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iOS 27.2 reveals new features coming to Apple Music, CarPlay, more
iOS 27.2 beta 2 arrived today, and so far seems to have minimal user-facing changes. But code for iOS 27.2’s beta releases points to new features in the works for Apple Music, CarPlay Ultra, and more.
Whenever Apple releases new beta software, we tend to discover changes in two ways: through user-facing features active in the software, as well as underlying code changes that point to forthcoming changes.
With iOS 27.2, there were a variety of new features available for testing from day one, like the all-new Health app, user profiles in Apple TV, Siri AI expansions, and more.
But users skilled at examining the underlying code found even more changes in the works.
For example, X user pdfu discovered that Apple Music will soon add live countdowns for new album releases.
Here’s the new album release countdown on iPhone, coming soon to Apple Music.Featuring a very satisfying numeric text content transition. https://t.co/SIwlvlt9lB pic.twitter.com/stuBUYPoWJ
Another discovery by pdfu in iOS 27.2 beta code involves the Shortcuts app.
Shortcuts’ new ‘Describe a Shortcut’ feature looks like it will soon gain support for including actions from third-party apps.
Describe a Shortcut could soon support actions from third-party developers.Currently, the feature only supports Apple-developed actions. With a new feature flag in iOS 27.2 and macOS 27.2, the model can now choose actions from third-party apps.To enable:sudo mkdir -p… pic.twitter.com/sR6OJMwADy
Another noteworthy reveal from iOS 27.2 code involves CarPlay Ultra.