iPad Stuck in Guided Access After iPadOS 27? How to Get Out
On iPadOS 27 the Home button can stop working inside Guided Access. A force restart gets you out without erasing anything, and a quick test stops it trapping you again.

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On iPadOS 27 the Home button can stop working inside Guided Access. A force restart gets you out without erasing anything, and a quick test stops it trapping you again.
With Siri AI on, macOS 27 routes Writing Tools through Siri and Proofread misses errors. Turning Siri off brought the old tools back for owners.
iCloud Photos syncs, it does not back up. Where your photos can still be, in the order to check, and the full-storage catch that can empty Recently Deleted.
There is no single switch any more. Siri AI, the summaries and the smaller features each turn off on their own, and Screen Time can block them together.
It is a real Apple address, and it can still be faked. Apple gives two checks that settle any email from it: your billing address and your own purchase history.
Route and distance are there but speed is not. Turning Motion Calibration and Distance off and on again, on the iPhone, brought it back for two owners.
On one site it is the site, so enter nothing. On every site it is your device, and owners fixed it with the clock, VPN profiles or the DNS.
Volume and Siri work, but a single press will not pause. A restart brings it back for a while, and holding the button for Siri covers the gap.
Confirm the restarts in Analytics Data, allow one after the iOS 27 update, then let Apple run diagnostics. Phones that failed were repaired or replaced.
A faint grid over your videos that was not there while filming. Three quick checks show whether the file is damaged, and so far owners say it is playback, not the camera.