Preview on iOS 27 inherits enjoyable easter egg from iPadOS 26

When Apple launched the Liquid Glass redesign final 12 months, it additionally added a enjoyable interactive easter egg to the Preview app on iPadOS. Now, it’s bringing the identical playful ingredient to iOS 27.

iOS 27 will get an interactive loupe

When Apple launched the Preview app to the Mac in 2001, its icon featured a few pictures beneath a magnifying loupe.

Over the years, the icon went by a number of redesigns, ultimately dropping the pictures and protecting solely the loupe as a part of final 12 months’s Liquid Glass revamp.

Here’s Basic Apple Guy’s compilation of the a number of Preview icons from 2001 by 2025, as a part of their unbelievable macOS Icon History gallery from final 12 months.

Last 12 months, along with redesigning the app’s icon, Apple additionally introduced the Preview app to iPadOS 26 and iOS 26. However, solely the iPad model received a enjoyable little easter egg the place the loupe was interactive.

This 12 months, Apple is bringing the interactive loupe to iOS, letting customers slide it throughout the app’s primary display because the textual content and content material beneath it distort and reply to the loupe’s motion.

You can watch it in motion under:

Did you notice every other easter eggs on iOS 27? Let us know within the feedback.

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