Welcome to 9 to 5 Mac Daily for Tuesday, May 26, 2026. I'm your host, Chance Miller. We are sponsored this week by card pointers.

Leading off today, we have new rumors about what to expect from watchOS 27 for Apple Watch, which will be announced in just two weeks at WWDC.

Bloomberg reports that this year's watchOS 27 update will focus largely on stability,

performance, and smaller refinements rather than introducing major new features.

In particular, Apple is said to be working on improvements to heart rate tracking

to make the feature more consistent and more reliable.

Meanwhile, we first heard about Apple's Project Mulberry around this time last year, and it was described as an AI agent that provide health insights based on your Apple Health data and Apple Watch data.

Users would also be able to share their camera feed with this agent, and it could be used

to provide pointers while a user is working out.

This feature was initially supposed to roll out with a redesigned version of the health

app in iOS 26.4, but it was then pushed back to iOS 27 while the team scaled back its efforts.

Now, Bloomberg says, it might be delayed even further into the iOS 27 release cycle.

The effort was scaled back after Apple's Eddie Q took over the health group, and Q is not yet convinced that the current version of Project Mulberry lives up to Apple's standards.

As such, Bloomberg reports that the endeavor likely won't launch until later in the iOS 27 cycle.

This leaves Apple seemingly without any major new health initiatives to announce at WWDC,

but we'll have to wait and see for sure to know if that's accurate.

Next up today, while a dedicated AirPods app does not seem to be in the cards for iOS 27,

Bloomberg reports that Apple is working on software improvements relating to how users can modify settings for AirPods and AirPods Pro.

Bloomberg says iOS 27 will significantly change the layout of the AirPods menu in the Settings app,

designed to make it more functional, better organized, and more streamlined.

The AirPods setting screen automatically appears at the top of the Settings app when you have a pair of AirPods connected to your phone. But over time, the layout of those controls inside that screen has become quite cluttered and overwhelming. Apple has added so many new features to AirPods over the last few years, like head gestures, hearing aid functionality,

sleep detection, and more. And each new addition has basically been bolted on to the same settings UI that dates back to the original AirPods. So it sounds like Apple is finally giving

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