iOS 27 has some exciting new Apple Intelligence upgrades coming, but you’ll need the most powerful iPhones to access some of them—and in a repeat of recent history, iPhone 17 won’t even make the cut. Here’s why.
With iOS 27, the latest base iPhone gets excluded from select features—just like in 2024
Back in June 2024, Apple Intelligence was unveiled with very limited hardware support in iOS 18. Apple said it would be available on iPhone 15 Pro or iPhone 15 Pro Max—that’s it.
At the time, that meant cutting off two of the company’s four latest and greatest iPhone models. The base iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus were not supported.
For a company that typically extends new software features to old devices for many years, it was a surprising move.
