Apple finally introduced the long awaited Siri AI assistant powered by Apple Intelligence
Apple has announced the next major versions of its operating systems at WWDC 2026, including iOS 27, iPadOS 27, macOS 27 Golden Gate, watchOS 27, visionOS 27, updates for CarPlay, and new AirPods features. But the keynote was clearly led by the long awaited Siri AI overhaul, the major AI upgrade to Apple’s smart assistant that the company has been promising since 2024 and is now finally almost here, positioning Siri as a more capable AI product powered by Apple Intelligence and Google’s Gemini models.
The new version of the assistant, now called "Siri AI", will feature much deeper integration not only with iOS, but across Apple’s entire ecosystem, with system level features such as screen awareness, allowing users to ask the assistant about whatever they are seeing in any app, along with photo and camera based queries, improved AI dictation, Spotlight integration on macOS 27 "Golden Gate" for searching files, conversations, or events, and the ability to act on visual context, such as adding events from a screenshot to Calendar. Apple is also launching a dedicated Siri AI chatbot-style app, making the assistant feel much closer to popular AI assistants like ChatGPT or Gemini, with support for questions, response cards, continued conversations, text and image generation, file analysis, and multimodal tasks. With this new app, Siri also gets a new logo, Dynamic Island integration on iPhone for interacting with the assistant, and voice customization for expressiveness and speaking speed.
Siri AI launches first only in English, but not initially in the EU, with Apple blaming the Digital Markets Act. Apple Intelligence also expands across Safari with tab organization and webpage change alerts, Messages with smart replies, Mail and Calendar with natural language edits, Passwords with automatic password changes, Photos with AI powered Clean Up, Extend and Reframe, Image Playground with photorealistic generation, Shortcuts with AI-based shortcuts creation, Home adds support for up to 4K resolution security cameras and AI based detection of specific events, Lock Screen wallpapers, SynthID watermarking and more.
Beyond AI, Apple announced platform wide design, performance, search, photo sharing, accessibility, and child safety updates. Liquid Glass gets a less aggressive default look and an opacity slider, while macOS adds more uniform toolbars, edge to edge sidebars, tighter window corners, and refreshed icons. Apple also claims faster AirDrop, Mail, Apple Music, app launches, camera roll loading, Wi Fi to cellular switching, improved performance on older iPhones (all the way back to the iPhone 11), full resolution iCloud shared albums on Android and Windows, richer accessibility tools, redesigned Screen Time, child accounts, and stronger parental controls.
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- Apple unveils next generation of Apple Intelligence, Siri AI, and moreApple Newsroom • Official source
- Apple Intelligence brings powerful AI capabilities into everyday experiencesApple Newsroom • Official source
- Apple introduces Siri AI, a profoundly more capable and personal assistantApple Newsroom • Official source
- Apple previews new child safety featuresApple Newsroom • Official source
- Due to DMA, Siri AI delayed in EU for iOS 27 and iPadOS 27Apple Newsroom • Official source
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"Apple would have to give any virtual assistant direct access to users' private data" is why Apple is so angry at EU (even if EU users will still be able to use this Siri-thingy on Mac), because giving users any choice and allowing competition is worse than that time Adam bit the apple.
"Security researchers have already shown that AI systems can be hijacked to steal personal data — like passwords and photos — and to permanently alter files and account settings without a user's consent." And of course, it's not technology fault even if it happens literally every day, but EU's DMA.
It’s honestly doing more harm to Apple than anything else, fragmenting its ecosystem even more awkwardly than Android. At least Android fragmentation is mostly device based, while in this case the same devices are being artificially capped
It's not supposed to benefit apple, but the market and the user. I agree, IOS or even Macos shine bright in design compared to Android / Windows. But just saying "forcing apple to do anything is bad", especially when its about major and structural market laws, that try to prevent monopolies and apply to major tech companies, then short comments like yours sound like an apple fanboy having an outrage.
The point is you can choose. Apple or not. Well revieved or not. Good or bad. Because laws dont care about the "person", but the act. If we could have super-intelligence have jurisdiction, we could have it design everything, prevent monopolies and eliminate bad actors. But since we don't, generalized laws is all we can do. If Meta, Google, X, Microsoft, etc. shouldn't be "misusing" structures, marketshare and power, apple cant too.
This is like if you'd be forced to use google. Most people use it (mostly because of bribing browsers and apple to stay the default) and are having a wonderful time. but you don't have to. And AI will be big. So this is gonna be a big one for competition.