iOS 27 to offer a brand new way to deliver your notifications
iOS 27 could feature a significant change to the way notifications both appear on the display and how they are accessed.
Apple is set to reveal iOS 27 for iPhone on Monday during WWDC 2026 and we’ve got a new leak of a potentially nifty design change and a UI change that almost made it to the keynote without being revealed.
According to Bloomberg‘s Mark Gurman, iOS 27 will see notifications slide in from the left side of the screen rather than the top of the display. That sounds like it’d be a nice way to refresh the incoming notification animation.
Furthermore, the way users access the Notification Centre is set to change too. The current method of swiping down from the top of the display won’t be available anymore, due to the forthcoming “Ask” feature for the new Siri app.
According to Gurman, iPhone owners will need to swipe down from the top left corner of the display rather than from the centre of the display when the phone is unlocked. Of course, when the phone is locked, the Notification Centre is easily accessible by swiping up from the bottom of the display.
Gurman says of Notifications: “They now slide in from the left side of the screen, aligning with the new gesture system: Users swipe down from the left to open the Notification Center because swiping down from the center now opens the Search or Ask AI panel.”
Gurman’s latest report also speaks of a Find My app visual refresh, improvements to the Clean Up feature in the Photos app. Apple is also testing “natural language prompt-based editing of photos so you can ask via voice or text for specific edits, like cropping or changing colors.”
Chris Smith
