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Lee rounds off the OS 27 series with watchOS 27, and while there is no dramatic overhaul this year, Apple Watch has become noticeably better at putting the right thing in front of you. Press the Digital Crown now and suggested apps sit at the top, chosen from what the watch thinks you are most likely to want at that moment, as it learns from what you have just been using. Siri AI arrives on your wrist, too, adapted for the smaller screen but carrying the same conversations you started on your iPhone or Mac.

There are also improvements to the Smart Stack, a new Find My app, and more. It's what Lee calls a conscientious update.

Following on from the first two OS 27 videos, Lee rounds things out by taking a look at some of the features that have come to Photos, Safari, and Notes, as well as a handful of smaller tweaks that you may have missed otherwise. Photos has some great editing improvements, with the ability to Extend a photo beyond its physical constraints and adjust the perspective with Spatial Reframing.

Safari allows you to organise wayward tabs by topic, create extensions with no coding knowledge at all and also set up notifications for web pages.

Then there are the bits and bobs, such as changing the alert volume for alarms so they don't mirror the ringtone, resizing of iPhone apps on iPad and much, much more.

Following on from part one, Lee picks up the OS 27 tour with the parts of Siri AI aimed squarely at getting things made.

There is writing generated from nothing more than a description, refined and then critiqued on request, and a much improved Image Playground that now does photo realistic results and lets you remove, move and add elements to a picture after the fact. Another welcome update is that Genmoji can finally understand what you are describing!

Additionally, f you find yourself daunted at the mere idea of creating your own shortcuts, you definitely want to check the end of this video, all about Shortcuts and how much more user-friendly it's become!

It is that time of year again, and this time Lee is doing it differently. Rather than covering iOS, iPadOS and macOS as three separate updates and videos, this first part of this OS 27 series follows the features themselves as they move between iPhone, iPad and Mac, since that's increasingly how Apple builds them.

The bulk of the episode belongs to Siri AI, which has changed more than any other part of the update. Lee looks at how Siri holds a conversation across follow-up questions, how it draws on personal context from your emails, messages and notes, how it understands what is on your screen, and how it now acts on what it finds rather than just describing it.

There is a dedicated Siri app with a saved history, and an optional hand-off to ChatGPT. This video also shows you what Visual Intelligence can do with a camera pointed at everyday objects as well as printed documents.