a message plays. • Two additions to WhatsApp button messages: a Copy Code button, which copies a code for the person you send it to, and a limited-time offer banner with an optional end date and code. Copy Code works in Shortcuts too. • Choosing an option in a business's list message now sends your choice back as a proper reply. • Birthday and photo sync ask for access to Contacts the first time you use them, instead of finding nothing to sync.

• Connections that drop now come back on their own. Moving between Wi-Fi and mobile data, or losing signal in a tunnel or on a flight, could leave a platform disconnected for the rest of the session — often while the app still looked connected and quietly received nothing. Each platform now watches the network itself and reconnects as soon as there is something to reconnect to. • A connection problem no longer costs you your link. Recovering from one could go as far as unlinking your device from WhatsApp, leaving you to pair again from scratch, and tapping Connect while offline could erase the pairing that was about to start working. Only you can disconnect a platform now. A connection stuck on "authentication in progress" also clears itself instead of needing the app force-quit, and a message that arrives after several failed reconnections is no longer saved, or announced, more than once. • The app is no longer shut down while it sits in the background. Left alone overnight it could be terminated by the system, closing every platform connection with it — so messages stopped arriving until you opened the app again. • The transcribe button is visible again. In voice notes, audio and video messages it vanished the moment transcription began, because the icon it switched to did not exist. The contact "not found" screen was missing its icon too. • Smart Reply's message picker has a Cancel that cancels. Skip used to return you to the chat and then write the replies anyway. • Quick Reply attachments work again. Opening a saved Quick Reply to edit it now lets you actually use the photo, camera, file and voice pickers — they previously closed themselves the moment they appeared — and anything you had already typed is no longer overwritten when the reply loads. • Videos in Quick Replies. You can attach a video from your library now; the old size limit turned away almost any real clip, and the file keeps its original format instead of being relabelled on the way in. • Button replies know who they are addressing. A button template containing a name variable now asks which member of the group you mean, the same way a photo or file reply already did, instead of quietly choosing someone for you. • Polls can be scheduled. A scheduled WhatsApp message to a group can now include a poll. • Files and Memories in the Agent. The Files switch now genuinely grants the folders you pick, and you can choose them for any chat rather than only inside a persona. The Memories switch is honoured, memories can be written by hand, edited and renamed, and saving one no longer discards it. • Knowledge base search moves to Private Cloud Compute, where there is room for the passages it finds — so asking about your own documents returns more than a fragment. • A tidier attachment preview, clearer error messages when something does go wrong, and the usual bug fixes and performance improvements.

• Private Cloud Compute. On iOS 27, the Agent can run on Apple's private cloud model instead of the on-device one — a much larger context window and deeper reasoning, chosen from the model picker. If you reach your usage limit, replies keep working on-device until it resets, so nothing ever stops mid-conversation. • Smart Reply can see the picture. When the message you are replying to is a photo, a sticker or an image, iOS 27 lets the drafts be written from the image itself instead of a text description of it — so a reply to a photo reads like someone actually looked at it. • Day Summary moves up to the cloud model automatically wherever it is available, so a long day of messages is summarised with far more of the conversation in view. • A smoother photo editor. Filters now apply without the stalls that could hit large photos, Cutout lifts a subject cleanly onto a transparent background, and face-mask stickers land on the right face at the right size and angle. • Bug fixes and performance improvements.

• The app is about half the size: roughly 90 MB to download instead of 175 MB, and around 220 MB less space on your device once installed. Nothing was removed to get there — every feature, setting and screen is exactly where it was. • Animated stickers and GIFs now play through a decoder built into the app instead of a large third-party media framework. They look exactly the same, use far less memory in a long sticker grid, and stop decoding as soon as they scroll off screen. • Importing a skill from the marketplace works again. The marketplace changed the address of its skill pages, which left the Import Skill button hidden on every skill; it is back, and an imported skill now arrives with its full description instead of a shortened one. • Bug fixes and performance improvements.

• Ask the assistant about several chats at once and it now works through all of them. Whatever it produces for one chat — a summary, suggested replies, cards — it produces for the others too, each labelled with the chat it belongs to, instead of answering the first and mentioning the rest in passing. Longer requests no longer stop early saying they could not be completed. • Anything the assistant drafts for you now arrives as a card you can act on instead of text you would have to retype: each suggested reply, event, reminder or contact gets its own card. • A drafted reply is never sent for you. Tapping one now opens that conversation with the text already in the message field, ready to edit and send — in the assistant chat it used to go straight out on a single tap. • Assistant replies now appear at a steady, readable pace instead of in bursts, and a long answer no longer freezes part-way through. Tables and code blocks build as they are written, with their copy button. • Reactions are reliable again: removing your own reaction works, changing a WhatsApp reaction no longer leaves the old emoji behind, and a reaction in one Telegram chat can no longer overwrite another chat's. Reactions saved by earlier versions are repaired the first time you open the app. • Profile photos now appear where they used to be blank — when choosing people for a new group or a new message, and for members of a WhatsApp group. • The app is smoother: loading profile photos, opening the assistant and refreshing the unread badge no longer hold up the interface. • Limited access to your contacts is now fully supported. If you have shared only selected contacts with the app, birthday and photo sync, home and work addresses, the contact sync switch in Settings, and contact lookups in Shortcuts and Siri all work instead of coming back empty. • A contact you share into a WhatsApp chat now saves with a number that can actually be dialled in Mexico and Argentina. • Bug fixes and performance improvements.

• AI Reply now has two assistants. "Reply Assistant" looks things up and drafts your reply; "Task Assistant" adds your calendar, reminders, contacts and nearby places. • Drafts arrive as cards you can send with a tap. • Button messages can carry a header and a footer, and the header can be an image, video or document. • Quick replies now show the media attached to a button message header. • New in Shortcuts and Siri: "Get Media from Quick Reply" hands every file attached to a quick reply to the rest of your shortcut. • Tap a quick reply in the Home Screen widget and it sends straight away. • Profile photo and birthday sync now matches on the full number, country code included, so the right details reach the right contact. • A shared Instagram story now opens straight into Instagram. • Notifications keep arriving reliably. • Bug fixes and performance improvements.

• WhatsApp music — a song shared in a chat now plays as audio, with its title, artist and artwork. • Choose who can add members when you create a WhatsApp group: everyone, or admins only. • Instagram and Messenger reels, posts and stories now show their thumbnail instead of an empty card. • A shared post that was deleted, or that its owner keeps private, now says so instead of leaving a blank bubble. • Instagram notices no longer print a raw web address mid-sentence — the link is a button. • Fewer empty "deleted message" bubbles in WhatsApp chats. • Telegram messages, live location and link previews now update everywhere in the app at once. • Voice messages transcribe more reliably, and now recognise the names of the people in that chat. • Opening a conversation from Siri, Spotlight or a notification lands on the right chat with the right title. • Sync Profile Photos is now its own action in Contacts — put your contacts' WhatsApp and Telegram photos into your address book when you want to, and merge birthdays without touching photos. • Bug fixes and performance improvements.

• AI Credits — use the Claude assistant without an API key of your own. Top up in the app; credit never expires. • Share into a chat from any app — AI Reply Assistant is now in the iOS share sheet. • Make it your default messaging app: Settings > Apps > Default Apps > Messaging. Tap a phone number anywhere in iOS and the conversation opens here. • Genmoji — make your own emoji and send it as a sticker. • Sensitive photos and video stay blurred until you tap, when Sensitive Content Warning is on in iOS Settings. Checked on device; nothing is uploaded. • A Focus filter for messages, and time-sensitive alerts now arrive as time-sensitive. • Outgoing messages are donated to Siri, so your people and chats turn up in Siri suggestions and the share sheet. • Messenger end-to-end encrypted chats now show their content and attachments properly. • Video sends keep going after you leave the app. • Knowledge Base fixes — deleted links no longer turn up in answers, refreshed pages are saved and re-indexed, failed links are clearly marked, and your documents stay available in long chats. • Media fixes across Instagram, WhatsApp and Telegram — captions and @mentions, group and channel photos, locations with a map and address, and contact cards. • Bug fixes and performance improvements.

• Apple Intelligence in its own chat — use Apple's on-device model straight from your conversation list, instead of having to open a conversation first. • Your messages in Spotlight and Siri — conversations and messages are now indexed privately on your device, so they show up in Spotlight search and Siri can draw on them for personal context. Locked, hidden and blocked chats are never included. • Stickers and GIFs from Instagram and Messenger — search the full sticker and GIF library, browse packs, and use your avatar stickers. Link one Meta account and you can send them in any chat, on any platform. • More sticker formats — an animated sticker sent to Telegram now arrives animated instead of as a still image, and shared WhatsApp sticker-pack links open right in the app. • Image Generation Tool call rebuilt around Image Playground. • Bug fixes and performance improvements.

Instagram and Messenger are here. AI Reply Assistant now connects four platforms — WhatsApp, Telegram, Instagram and Messenger — in one private inbox that runs on your device. NEW PLATFORMS • Instagram and Messenger — link your accounts and reply from the same unified inbox • Message Requests, carousels, media share cards and business link previews • Browse catalogs, cart and product details without leaving the chat • Live Activities and widgets for Instagram and Messenger • Messenger Live Updates — follow live match scores right in the conversation NEW IN CHAT • Media transcripts — transcribe voice notes and video in the thread • Translate any message in place, without leaving the conversation • Profile share cards IMPROVEMENTS • AI Personas are now called Skills • Telegram quick-reply import and WhatsApp quick-reply resync • Refreshed translations across all 22 languages • Bug fixes and stability improvements