Last week, Apple officially released iOS 27 to everyone. The update comes with many new security features, which is nice given how lackluster iOS 26 was in that area. However, there’s one new anti-scam feature in particular that targets an area Apple has never explored before and could eventually be massively beneficial to users.

The feature is called Impersonation Risk Detection. All in all, it’s meant to catch users in the middle of a scam. Impersonation Risk Detection in iOS 27 Settings.

There are many different scenarios in which this feature could be triggered, but one of the more likely ones is a threat actor posing as a bank’s fraud department and walking a user through moving money into a “safe account” or resetting their password. Types of situations where security features like Face ID and two-factor authentication aren’t much help. When in a supported app, and you do something like send a payment or change your account password, the app can now ask your iPhone for a read on the situation. iOS 27 will then look at previous interaction patterns, timing, context, and even basic sensor data to determine whether the actions taken are legitimate.

According to Apple, Impersonation Risk Detection doesn’t look at content in Photos, Messages, or Mail for context. The feature doesn’t look at the point of intrusion. And the only thing an app receives is a single word: “Unknown,” “Medium,” or “High.”.