iOS 27 and iPadOS 27 drop few devices

iOS 27 supports all iPhones that ran iOS 26, from iPhone 11 onward. iPadOS 27 drops the 3rd-gen iPad Air, 8th-gen iPad, and 5th-gen iPad mini. Apple ported an updated CPU scheduler to older devices for performance gains. Apple Intelligence remains limited to newer hardware with 8GB or more RAM.