Apple’s WWDC 2026 keynote has concluded, marking Tim Cook’s last hurray as CEO. And he signed off in style, unveiling the tech giant’s new features for iOS 27 – including the new AI-powered Siri as the star of the show.
The arrival of the new Siri voice assistant, dubbed Siri AI, which now has a dedicated app, ends a two-year wait after Apple initially announced it during WWDC 2024. Until now, we’ve known very little about it, other than that Apple has enlisted the help of Google’s Gemini AI models to power its new assistant.
Siri AI will initially come in English, with support for other languages coming in the future.
What’s new in Siri AI?
It’s safe to say that Siri AI is a monumental upgrade to the traditional Siri voice we’ve been used to. Not only will it be able to carry out simple requests like the original Siri, but Apple promises that its upgraded version is far smarter and will be much more responsive to your needs.
Siri AI has a new design that, as we expected, extends from the dynamic island where you can speak or even trigger a typed conversation. Then there’s Siri’s iconic voice and tone, which is also being revamped.
Apple says Siri AI’s new voice will be more conversational, detailed and engaging, making your back-and-forth chats easy to navigate. Siri AI can understand slang and other colloquial expressions that it incorporates into its responses, but that’s not the most impressive part—it’s even more customizable.
Until now, Siri’s capabilities have spanned different accents from two separate voices, male and female, but with Siri AI you can be even more precise with how you want it to sound by changing its speaking tempo levels and how expressive it is, ensuring you can create a voice assistant that you won’t find jarring.
For the first time, Siri gets a dedicated app that, according to Apple’s keynote visuals, looks not too dissimilar to Chat GPT’s, with your chat history integrated across all your Apple devices, synced privately with iCloud. If you don’t want to open Siri via its new Dynamic Island home, the Siri AI app lets you kickstart conversations right there.
On top of all this, you can write and edit with Siri AI wherever you’re writing on your device, be it in Messages, Mail or Pages, and it even proofreads your writing as you type and provides helpful tips and suggestions for improvement. This means you don’t need to take manual action when a typo is highlighted. Apple has also said that this feature will also be available across select third-party apps.
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