Everything announced at WWDC 2026 as Apple kicks off the Siri AI era
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| This was Tim Cook's final WWDC as Apple CEO. Credit: Ian Moore/Mashable |
Apple used its annual Worldwide Developers Conference on Monday to unveil a sweeping set of AI-powered updates to its software platforms, headlined by a ground-up rebuild of Siri. The new assistant, branded Siri AI, is the centerpiece of iOS 27, iPadOS 27, macOS 27, and visionOS 27 — and represents Apple's most ambitious push yet to make artificial intelligence central to how people use its devices every day.
SEE ALSO:Everything we learned about iOS 27 at WWDC 2026
But the announcement came with a significant caveat: Users in the European Union won't get the full experience on iPhone or iPad, at least not yet (or ever), thanks to an ongoing standoff with European Union regulators over the Digital Markets Act.
You'll have to wait until the fall for Siri AI, iOS 27, and new Apple Intelligence features to make their public debut, but here's everything we learned at WWDC 2026.
Siri's AI rebuild is finally here
Apple has completely reimagined Siri from the ground up. Now called Siri AI and powered by Apple Intelligence, the assistant is designed to be more conversational, more context-aware, and far more capable than its predecessor. According to Apple, it can draw on a user's personal messages, emails, and photos to surface relevant information — finding a restaurant a friend mentioned in a text, for instance, or pulling a hotel confirmation number out of an old email.
The rebuilt assistant also taps into broad web knowledge to answer questions on virtually any topic, and users can extend any response into a back-and-forth conversation with follow-up questions.
Siri AI gets a dedicated app for the first time, which syncs conversation history across devices via iCloud — so a conversation started on a Mac can be picked up on iPhone or Apple Watch. It also gains deeper Visual Intelligence capabilities, with the feature expanding beyond iPhone to iPad, Mac, and Apple Vision Pro. On iPhone, a new Siri mode built directly into the Camera app lets users point their phone at something and get information or take action on it — including splitting a bill via Apple Cash or getting nutritional info about food. On Mac, a keyboard shortcut lets users select anything on screen and query Siri about it directly.
Voice customization gets an upgrade, too, with new pace and expressivity sliders that let users tune how Siri sounds. The assistant is also expanding to CarPlay and AirPods, and Apple Watch users can initiate conversations from their wrist.
Siri AI will enter developer beta today and roll out to users later this year, initially in English, on devices running Apple's latest software across iPhone 16 and later, iPhone 15 Pro, M1-and-later iPads and Macs, and Apple Vision Pro.
New parental controls and child safety tools
Apple also used the keynote to preview a significant expansion of its parental control features, framing the updates as tools to help families build healthier digital habits rather than simply restrict access.
At the center of the update is a revamped child account setup experience. According to Apple's press release, parents can now choose exactly which apps a child can access from the start, beginning with just a few essentials and expanding over time. A new Ask to Browse feature extends the existing Ask to Buy system into Safari, requiring kids to get parental approval before visiting any new website across iPhone, iPad, and Mac.
Communication controls are getting an upgrade, too. Parents can now require approval before their child connects with any new contact over Messages, FaceTime, or Phone. The existing Communication Safety feature, which detects and blurs nudity in messages, will now also flag and block gore or violent content in shared images and videos.
SEE ALSO:Amid protest, Apple announces 'Ask to browse,' other child safety tools
Screen Time has been redesigned with a cleaner dashboard, giving parents an at-a-glance view of their child's device usage and most-used apps, with the ability to make adjustments on the fly — extending time in an app, or locking things down during dinner. New Time Allowances let parents set category-level limits, with age-based guidance informed by expert research built in as a starting point.
Apple also launched a dedicated child safety website at apple.com/child-safety to help parents navigate the tools.
The announcements come as the broader debate over how to protect minors online continues to intensify across the industry. Age verification laws are proliferating at the state level, and a broader fight is playing out in Washington over who should bear responsibility for keeping kids safe — app stores (Apple and Google), developers (Meta, Spotify, X, etc.), or both. Apple's move to deepen its own parental infrastructure adds another layer to that conversation, even as the legal and regulatory landscape remains unsettled.
A design refresh and under-the-hood speed bumps
Apple also spent time on the fit-and-finish improvements coming to its software platforms this fall.
Liquid Glass, the translucent design language Apple introduced last year, is getting a readability-focused tune-up. The material now diffuses light more effectively, and a new slider in Settings lets users dial the effect anywhere from fully clear to ultra-tinted. Toolbars have been unified across apps, sidebars now stretch edge-to-edge on Mac, and icons have been sharpened with a new refracted look throughout the system.
On the performance side, Apple says the numbers are significant. According to the company's press release, apps on iPhone and iPad launch up to 30 percent faster, photos load up to 70 percent faster after being taken, and AirDrop transfers are up to 80 percent quicker. Browsing and transferring files between external drives and iPad is now up to five times faster — on par with Finder on Mac. Search in Spotlight, Photos, and Mail has also been rebuilt for better stability and more relevant results, with Mail getting a new ranking system to surface better Top Hits.
Apple Intelligence spreads across core apps
Apple Intelligence is no longer a standalone feature set — it's woven into nearly every major app in the iOS 27 ecosystem. From browsing to messaging to home security, the throughline is the same: describe what you want, and the system figures out the rest.
Safari
Safari gets some of the most practical upgrades in the bunch. The browser can now automatically group open tabs by topic — if you've been researching a weekend trip, for instance, it'll pull those tabs together without being asked.
A new Notify Me feature lets users set Safari to monitor a specific webpage for changes, such as a product restock or price drop, and send a notification when something shifts. The Passwords app gains a related capability — it can now automatically navigate to websites and update compromised or weak passwords on a user's behalf. And with Describe an Extension, users can generate a custom Safari extension just by explaining what they want it to do.
Messages, Mail, and Phone
Contextual suggestions are getting smarter across Apple's communication apps. Messages can now surface one-tap actions based on conversation context — if someone mentions needing photos, it can help find the right ones from your library. Mail's suggestions can now trigger actions in third-party apps, and Smart Reply in both apps can now match a user's personal writing style. A new Phone app feature called Call Context automatically surfaces relevant information — like a confirmation number from an old email — when you call a business, and does so entirely on-device.
Calendar and Shortcuts
Calendar can now create and modify events through natural language input, automatically identifying contacts, locations, and generating a title as you type. Shortcuts gets a similar treatment with Describe a Shortcut — users can explain what they want to automate in plain language, and the app assembles the required steps on their behalf.
Home
The Home app gets a pair of meaningful AI upgrades for HomeKit Secure Video users. Related notifications from cameras are now batched into a single updating alert rather than a flood of individual pings. The app can also generate text descriptions of video sequences and let users search through camera footage by describing what they're looking for.
Photos gets a powerful editing overhaul
Apple Intelligence is also making significant inroads in the Photos app, with a new suite of editing tools that Apple says are designed to enhance images while preserving the integrity of the original moment. Photos edited with AI will automatically carry a hidden SynthID watermark identifying them as altered.
The most technically ambitious of the new tools is Spatial Reframing, which lets users recompose a photo after the fact by dragging to shift perspective — as if they had moved the camera before taking the shot. Apple says the feature draws on spatial modeling work developed through Apple Vision Pro, and it will only generate new content in areas where the perspective has actually changed.
The Extend tool lets users expand the borders of an image to add breathing room around a subject, fix a crooked horizon, or adjust aspect ratio — with Apple Intelligence filling in whatever's missing at the edges. The existing Clean Up tool, which removes unwanted objects from photos, gets a significant quality upgrade with more realistic results even in complex scenes.
Image Playground, Apple's AI image generation tool, is adding photorealistic output for the first time, powered by a new generative model running on Private Cloud Compute. The app also gains more flexible editing — users can describe changes or use touch to select and modify objects directly. Generated images now include a hidden SynthID watermark, and the tool has expanded beyond Messages to support Lock Screen wallpapers and Contact Posters.
When can you try the new tools?
The developer beta of iOS 27, iPadOS 27, macOS 27 Golden Gate, watchOS 27, and visionOS 27 are available now to users with an Apple Developer account, to be followed by a public beta in July. You can look for the public launch of the new generation of operating systems in the fall, following the annual iPhone launch event in September.
Keep in mind that not all iPhones and MacBooks will support iOS 27, macOS 27, and the new Siri AI.
SEE ALSO:These 29 iPhones are getting iOS 27: Is yours on the list?
For more WWDC 2026 news, follow our live blog to see all of the latest announcements and surprises from the annual Apple event.
Topics Apple Apps & Software Artificial Intelligence iOS Siri
What are you most excited to see at WWDC 2026? For me, Siri 2.0 is top of the list — Apple's voice assistant has been subpar for far too long.
ReplyDeleteDitto on the new Siri, Axel. Curious to see how they differentiate it or build upon what was shown at WWDC 2024.
DeleteLiquid Glass makes the experience more hampered. Literally a step backwards in design and usability. Very negative. It’s the worst misstep Apple have made since announcing AI before they had it and releasing hardware very recently “made from the ground up for AI” that cannot on deliver support AI. .
ReplyDeleteI got an idea let’s keep just trickling out information that we developed 5 to 10 years ago maybe 20 years ago so we can keep charging people for a new phone every year. I don’t think so. No more Apple still no folding phone still no iPhone ultra still no iPad ultra still just boring Apple.
ReplyDeleteIt will be old technology by the time it comes to Europe time to switch to Android
ReplyDeleteSo it was all just about AI? Doesn't seem like I missed anything.
ReplyDeleteHmmmm… do I want Siri to rummage through all my messages, apps, and everything on my screen 🤔 think it’s time to jump ship 😅
ReplyDeleteGoogle has lost its mojo, why team up with a loser?
ReplyDeleteso basically Apple announced the Apple version of copilot?
ReplyDeleteThe only update on Siri and Apple Intelligence I want to hear is that they’re both gone.
ReplyDelete12 mini mobile user here. Waiting for the fold phone. My phone has to fit in my pocket
ReplyDeleteApple just made lots good products redundant, with an update most people don’t want or need, there should be two versions with or without AI and Siri.
ReplyDeleteIs spell check fixed?
ReplyDeleteI didn’t watch that to learn about what new Siri crap they are poisoning us with. I wanted to see what new HARDWARE thrh have improved on or invented.they
ReplyDeleteFor me the biggest winner is Apple Maps, everything else, meh
ReplyDeleteGreat review! Also, did you lose some weight? You're looking trim, sir!
ReplyDeleteTariffs slow hardware development, what a surprise. Nobody smart ever saw that coming.
ReplyDeletegreat content as always
ReplyDeleteParty like it’s 2024
ReplyDeleteFrom Australia: "Every other week", here in calendar we actually have fortnight as a repeat option along with week and month etc. I often wondered what Americans said instead of fortnight.
ReplyDeleteDon’t care about or want AI on my phone. Just want to opt out.
ReplyDeleteWhat I want is a new AirPort. How many years has it been since we had one?
I don’t care, I won’t use it or allow it to access my information. Apple, I’m more concerned about privacy and you selling my data.
ReplyDeleteFor us poor folks who do not have IP15 and up What exactly will our SIRI be like? Surly we wont still have the current ,fairly usless version we have at present? ( add your own words to describe just how usless it is). Many of us are just not able to afford the funds to upgrade and will have to make do. If the new version's have "on phone and web content" as required why cant lesser models have it too? It is all encrypted any way just the ratio will vary (with the lag that may occur) So make that a virtue and explain "it will take a mo to complete any action due to current phone and internet capabilities ". And i read that even IP15 (and to a lesser extent 16) will have a lesser version of what SIRI can do. Any way thanks for the update
ReplyDeleteIt was a short and sad loss of lusting for inanimate plastic-mania none wanted to talk about.
ReplyDeleteDystopian over all these surveillance tools firmly planted and with no way of opting out.
ReplyDeleteApple has gotten lamer and lamer with their iOS releases
ReplyDelete1:48 I don't need someone to talk🤦
ReplyDeleteI want an assistant, who stops telling me, he can't do simple tasks, like open an app and handsfree a function for me🙄
you seems have loss some weight
ReplyDeleteno hardware news. m5 mac studio?
ReplyDeleteApple needs to Hurry up with M5 Mac Mini that’s is the only thing I am interested in
ReplyDeleteThanks, so much better than the CNET supercut
ReplyDeleteHe has made a great new product ?
ReplyDeleteCouldn’t care less about Apple Intelligence and Siri. Siri is a thing I use to set timers so I know when my food is done cooking.
ReplyDeleteAll the important points without the cringe. As usual, a job very well done here.
ReplyDeleteApple will have to prove to us that trust and safety will actually happen. I do think Apple is industry leading in many areas but not in trust and safety. It's one of the areas Apple have severely messed up in recent years. Apple has spoken on the subject before but their actions did not align with their words. We shall see if their actions are actually based on trust and safety or if this is just more empty promises.
ReplyDeleteI’ve had this on my iPhone since I’ve bought the new 17 I don’t know why they’re saying it’s just now coming out. I have AI that tells me what text messages saved without having to read them. I’ll break it down and summarize it and do all these things I never signed up for
ReplyDeletesame hotel as Marques. But his video is better.
ReplyDeleteThought the production was way understated for them. Maybe this was on purpose, trying to be "humble" after all the broken promises? Nothing was presented that was a surprise or would register as a "wow!". The feedback I am getting is a lot of angry Apple Watch Series 9 owners. Apparently they will not receive the iOS 27 update. Apple, this is total BS; are you trying to get rid of the watches that have pulse ox capabilities? Only 3 yrs old it should be included or a big trade in value given. Bad look Apple! I was shocked that they didn't make a better closing scene, one that sends Tim Cook off and welcomes the new guy. As a creator I was writing the ending in my head, pretty much the last 20 minutes of the presentation, I had 3 endings that would've been epic! They decided to go with boring and an unfinished closure. Here's to iOS 27 being stable, less frustrating, and being useful! 🥂
ReplyDeleteLight normal usage 15pro 2 yrs (90% battery capacity) uses almost the whole battery in 8 hrs. When I bought it it used 50%. Make the OS better and more efficient don’t add thing and make it WORSE
ReplyDeleteWhat a load of rubbish. When will the new Siri AI be available in the UK
ReplyDeleteWhat a waste of time i can’t wait to get annoyed at seri and googles love child
ReplyDeleteThey already exhausted the "new AI feature" hype. Now they are working to catch up!
ReplyDelete8:35. Dump this Liquid Glass shit. It’s a total waste of programming space.
ReplyDeleteI'm sure they've been working VERY hard on new pride wall papers and (pride) watch faces! Very innovative company there, resting on their laurels!
ReplyDeleteA notch is still a notch, no matter what you call it or how you try to “hide” it in plain sight. 😢
ReplyDeleteMore Apple promises and gimmicks...and on an on and on😒
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely nothing new😂😂😂😂😂 thumbs down
ReplyDeleteis Siri now capable of understand different languages? It's so useless when I want Siri to play certain song or album in Spanish and it does a horrendous job. I hope the experience gets better.
ReplyDeletelooking thinner my friend
ReplyDeleteApple is MORIBUND.
ReplyDeleteSince Steve Jobs left, Apple has been feeding off the corpse. Every year they wheel the carcass onto the stage, put fresh makeup on it, and tell us we're witnessing the future.
"Liquid Glass"? Give me a break. It's Aqua with a facelift. Apple is regurgitating design concepts from the earliest days of OS X and presenting them as revolutionary breakthroughs. The audience is expected to applaud because the glass is shinier this time.
And Siri? Siri was supposed to be Apple's AI revolution. Instead, it was like shooting a blank inside your wife: all anticipation, no result, dead on arrival. Years of promises, years of delays, years of excuses. While the rest of the industry races ahead, Apple keeps explaining why the real Siri is coming next year.
The keynote itself felt like watching a high-budget version of The Stepford Wives. Every executive wore the same lithium-drip smile, enthusiastically explaining how party-planning features and minor interface tweaks were somehow changing civilization.
Apple doesn't have an innovation problem. Apple has a leadership problem.
The company needs to be gutted at the top.
Right now, it's an insulated bubble of overfed Bay Area rich wackadoos congratulating one another for recycling old ideas. They mistake consensus for vision. They mistake marketing for innovation. They mistake incrementalism for genius.
They set out to design a horse and end up with a camel.
The result is predictable: products without vision, software without direction, and keynote presentations that feel more like corporate therapy sessions than technological milestones.
Apple continues to disappoint.
This keynote was no different.
Uninspired.
Directionless.
A company that once invented the future now spends its time repackaging the past.
Everything looks nice, but how can I disable it?
ReplyDeleteVery underwhelming for any EU customers.
ReplyDeletelol no. Everyone showed up for performance improvements. Who cares about Siri & ai. iOS 26 is a steaming pile of garbage.
ReplyDeleteYa really thought it was going to be a great improvement 😂😂
ReplyDeleteThe missing info is what worries me. I suspect Apple will allow users to access SiriAI for a few queries/tasks per day for free. If you want to use it more you'll need to buy a SUBSCRIPTION. Apple will have to charge for this because of the massive overhead to support it.
ReplyDeleteNice recap. Thanks!
ReplyDeleteI literally couldn’t care less about Siri or Apple Intelligence
ReplyDeleteCared enough to write a comment. Weirdo
Deletestupid reply 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
DeleteAI is the wrong term to add to SIRI, it's also sad to see how much it's collaborating with Gemini as unreliable as it has been.
ReplyDeleteI hope there’s a way for you to ask Siri to Shazam a song and then add it to your library in one prompt
ReplyDelete“Hot Dog, No Hot Dog” IYKYK
ReplyDeleteCool. I can also just go to Chrome and use google ai there, without either digging into the brains and intestines of my phone/cyber life. What I was waiting for was the fold phone.
ReplyDeleteOh look, screen monitoring. Same thing Microsoft backed off of from their Copilot… people the 1984 book was a warning, not a manual. Also, you’re going help pay for all this with all the AI centers getting major electronic bill breaks. I’ll stay on 26 til the devices death thanks. But … 🤷♂️
ReplyDeleteFinally, the summary I’ve been waiting for. The right information in the right order thank you. I found the Keynote nauseating, flowery and tedious. Getting worse each year.
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing.
Lame, boring
ReplyDeleteExtremely underwhelming stuff where a lot of the time was awkward waiting for a reply to a prompt and by quite a few disturbing looking persons. And what was all that energetic walking of Federighi about? One of the times he seemed to emerge from the bushes after having completing some business.
ReplyDeleteI mean, it was all just strange.
i hope they fix Siri, right now its so fustrating
ReplyDeleteI can’t believe they are limiting most of this to iPhone 17 and up. That is messed up ever for Apple. I get requiring a newer iPhone but I got mine last year and now it’s excluded?! Really?!
ReplyDeleteIf Siri AI uses Gemini, and they have our information, wouldn’t Google be exploiting our data?
ReplyDeleteWHERE IS THE APPLE TV
ReplyDeleteSo my 16 Pro Max, that was “Built for Apple Intelligence” is obsolete before the “real” Apple Intelligence is launch.
ReplyDeleteWOW, thanks apple. 1500€ wasted.
Last Apple watch I will ever own was my Ultra....never going to take my money ever again apple.
ReplyDeleteWhat have you been doing for the weight loss?? Looking great my man..👌🏾
ReplyDeleteHonestly not being able to do anything with AI in any language except English is a major disappointment, with Gemini being capable of working with many languages
ReplyDeleteWell apart from the AI part, at least they are doing the optimization phase
ReplyDeleteNo need to change my iPhone 15, nice!
ReplyDeleteA lot of people will be leaving Apple after this keynote
DeleteIn my opinion, Siri AI was painfully slow in the demos. 🙈
ReplyDeleteYeah I’ll stick with Gemini
Delete10% of the video for intro BS. 👎 Then lot of unnecessary bla bla bla. Poor video.
ReplyDeleteAm I the only one who doesn’t give a single flying fuck about AI? I just want a stable and complete smartphone experience, nothing else
ReplyDeleteWhen, and a big when, Apple Intelligence / Siri hits full maturity it will easily be the most adopted AI assistant to the everyday consumer.
ReplyDeleteYes, i believe they mangled the release 2 years ago bc for once they didn’t follow the Apple playbook of sit and wait and release something late but better than everyone else.
I truly believe Apple is best positioned to deliver a true AI personal assistant that is accessible across the ecosystem of devices. Some of the most annoying parts of the Apple model will become their strength. To deliver a true AI assistant you need deep OS integration, ecosystem of devices, standardized dev kits, massive hardware install base, capable hardware.
I’m excited to see what next week brings but even if its small steps in the right direction they are better positioned than anyone to deliver this at scale. And make something that brings AI mainstream to the everyday user.
Caveat, i am not an Apple fanboy (but recent mac mini buyer) by any means but I do work in AI and follow the industry closely and I’m just really interested in what Apple can deliver.
DeleteI don't want another "coming later this year" presentation. Show the new Siri running on real devices.
ReplyDeleteI expect to be able to turn AI off, nothing else
ReplyDeleteWill Ternus lead this WWDC?
ReplyDeleteNo
DeleteThe waitlist from the last WWDC beta was a joke and you got through in like 5-10 minutes. This likely won’t be different
ReplyDeleteWhile I'm a bit tired of the whole AI story, it's undeniable that this is an important point, at least for investors, if not yet for the average consumer, who uses chatGPT only as a "turbocharged Google." This WWDC is critical, and Apple knows this better than any of us. They're going to present something good this time. And maybe even better than the initial plans, because now the market is more aware of the impact, possibilities, and limitations of AI for the consumer. I'm not a finance expert, but I find recent news that companies like OpenAI and Anthropic barely reach $5 billion in revenue in a quarter kind of insane. And all this stuff is getting more and more expensive and still not generating money. I mean, these are entire companies spending hundreds of billions on infrastructure and barely managing to generate more revenue than Apple Music and Apple TV combined, which aren't even that popular services.
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ReplyDeleteIf Apple had successfully gotten Siri to be the competent background companion they presented in 2024, the discourse around AI could’ve been very different today. They had the opportunity to shape a positive narrative around the tech, and completely blew it. Now, people are burnt out by subpar AI implementations, and they’ll have to fight an uphill battle against that bad reputation.
DeleteAlls that to say, I hope it’s good, too..but I also get why people aren’t particularly excited by it.
Miserable because what they promised two years ago is still not finished?
DeleteMiserable because they were lied to by a trillion dollar corporation.
DeleteNew to Capitalism? Welcome!
DeleteYou're being lied to by corporations all the time. Get over it. Software is hard, and they're not under any obligation to you. If you're so skittish a customer that you're not willing to be patient about minor improvements to their OS -- they don't care. Apple wants to take their time in any frothy space, and then come in with something that costs 40% more and is 80% as good. And then they will sell that to the world, including you. When they are good and ready and probably not before.
Really?!?!? I thought Apple was the only corporation that lied to me!!!!
DeleteSeriously?!? Other corporations lie too???? Unbelievable!!! What am I going to do????
Go troll somebody else, Skippy. Get a life.
Woah Gurman leaked everything 😭 I’m hoping for a few surprises on Monday, hopefully in the iPadOS direction
ReplyDeleteA critical WWDC. It has to prove that the transition towards Ternus is already taking shape and doing well, though both showing new directions and stability.
ReplyDeleteWould be nice if Ternus brings back live WWDC audience.
What? It doesn’t have to prove a thing about the CEO transition, nor will it.
DeleteEvery single Apple executive transition has been visible or displayed at a WWDC since the 90s.
DeletePlease do explain
DeleteWWDC 97 was Jobs' first public display and hints at new directions and projects.
Delete'09 was first under Cook temp leadership and a strong show of continuity and business as usual.
'12 was continuity as well, followed by risky new takes at '13 (iOS 7 especially) following Cook executive shake up and Forstall departure
'20 started transition to ARM that completely erased doubts following Johnny Ive departure.
Signals are always sent at WWDC and this one will be definitely interesting in this regard. Either Ternus is full on "continuity" like Cook initial onboarding, or there are already signs of new directions. Both would say something about Apple's new stance.
Anyone else can't help being excited even though they know damn well this will be underwhelming and Apple won't be able to actually deliver?
ReplyDeleteNo.
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Delete“Apple plans to let users swipe down from the top center of the iPhone to launch a new “Search or Ask” interface. (The Notification Center will now open with a swipe down from the top left.) “
ReplyDeleteNot a fan of opening control center with a swipe down gesture either and they are adding a third feature to open to the same top area.
I’ll be honest - I always thought that it was “swipe down from the left” for notifications. Mind you, I don’t do it very often. Almost all of my apps have notifications turned off, and I tend to deal with any that arrive when they arrive - and often on my watch rather than my phone
Deletethat would be stupid, you can already open siri by double tapping the nav bar, which is way easier than reaching for the top of the phone
DeleteDoes nothing for me
DeleteDisappointment. Expect disappointment 😀
ReplyDeletePlease just don't become to Microslop.
ReplyDelete“Apple has labeled the new Siri as a “beta” and “preview” internally, suggesting that the assistant won’t be marketed as fully finished software when it’s released later this year. The original Siri held the same description for two years. There is also the possibility of a waitlist of some sort for people who want to try new features, an approach used with the initial launch of the Apple Intelligence platform in 2024”
ReplyDelete:-/
Other than that, the rumored focus on bug fixes/battery life/minor redesign to macOS is very good to hear.
No sign of the rumoured Liquid Glass slider eh?
ReplyDeleteI am really looking forward to see with Apple has come up with using Gemiini.
ReplyDeleteI will be curious to see how all this gets paid for. I am guessing it will come out of the cost of buying an iPhone?
So ultimately they will have to increase the iPhone cost.
I do not think they will be able to run much on the actual device. THere is just not nearly enough memory to do that on an iPhone.
Ultimately they are going to have to pay billions if not 10s of billions to Google as they are who will be hosting the model on the TPUs.
There was some discussion that Google would use Nvidia hardware I saw yesterday but I do not believe that. Apple tends to be a pretty cheap company as they should and there is no way they are going to be willing to pay the massive Nvidia tax that Google would have to pass through if using Nvidia hardware.
Have you seen Google's Gemma models? Nothing to laugh at
DeleteNo. Nothing to laugh at but still very limited.
DeleteLLMs just take way too much memory to get much out of them on a mobile device like a phone.
BTW, there was another redditor that suggested they were not going to use Gemma on the device but instead going to use a Gemini nano model. I am not sure if this is true as I had always heard they were going to use Gemma.
But I am now leaning towards that it will be Gemini nano on the device and not Gemma.
I wouldn't put it past iPhone silicon to run some pretty powerful models. But who knows. Also Gemma is very very good now at a lot of things. Agentic etc
DeleteThat is not the issue. Memory is the huge problem for Apple.
DeleteThem being so skimpy on it is really biting them in the butt here.
8GB and 12GB is not nearly enough to do really much of anything. They really need to bump it up to 64GB.
But then there is the huge problem with getting memory. Apple has done a pretty poor job of securing RAM.
"Apple Is Losing Its Negotiation Prowess For DRAM Chips To Hyperscalers; New Goal Titled Towards Securing Supply, Not Getting The Best Prices"
https://wccftech.com/apple-losing-negotiation-prowess-to-hyperscalers-for-dram-chips/
Just like the MacBook Air with only 8gb of ram oh wait
DeleteMacBook Airs come with a minimum of 16GB of RAM. But anyone buying one should opt for the 32 GB.
DeleteRAM in the AI era is so much more important. Apple been on the lean side of offering memory is going to bite them in the butt some.
I agree about RAM. My snarky point was MacBook Airs during the "only buy 16GB" of ram heyday were either being directed by super nerds who think the general public need 16GB for school, or they're used to Windows.
DeleteThe 8GB MacBook Air M1 onwards are still amazing machines, and I can imagine a bespoke apple silicon model if they're going to do it right.
"The 8GB MacBook Air M1 onwards are still amazing machines"
DeleteI completely agree. I am actually a bit jealous that I have a M2 one with only 8GB RAM that I use when I travel and my wife I got her an M4 one this past Christmas and she has 16 GB.
But for me it is not a big deal. I do all my AI stuff using Gemini in the cloud and I am fine with that.
I think the entire privacy thing is more of a marketing thing and not very real.
I am good with Apple just using Google Gemini in the cloud using Google TPUs instead of Nvidia hardware.
Depends on what you're doing but some gemini models are pretty cheap to run. There's a reason Google can provide it free to use for every google search that's run. Probably using flash-lite.
DeleteMost consumer use is pretty low-level we're not talking about running 7 parallel coding agents.
If they did find some use for the big models they'd probably include it via iCloud subscription if I had to guess.
I expect something halfway competent, but only because they've used Google's model. I really don't have any expectations anymore.
ReplyDeleteWhat I'd really like to see is a way to swap it out with any 3rd party AI, but I doubt we're that lucky.
Reading through the article, most of it was stuff that I couldn’t see myself using
DeleteI dunno, it still seems like “write an email for you” is the pinnacle of this kind of tech and I’d rather write my emails myself
in the article:
Delete> Apple is also planning to open up Siri to outside chatbots beyond OpenAI’s ChatGPT, which is already integrated into the software. In the Search or Ask view, users will be able to toggle between chatbots. Apple has tested this new approach with Claude and Gemini, in addition to ChatGPT.
so… possibly?
AI Siri and IOS27 pretty Sure
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ReplyDeleteGonna be honest, I expect my eyes to roll so hard they fall out of their sockets more than once because of AI fatigue.
ReplyDeleteBut who knows, maybe Apple will pull a miracle out of their ass and make something of AI that is actually more of use than a hindrance.
Im fine it comes out next year.
DeleteNobody is doing AI right at the moment
Why do you think or what about AI do you experience as a hinderance? what software and phone do you use?
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DeleteI’ve used Chat GPT, Claude, Gemini, and Grok in different ways to help me with work. All lead me into corners that are entirely useless. Sure, I can swing stuff together more quickly, but it’s all been lower quality and a more frustrating process than when I was just doing things on my own or with other actual professional coworkers. I’ve used AI integrated services that specialize in my field and the only benefit I’ve found is that it allows me to make a sub-par (passable) product with much less work. It’s a great out for mediocre people to avoid improving themselves.
Then I’ve seen AI integration in apps and services that don’t even have a tangible benefit from AI forcing new pricing tiers and expediting enshittification. On Apple’s end, I’ve taken on the creator pro trial to see if it provides any benefit with iWork and so far the only thing I found kind of useful were the stock images, which I don’t even need and isn’t even an AI thing. I tried AI prompting a keynote, and I shit you not it would have taken me more time to work out “the right” prompt to get what I want than to just build it how I want it the first time.
Then on top of that, AI is making all my hobbies absurdly expensive, it’s effecting other people’s well being, and the proliferation of its infrastructure is affecting others’ quality of living. It’s out of control and I’m still waiting for it to actually make anything other than a Google search a little better for all of us who aren’t tech millionaires.
Also, AI generated art is soulless, and it’s muddying people’s ability to appreciate what real art is.
I’m on a 16 Pro, which was literally sold to me on false AI hype.
Yeah to me the biggest benefit is that is it a calculator on steroids, thats where it shines... Tile a bathroom, give it measurements of each wall and subtract a window, and it's done in seconds with transcribing your voice.
DeleteIn the beginning it was a fun buddy, AI could actually make me laugh since it was unhinged, then the guardrails came on and now its corporate humor at its best. All creativity disappeared.
As an assistant it is absolutely garbage, ask it to plan a trip or find flights and literarily everything goes wrong from shitty restaurants it picks to flights that does not even exist.
I think people enjoy AI at the moment since Google search is completely broken, so it feels refreshing - but it is actually a step back in time, at this point... all emails sounds un-personal and cringe. Spellchecker at best I would say.
AI is good for stock images and stock music, since that type of content is soulless to begin with. And AI was finally the death rattle to social media which will die in 2026.
for me-the whole thing tbh. most tech companies are jamming in AI features where they can as it makes investors think they’re innovative. most of the time these features are just getting in the way. i barely use siri. i have no need for image playground and id much prefer to make my own rubbish drawings by hand. i have completely switched off gemini features as they are just in the way and regurgitate information i already know in a much less dense way.
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DeleteThanks!
Big thanks
DeleteProbably AI, Siri and iOS 27
ReplyDeleteThe future isn’t just AI inside phones — it’s moving toward AI agents built into smart glasses.
ReplyDeleteApple and Microsoft are integrating AI into daily apps, but this is only the beginning. The real shift will be wearable AI agents that use the lenses in your smart glasses as your primary screen. You’ll be able to open applications, run multiple programs simultaneously, and control them simply by speaking or looking.
An AI agent is an intelligent system that can understand your intent and carry out complex tasks on your behalf — such as booking travel, managing your schedule, researching information, analyzing data, or even running multiple applications at once based on a single command.
It will even be able to interpret what someone is saying to you in a foreign language and translate it in real time — and vice versa — allowing you to communicate effortlessly with people who don’t speak your language.
In essence, the AI agent will be the closest thing we have to a personal robot in the future.
Because of this capability, the smartphone and laptop will become secondary backup devices — especially important if satellite communications ever go down.
The smartphone’s days as our primary device are numbered.
In the current AI era, progress is no longer defined only by model intelligence but by how deeply systems integrate into everyday workflows across industries. The shift from experimentation to infrastructure means organizations must rethink cost, governance, and reliability together. Competitive advantage increasingly comes from execution speed, not just innovation, as adoption becomes the real differentiator in real world outcomes overall.
ReplyDeleteLet's go!
ReplyDeletewheres the other half of mark
ReplyDeleteEverything announced in 2 seconds:
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Everything announced in 2 letters
DeleteWell, that's a short list 😉
ReplyDeleteCan we make Gemini are default for Siri ? It was heavily rumored.
ReplyDeleteLike there is an announcement video tomorrow right.
ReplyDeleteLike this was not good at all. It was just a "siri is going to work now" announcment.
I have so many apple products but this lack of "intelligence" is wearing my patience very thin.
You weren’t paying attention then.
DeleteMy phone and iPad are dramatically faster, smoother and overall way more responsive.
Very good update.
I have a mac studio, ultimate. It never has been THIS slow after installing the update, so i dont know where you get it from it should be "dramaticly faster"??
DeleteSiri is SO slow it looks like she is googling for an answer to your questions.
Photo app keeps crashing when using the "new" features.
Everything sounds great! Can’t wait for the public batas. Just missing new hardware announcements. Guess I’ll have to wait til October to upgrade my M4 Mac Studio max to the M5 version. Then I am good for 5 years on new hardware. Won’t get the M6.
ReplyDeleteSiri gets her Quinceañera? Thanks Google 🙄 Hopefully you can still disable Siri.
ReplyDeleteI have the beta iOS 27 and the only changes I notice are more detailed Settings and Maps apps, the removal of the whole sides of the phone glowing with Siri and a new wallpaper. Is the new Siri app part of the wait list? 'Cause it ain't on my beta, which is running on an old iPhone 14 Pro Max
ReplyDeleteOnly two or three things that registered with me: making phones work faster, more editing functions in Photos and being able to turn Liquid Glass transparency down and tweaking the look of Mac OS Golden Lake. The rest meant nothing to me.
ReplyDeletehttps://imgur.com/a/OKzLt8h
ReplyDeleteThis is the main feature we wanted them to show
It looks like they produce a children's TV show. In that picture...and in MacOS lately🥁
DeleteA whole lot of nothing
ReplyDeleteno hardware. meh.
ReplyDeleteYou dont know what WWDC stands for?
DeleteYes I know.
DeleteAnd if they had kept it that way...
I haven't seen it mentioned yet but there's a developer video talking about usage limits. So private cloud compute will have daily usage limits and there will be subscription tiers as part of iCloud+. Also mentioned here:
ReplyDeletehttps://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/06/apple-intelligence-brings-powerful-ai-capabilities-into-everyday-experiences/
One question: can I opt out of all of these AI “features”.
ReplyDeleteI’m okay to be left behind, just spare me AI slop in my private space.
And the battery burn that this AI will cause. I mean, you really have to be into your iPhone to get all of those advantages which will be a huge tax on your battery. Also, I wonder when all the bugaboos will be worked out. Maybe next summer?
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ReplyDeleteWhat a waste of resources and time.
ReplyDeleteAs a longtime freelance translator, editor, and musician, and someone who’s used Macs for the better part of two decades, I’m not sure how anything addressed at WWDC 2026 is really going to make much of an impact on my workflow.
ReplyDeleteThe Siri AI features sound mostly gimmicky, to be honest. I don’t think that Apple has really presented any interesting workflows that would measurably enhance the quality of anybody’s life. I am curious to see how the Apple Intelligence-based Shortcuts app will live up to its hype, since I could really appreciate a tool that would help me to manipulate text in more flexible and intuitive ways.
Overall, I think that it’s also nice to hear about the performance improvements, even though my iPad mini 5 is excluded from this. It feels like with this update, Apple devices are getting “smarter“ but not much more useful. Apple Intelligence was never supported on my iPhone 14+, anyway, so the only area where Apple’s highly-touted new AI features might even register are on my Macs.
looks like Apple is doubling down on monthly revenue and ignoring hardware.
ReplyDeleteI also think the "one number shared across two phones" was some bean-counter's idea to get wealthy people to buy two phones. "Bring your fashionable iPhone Air to the Formula 1 race and use your iPhone 17 Pro for high-intensity crypto trading from your GulfStream"
Hands down, the worst WWDC announcement in the history of Apple.
ReplyDeleteRemember when they used to be exciting?
DeleteI used to be so obnoxious with my wife after a presentation like WWDC. "Look sweetie!!!" as I show her a flood of things I'm excited about.
DeleteThis year... nothing worthy of mentioning.
I can’t remember them all. Wouldn’t the one with releasing Snow Leopard been pretty dull? Mind you back then I think more hardware was disclosed … or was that a separate event in the summer? It feels like a lifetime ago.
DeletePlease everyone turn off Siri!!!!
ReplyDelete(Jobs would want it as well)
I was hoping WWDC would be in person. How do we know the Siri crap is real this time?
ReplyDelete10 mn for what is going to take me less than 10 seconds : Google is taking over Apple with Gemini renamed Siri Ai.
ReplyDeleteI like some of it but in overall John has lot of work to do to make it stand out from what is coming from the strong competition.
Enough genmoji. What a waste of development effort.
ReplyDeleteCommunication Safety seems nifty. The rest of this list, and WWDC26, was a yawner.
If i was an Apple employee, and imagining their demographic id be concerned. That presentation was ****, sorry it was. Imagine the "All i do is whatsapp, email, message 17e crowd". It felt like Apple tried too hard to push AI to people that really dont give a ****/or made alternatives.
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ReplyDeleteWas a good event. Nice to have links to all the different articles. Will miss Tim at future events. Glad to see Apple Intelligence and Siri getting the much required updates.
ReplyDeleteI was expecting more features presentation for macOS, so yesterday’s presentation was clearly a letdown. Ironically enough, the guy behind Siri development has done nothing to improve it for years, now getting some spotlight after Siri was powered by AI, and he claimed as if he has worked so hard on that.
ReplyDelete“ Apple's Private AI Will Run on Google's Servers”
ReplyDeleteThere goes your APPLE safety and security feeling!
“Apple Passwords Can Now Automatically Fix Weak and Compromised Passwords With Agentic AI”
It did that already, nothing new.
“tvOS 27 Drops Support for Two Apple TV Models”
Shouldnt Apple have wait with that till they FINALY come with a new modell?
Siri is SO slow that you have an idear she is googling for your answer.
The new functions in Photo, i tried all. Resulting in a crash of Photo everytime. I know its ‘beta’ but why promote it when it aint even beta yet?
My toughts?
WHAT ELSE IS NEW? They spoke 10.000 words but didnt say anything.
I’ll believe it when I see it, I do hope it’s all as good as it sounds, but I’ve been fooled once, I’ll not be fooled again.
ReplyDeleteI do note I see a lot of “Up to”’s all over the place.
Let’s wait & see, one thing we know is Apple like their money, will there be subscription to access all the bells & whistles.
I’m still on iOS 18, I’ll not be moving to 27 until it’s proven.
Every year this forum is filled with people complaining “we don’t want loads of new features every year, just fix all these bugs in the OS and make Siri actually usable”
ReplyDeleteThis year they announce they are fixing loads of bugs in the OS and are catching up to the competition by improving Siri… and I’ve never seen so much whinging.
To me, this seems like a great place for Tim to hand over to John Ternus, with a stable OS that is finally on par with the competition after years of lagging behind.
Whinging (and whining) is an integral part of the Blogs experience. 🤨
DeleteNahhh….see, There’s a major difference between fixing Siri by using their own in-house talents/ direction based off core company principles…and outsourcing the work to a key rival company that could not care less about privacy and see people as a product to be sold to the highest bidder SMH
DeleteWe don’t want to be “on par” with the competition…Apple should just do their own damn thing, investors/board of directors “be damned”.
If you can’t see that or don’t want to see that…then you’re not really even into what Apple has been abt for all this time…
Uhhh….you actualy TRIED it?
DeleteAll the ‘new great inventions” in photo make photo crash.
The “new” Siri is so slow that it looks like she is phoning google to find an answer for you.
AND…..EVERY apple safety and security is trouwen overboard because everything with our “new” Siri Goes to the GOOGLE server, and we all know what these good people from google do with all your information.
And its not only Siri, how about with the hundreds of bugs in apple home?
Or the decision from apple to sell you software and then charging rent on what you bought already?
I switched to apple about 30 years ago, never regretted that decision, but there is a VERY GREAT diffrence between apple then and apple now.
Considering all the hardware rumours that was pretty disappointing.
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ReplyDeleteNo. Not interested.
Linux calling.
And here we go again. Apple using its features to arm wrestle European lawmakers to go easy on them with the digital act. Giving in to as little as possible (nothing is preferred) but turning up the gas on them.
ReplyDeleteJust make the good things that the digital act has accomplished and make them worldwide available. US customers will also benefit (although they won't believe that for a second).
Wake up people to the mighty bosses taking over the world!
I am fine with Apple not offering new features for the European customers. European Apple device users should have a very watered down basic operating system, and allow US customers to have new features. Then allow the Europeans to buy apps from European developers to fill in the gaps from their watered down IOS version. So what if things are not integrated as well, they can complain to Brussels.
DeleteNote to self: Before deactivating Apple Intelligence (again): Have those Agentic password updaters fix all my old, compromised passwords...
ReplyDeleteNot much else from the Siri AI announcements that interest me...
Also: Everyone knows that the true cost of running these models will sooner or later be pushed to the user. Craig mentioned that there will be a daily usage limit for things like image generation and I'd guess most actually useful features will eventually require a subscription of some sort... But first - get everyone addicted...
I was hoping for something that feels radically different from what we saw today, but we need to remember that this is AI baked deep into our devices rather than just an app that queries a remote server.
ReplyDeleteThe slow responses shown in the keynote gave me pause, but then I remembered that the hardware to be announced in September will likely address that.
At the end of the day, this is the conversational Siri that we've all wanted, so let's be thankful for that.
Apple has split Siri AI's settings across two different Settings app panes, so that there's Settings > Siri (no longer "Apple Intelligence & Siri"), and Accessibility > Siri. Apple has done this before with some other settings, but this bifurcation is confusing. Arguably many of Siri AI's settings in Accessibility could be considered general settings that all users might want to adjust, so I think there should just be Settings > Siri rather than expecting the user to find both and bounce back and forth between them to try out Siri's new settings.
ReplyDeleteThe most underwhelming WWDC I've ever seen in my 20 years.
ReplyDeleteIs the new Siri app part of the wait list? 'Cause it ain't on my beta, which is running on an old iPhone 14 Pro Max
ReplyDeleteSiri AI, and Apple Intelligence, work only on devices with at least 8GB of RAM. Your 14PM contains 6GB.
DeleteThe one device where I [have to] use Siri today is my HomePod, but I'm not expecting HomePod Siri to become any smarter, unfortunately...
ReplyDeleteExcited about the claimed speed ups - that's cool.
ReplyDeleteExcited about EQ on air pods, but I doubt 3 bands is going to cut it. Why can they just give an advanced toggle for PEQ?! I get the interface problem with most people getting confused with PEQ but just unlock it behind an advanced user section.
Underwhelming. And another year without a proper redesign of the health app.
ReplyDeleteI’m already running iOS 27 on my iPhone 14. I’ll give it a couple of days to settle, and we’ll see how it runs, but so far so good.
ReplyDeleteI’m looking forward to trying macOS 27, but I need my MacBook for work, so I’m going to try to hold off for a while.
Siri AI is 80% irrelevant to me, but as long as I can still set my timers and run my shortcuts without having to have a whole bloody conversation with it, I’ll be good.
Just ordered myself a Google Pixel 9A. This will get GrapheneOS on it. I’m done.
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