Siri AI in iOS 27: Everything New Apple Announced

For years, Siri felt like it was falling behind. While competing AI assistants became smarter, more conversational, and increasingly useful, Siri remained largely limited to basic commands and simple tasks.

Apple originally promised a more advanced Siri experience in iOS 26, but delays only made the gap more noticeable.

At WWDC 2026, Apple finally unveiled its answer: Siri AI, a completely rebuilt version of Siri powered by Apple Intelligence.

The new Siri is designed to understand personal context, analyze what’s on your screen, work across apps, and carry on natural conversations. Apple is also bringing Visual Intelligence, enhanced Writing Tools, and deeper system integration to its assistant.

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Here’s everything new coming to Siri in iOS 27.

A new foundation: Apple Intelligence meets Google Gemini

The story of Siri AI begins with a partnership. Apple announced a collaboration with Google that leverages the Gemini family of models to help power the next generation of Apple Foundation Models. These models are optimized to run both on-device and through Apple’s Private Cloud Compute infrastructure, enabling advanced understanding, reasoning, and multimodal capabilities across text, images, and speech.

On devices equipped with Apple’s latest silicon, a more powerful on-device model enables enhanced speech generation, improved dictation accuracy, and more advanced natural language understanding, all while keeping data on the device whenever possible.

Siri is now genuinely conversational

The biggest improvement in iOS 27 is Siri’s ability to hold natural, multi-turn conversations. Unlike previous versions, which often treated every request as a new interaction, Siri can now maintain context across an entire conversation.

For example, you can ask Siri about World Cup fixtures, follow up with questions about planning a watch party, create a menu, and send invitations without repeating the original topic. Siri understands the context and continues the conversation naturally.

On iPhone, users can swipe down from the Dynamic Island to start a text-based Siri conversation at any time.

Siri now has its own app

For the first time, Siri is getting a dedicated app.

The app stores conversation history and syncs it across iPhone, iPad, and Mac using iCloud. This allows users to return to previous conversations rather than starting from scratch each time.

Siri on Mac is built into Spotlight

On macOS Golden Gate, Siri AI becomes deeply integrated into Spotlight.

Typing a question into Spotlight transforms the search field into a full Siri conversation window that can be resized and moved around the desktop like any other app.

Users can also Control-click files, images, and text to ask Siri to summarize content, compare documents, explain information, or answer questions based on selected items.

This introduces a new level of contextual assistance directly within macOS.

Personal context and app actions

Finding information across your own apps is becoming significantly easier. Siri can now work across supported apps such as Photos, Messages, Mail, and Notes to gather information and complete requests.

Apple demonstrated Siri locating photos from a recent family trip and automatically selecting only the images containing specific people before creating a shared album.

The assistant can also perform actions across apps through App Actions.

For example, Siri can:

• Draft emails
• Edit and share photos
• Create reminders
• Add calendar events
• Complete multi-step workflows

Third-party apps that adopt App Intents will also be able to integrate with these capabilities.

Visual Intelligence: Siri can now see

Visual Intelligence gives Siri the ability to understand visual content and interact with what appears on your screen.

On iPhone

Visual Intelligence is built directly into the Camera app as a dedicated Siri experience.

Users can point their camera at objects, signs, meals, documents, or products and ask questions about them. Siri can identify items, provide information, and perform related actions.

Apple demonstrated examples such as analyzing restaurant bills for payment splitting and identifying food to provide nutritional information.

On Mac

Visual Intelligence works across on-screen content.

Users can select text, images, files, or documents and ask Siri to summarize, compare, explain, or answer questions about the selected content without switching apps.

On visionOS

In visionOS, Siri can incorporate what you’re currently looking at into the conversation.

Users can ask questions about objects, products, signs, and other visual elements within their environment, allowing Siri to combine visual understanding with spoken requests.

Apple says Private Cloud Compute is used when additional processing is required, helping maintain user privacy while enabling advanced AI features.

Writing Tools and automatic proofreading

Writing Tools are now deeply integrated throughout the system.

Users can ask Siri to generate drafts from scratch, rewrite content, summarize text, or provide feedback on existing writing across virtually any app.

When composing messages in Mail or Messages, Siri can even adapt suggestions based on the tone typically used with specific contacts.

Apple is also introducing automatic proofreading that works system-wide, including in many third-party apps, without requiring users to manually activate it.

A new voice and improved dictation

On supported devices, Siri gains more natural and expressive voices.

The assistant can vary tone, rhythm, and emphasis more naturally, making conversations feel less robotic.

Users can customize voice expressiveness and speaking speed while previewing sample phrases before selecting their preferred style.

Dictation also receives a major upgrade.

Apple says improvements to spelling, punctuation, capitalization, and overall transcription accuracy make dictation significantly more reliable across the system.

Because dictation is built directly into the keyboard, these improvements are available anywhere text can be entered.

One Siri across every Apple platform

Siri AI is coming to:

• iPhone
• iPad
• Mac
• Apple Watch
• CarPlay
• AirPods
• visionOS

Apple says the goal is to provide a consistent conversational AI experience across its entire ecosystem.

Availability

Apple will begin rolling out Siri AI through an English-language beta later this year.

Additional languages will be added gradually over time.

Some advanced features will require newer Apple silicon devices, while users in the European Union and China may need to wait longer due to regional regulatory requirements.

The future of Siri starts here

Siri AI represents the biggest overhaul of Apple’s assistant since its launch in 2011.

Instead of acting as a simple voice-command tool, Siri can now understand context, work across apps, analyze visual information, and maintain natural conversations.

The real test will come when millions of users begin relying on it every day, but based on Apple’s announcement, iOS 27 finally gives Siri the tools needed to compete with modern AI assistants.

Which Siri AI feature are you most excited to try in iOS 27? Let us know in the comments below.