{"id":681610,"date":"2026-06-03T09:55:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T09:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/681610\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T09:55:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T09:55:12","slug":"siri-in-ios-27-every-new-feature-and-change-to-expect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/681610\/","title":{"rendered":"Siri in iOS 27: Every New Feature and Change to Expect"},"content":{"rendered":"

Apple first introduced the idea of a smarter version of Siri<\/a> at the 2024 Worldwide Developers Conference. \u200cSiri\u200c with Apple Intelligence<\/a> was supposed to launch as part of iOS 18, but the underlying architecture wasn’t good enough, and Apple was forced to delay the feature. We’re now expecting a new version of \u200cSiri\u200c in iOS 27<\/a> with some long-awaited smarts.<\/p>\n

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Siri’s New Capabilities<\/p>\n

Based on Apple’s promises and rumors about what’s coming in the new version of iOS, \u200cSiri\u200c in \u200ciOS 27\u200c will be nothing like \u200cSiri\u200c in iOS 26<\/a>. In 2024, Apple showed us three ways that \u200cSiri\u200c will improve, but two years have passed and extra work has been done, so we’re expecting even more than what Apple demonstrated back then.<\/p>\n

\u200cSiri\u200c is going to be able to draw on user data and information from Apple devices, with access to personal data for completing tasks. The assistant is also going to be able to do more with apps, and it will be able to tell what’s on the screen to answer questions.<\/p>\n

Personal Context<\/p>\n

\u200cSiri\u200c will be able to access emails, messages, files, photos, and more, learning all about you to help you complete tasks and keep track of what you’ve been sent. Apple offered some examples of how personal context will work:<\/p>\n

Show me the files Eric sent me last week.
\nFind the email where Eric mentioned ice skating.
\nFind the books that Eric recommended to me.
\nWhere’s the recipe that Eric sent me?
\nWhat’s my passport number?<\/p>\n

Onscreen Awareness<\/p>\n

Onscreen awareness will let \u200cSiri\u200c see what’s on your screen and complete actions involving whatever you’re looking at. If someone texts you an address, you can tell \u200cSiri\u200c to add it to their contact card. Or if you’re looking at a photo and want to send it to someone, you can ask \u200cSiri\u200c to do it for you.<\/p>\n

App Integration<\/p>\n

\u200cSiri\u200c will be able to do more in and across apps, performing actions and completing tasks that are just not possible with the personal assistant right now. We don’t have a full picture of what \u200cSiri\u200c will be capable of, but Apple gave a few examples of what to expect.<\/p>\n

Moving files from one app to another.
\nEditing a photo and then sharing it with someone.
\nGetting directions home and sending the ETA in the Messages app.
\nDrafting and then sending an email.<\/p>\n

\u200cSiri\u200c will be able to complete tasks in Apple apps and in third-party apps, with developers able to expose app capabilities to \u200cSiri\u200c.<\/p>\n

Siri as a Chatbot<\/p>\n

Apple is turning Siri into a full chatbot<\/a> that users can interact with similarly to Claude or ChatGPT. The \u200cSiri\u200c chatbot will be integrated into Apple’s operating systems at the system level, plus there will be a \u200cSiri\u200c app for back-and-forth conversations.<\/p>\n

\u200cSiri\u200c will be able to do the same things that other chatbots can do. It will be able to search the web for answers to questions and provide summaries, evaluate and summarize uploaded documents, and even generate images and content so you can do things like get help with writing or creating an infographic.<\/p>\n

Unlike ChatGPT and Claude, \u200cSiri\u200c will have deeper Apple device integration and more access to user data. Current chatbots can’t access your mail app, what you’ve written in notes, your Photos<\/a> Library, or your messages, but \u200cSiri\u200c will have that information. Personal data access will set \u200cSiri\u200c apart and give iPhone users some of the features that Android users have been able to enjoy thanks to Gemini’s integration with Google services.<\/p>\n

\u200cSiri\u200c will be able to answer multi-part questions, remember what it was asked before, maintain context across requests, and remember details about the user.<\/p>\n

Siri’s Design<\/p>\n

With \u200cSiri\u200c’s chatbot transition, Apple will be making multiple Siri-related design changes. \u200cSiri\u200c will largely live in the Dynamic Island<\/a>, and there will be new ways to access \u200cSiri\u200c.<\/p>\n

Swiping down from the center of the iPhone’s display from the Home Screen<\/a> or any app will bring up a new “Search or Ask” feature in the \u200cDynamic Island\u200c. A glowing, pill-shaped animation will be displayed in the \u200cDynamic Island\u200c to indicate that \u200cSiri\u200c is processing a request.<\/p>\n

When \u200cSiri\u200c has an answer, the \u200cDynamic Island\u200c will expand into a transparent card with the result, incorporating images, info from the web, notes and other information relevant to the query or request. Swiping on the results card will bring up a conversation mode that looks similar to an iMessage chat, and there will be an option to transition to the full \u200cSiri\u200c app.<\/p>\n

Search or Ask replaces \u200cSiri\u200c Suggestions and will let users launch apps, start text messages, ask about the weather, add calendar appointments, trigger shortcuts in apps, and search the web using Apple’s new AI web search feature. Search or Ask queries will also be able to be sent to third-party chatbot services like ChatGPT instead of \u200cSiri\u200c.<\/p>\n

While \u200cSiri\u200c can be accessed through a swipe in \u200ciOS 27\u200c, Apple is keeping the “Hey \u200cSiri\u200c” wake word and \u200cSiri\u200c activation through the Side button. With the new center swipe, accessing the Notification Center will be done with a swipe down on the left side of the display. Swiping down on the right side will continue to bring up Control Center.<\/p>\n

Apple will also integrate an “Ask \u200cSiri\u200c” button into the menus of its apps, giving users a way to send content directly to \u200cSiri\u200c alongside a request.<\/p>\n

The new \u200cSiri\u200c interface uses dark colors with no light mode available. \u200cSiri\u200c UI elements have a dark background with color accents that mirror the options Apple is using in WWDC imagery. Apple’s WWDC website features a white Swift bird with subtle highlights in pink, dark blue, purple, and orange.<\/p>\n

A Siri App<\/p>\n

There will be a dedicated \u200cSiri\u200c app for interacting with \u200cSiri\u200c, and it will look similar to apps for third-party chatbots but with an Apple design aesthetic. We have a separate guide on the \u200cSiri\u200c app.<\/p>\n

Privacy<\/p>\n

Apple plans to lean into privacy as a central principle<\/a> of its approach to AI, giving it a way to distinguish \u200cSiri\u200c from other chatbot options. Apple will likely aim to keep as much processing on-device as possible to limit the amount of data that leaves a user’s device.<\/p>\n

Apple said that \u200cApple Intelligence\u200c features will continue to run on Apple devices and Private Cloud Compute.<\/p>\n

Apple will have limits around memory, including restrictions on the information that can persist and how long it is kept. Users will be able to auto-delete \u200cSiri\u200c chats and requests after a set period of time, like 30 days or one year. There will also be an option to keep chats permanently.<\/p>\n

\u200cSiri\u200c can be turned off right now, as can \u200cApple Intelligence\u200c, and there’s no sign that’s going to change in \u200ciOS 27\u200c. Users who don’t want to enable \u200cSiri\u200c or use the new features will not have to.<\/p>\n

Siri Extensions<\/p>\n

Apple is letting rival chatbots integrate<\/a> with \u200cSiri\u200c in \u200ciOS 27\u200c, expanding on the OpenAI partnership that currently allows \u200cSiri\u200c to hand off requests to ChatGPT. Apple plans to allow other chatbots like Claude and Gemini to work with \u200cSiri\u200c, so users will be able to send questions to their favorite chatbot instead of \u200cSiri\u200c.<\/p>\n

iPhone users will be able to select which services they want to use inside \u200cSiri\u200c through “Extensions” options coming to \u200ciOS 27\u200c, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27<\/a>. The options will be available in the \u200cApple Intelligence\u200c and \u200cSiri\u200c section of the Settings app, with Apple providing download links for chatbot apps. There will be a dedicated Extensions section<\/a> in the App Store<\/a> that will serve as a way to choose a third-party AI app.<\/p>\n

\u200cSiri\u200c will be the default for the Search or Ask interface, but rumors suggest users will be able to select other chatbots to speak with. Users will also be able to choose third-party AI services<\/a> as the default for \u200cApple Intelligence\u200c features like Writing Tools and Image Playground<\/a>, expanding \u200cApple Intelligence\u200c integration beyond ChatGPT.<\/p>\n

Apple also plans to let users choose voices from third-party AI to use instead of \u200cSiri\u200c, so there will be a distinct audio difference between a response from \u200cSiri\u200c and a response from the user’s chatbot of choice. \u200cSiri\u200c would use one voice, while responses from third-party AI options would use another voice.<\/p>\n

Gemini Help<\/p>\n

To get \u200cSiri\u200c up and running, Apple partnered with Google<\/a> to use Gemini AI models instead of using its own AI models. Apple signed a multi-year deal to use Google’s Gemini models and cloud technology for its Apple Foundation Models.<\/p>\n

Google and Apple said that the next generation of Apple Foundation Models will be based on Google Gemini models, with Gemini used to power future \u200cApple Intelligence\u200c features and the more personalized version of \u200cSiri\u200c.<\/p>\n

Apple said Google’s AI technology offered the most capable foundation for its models.<\/p>\n

Device Compatibility<\/p>\n

\u200cApple Intelligence\u200c features require an iPhone 15 Pro or later, and it’s possible some of the new \u200cSiri\u200c options could be limited to those same models.<\/p>\n

Launch Date<\/p>\n

Apple will preview the new \u200cSiri\u200c at its WWDC 2026<\/a> keynote event on June 8, with betas of \u200ciOS 27\u200c, iPadOS 27, and \u200cmacOS 27\u200c provided to developers the same day. Public betas will come in July, and the software updates will launch in September.<\/p>\n

It is not yet clear if all of the new \u200cSiri\u200c features will be available in the beta, or even right when \u200ciOS 27\u200c launches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Apple first introduced the idea of a smarter version of Siri at the 2024 Worldwide Developers Conference. \u200cSiri\u200c…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":681611,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[831,21430,42511,74],"class_list":["post-681610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-featured","tag-ios-27","tag-siri","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=681610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681610\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/681611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=681610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=681610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=681610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}