What Changed at Apple’s WWDC 2026? Siri AI Leads the Overhaul

Apple rebuilt Siri from the ground up and announced sweeping changes across iOS 27, macOS 27 Golden Gate, Safari and the Home app at its WWDC 2026 keynote June 8.

Here’s what changed.

Siri AI replaces the old assistant

The biggest change is Siri AI, a rebuilt voice assistant that arrived after months of delays. It can hold back-and-forth conversations with users, Mike Rockwell, Apple’s senior vice president for Siri engineering, said during the keynote.

Siri AI can hold back-and-forth conversations “with detailed and engaging answers.” — Mike Rockwell, Apple senior vice president for Siri engineering

Siri AI reads what appears on a user’s screen and answers questions about it. It also offers image editing and writing tools, and a new standalone Siri app stores conversation history.

Apple built the new version of Apple Intelligence, which powers the assistant, in collaboration with Google and its Gemini models.

Siri AI will reach the iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch and Vision Pro as a beta with a waitlist later this year. It requires an iPhone 15 Pro or newer, and it will not launch on iPhones or iPads in the European Union.

iOS 27 moves Siri into the Dynamic Island

Users can swipe down from the Dynamic Island to open Siri AI, where its responses also appear. The Camera app adds a Siri mode that identifies objects in the viewfinder.

A new opacity slider lets users adjust the Liquid Glass design. Apple said iOS 27 supports the iPhone 11 and later, the same lineup that runs iOS 26.

macOS 27 Golden Gate adds Siri to Spotlight

On the Mac, Siri lives inside Spotlight, so users can ask questions in the search bar and select files to ask about. The update brings the Liquid Glass slider, tighter window corners and colorful sidebar icons.

Safari watches webpages and fixes passwords

Safari now organizes open tabs by topic automatically. A Notify Me feature alerts users when a webpage changes, such as a product restock. The browser can update compromised passwords on a user’s behalf, and users can create extensions by describing them in plain language.

Everyday apps get smarter

Messages suggests photos to share based on conversations. The Phone app can pull up details such as a flight confirmation code when a call starts.

Mail gains improved suggestions. Users can add Calendar events by describing them and build Shortcuts the same way — with plain language. Image Playground adds AI photo edits, including composition changes and distraction removal.

Home app upgrades security cameras

The Home app can describe what happened in camera clips, stitch footage from different cameras, search recordings with natural language and play clips in 4K on supported cameras.

Parental controls tighten up

Parents with child accounts can choose which apps and content children may access and require permission before a child opens a new website. Apple also redesigned the Screen Time menu.