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.