iOS 27 Will Reportedly Be Like Mac OS X Snow Leopard

In his Power On newsletter today, Bloomberg‘s Mark Gurman reiterated that iOS 27 will be similar to 2009’s Mac OS X Snow Leopard, in the sense that one of Apple’s biggest priorities is bug fixes for improved performance and stability.

At WWDC 2008, Apple showed a presentation that said Mac OS X Snow Leopard had « 0 new features, » as it opted to focus on performance and stability improvements. Technically, the update did include some smaller new features, but Apple was overwhelmingly focused on bug fixes and under-the-hood changes on the Mac.

« We’ve built on the success of Leopard and created an even better experience for our users from installation to shutdown, » said Apple’s former software engineering chief Bertrand Serlet. « Apple engineers have made hundreds of improvements so with Snow Leopard your system is going to feel faster, more responsive and even more reliable than before. »

iOS 27 will still get some new features too, including a more personalized version of Siri. The update should be announced in June and released in September.