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Apple Reboots Siri and Ships iOS 27 Around Gemini‑Based AI

The company says the move is meant to close years of delayed AI promises by delivering a multimodal Siri AI using Gemini‑adapted models with a late‑2026 beta limited by hardware and regional rules.

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Asistentes a la Conferencia Mundial de Desarrolladores de Apple en el campus de Apple Park en Cupertino, California, en 2025. Fotógrafo: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg
El director ejecutivo de Apple, Tim Cook, saluda durante la Conferencia Mundial Anual de Desarrolladores en la sede de Apple en Cupertino, California, el lunes 8 de junio de 2026. (Foto AP/Noah Berger)

Overview

  • Apple unveiled iOS 27 and a redesigned assistant called Siri AI at WWDC on Monday, announcing a public beta for late 2026 that will launch initially in English for U.S. users.
  • The new Siri AI is multimodal, reads on‑screen context, can act as an in‑app agent, and will power new camera and photo tools such as a post‑capture reframe feature.
  • Apple confirmed a plurianual collaboration with Google that lets Apple adapt Gemini models into smaller versions that run on iPhone chips or Apple’s private cloud compute for privacy and efficiency.
  • iOS 27 will reach the same iPhone models that supported iOS 26, including back to iPhone 11, but Apple says many advanced Siri features will require higher‑end hardware and the EU will not get Siri AI at launch because of regulatory constraints.
  • The announcements aim to answer investor and user pressure after multi‑year delays; recent coverage reports a proposed $250 million settlement in U.S. litigation over earlier unmet AI promises while analysts remain split on how much AI will drive iPhone upgrades and services growth.