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iOS 27 celebrates your friends’ birthdays with fireworks

New in iOS 27 is a birthday reminder that means if you are on a call with someone, your iPhone will tell you if it’s their special day with fireworks! The gift is still on you, though.

Smartphone screen showing an active call interface with circular buttons for audio, FaceTime, mute, more, end call in red, and keypad, plus a date widget reading Today, 11 Aug
Whether you remember to call them, or they passive-aggressively call you, iOS 27 will make sure you know it’s their birthday.

There may not be a smaller addition to iOS 27, but the Phone app’s birthday reminder is a really nice touch. In the current betas, if you call someone, the Phone app checks the contact card you’ve got for them.

It does exactly the same if they call you, and it always has, as that’s how it displays their name and probably a contact photo. But now it does one more thing.

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