Overview
- Apple previewed iOS 27 and the new Siri AI during its WWDC keynote on Monday, June 8, with developer betas available immediately and public betas planned next month.
- Siri AI becomes a conversational assistant with a standalone Siri app that stores synced conversation history, offers on-screen awareness, and can act across apps to draft, search, and take multi-step actions.
- Apple said the new Apple Intelligence will use a mix of on-device models and private cloud inference, with multiple outlets reporting some heavy inference will use Google’s Gemini and third-party GPUs such as Nvidia in cloud infrastructure.
- Many advanced Apple Intelligence features will be limited by hardware and region, with full Apple Intelligence requiring newer chips and Siri AI initially unavailable on iOS/iPadOS in the EU and not launching in China while regulatory work continues.
- iOS 27 also focuses on speed and polish — Apple cited up to 30% faster app launches, faster photo loading and a Liquid Glass opacity slider — and adds expanded Visual Intelligence, generative photo edits, and stronger parental controls that let guardians set app, web and daily-use limits.