iOS 27’s Siri AI is actually going to change how I use my iPhone

Apple has just unveiled iOS 27, the next major update for the iPhone, at WWDC 2026. This year, there isn’t much to get excited about in terms of new features, nor is there a new interface following last year’s major update that introduced Liquid Glass. It’s a lot of refinements, AI, and optimizations to make your iPhone feel faster.

At the same time, Apple announced a long-awaited change: a complete overhaul of Siri. Apple is rebuilding its assistant experience around context, conversation, and awareness. And for the first time in a very long time, Siri actually feels useful again.

Apple has spent years falling behind competitors in the AI race. While companies like OpenAI and Google turned their assistants into genuinely helpful tools, Siri often felt stuck in the past. But iOS 27’s main purpose is to make Siri useful again. And it appears to have delivered.

iOS 27 introduces Siri AI

The biggest news here is that Siri is no longer just a voice assistant that responds to isolated commands. It now understands context across your apps and even your ongoing conversations. And honestly, it’s the first Apple Intelligence feature that instantly made me rethink how I’ll use my iPhone every day.

Apple’s redesigned Siri experience in iOS 27 is centered around natural interaction. You can now seamlessly switch between voice and text conversations, continue previous requests, and even access your Siri history across devices through iCloud sync.

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Before iOS 27, Siri felt very outdated. You could only ask it a few commands, and it often misunderstood you. And then the interaction ended. There was no natural conversation.

Now, Siri behaves much more like a modern AI assistant. You can ask a follow-up question naturally without repeating yourself. You can start typing a request on your iPhone and continue it later on your iPad or Mac. It remembers the context of your conversation instead of forgetting everything with every new interaction.

Siri also gets its own app in iOS 27, which is a huge addition for people who just don’t want to talk to their phone all the time. Now you can interact with Siri just like you would with any other popular AI chatbot.

But the biggest improvement to Siri in iOS 27 is certainly its on-screen awareness capability.

Aware and alert

Apple also introduced on-screen awareness for Siri, a feature that genuinely feels transformative. According to Apple, Siri can now understand what’s currently on your screen and respond accordingly. If someone texts you an address, you can ask Siri to save it to a contact. If you’re looking at an event, you can ask Siri to add it to your calendar. If you’re reading an article, you can ask follow-up questions about what’s being displayed.

Many of these things were unveiled by Apple two years ago but weren’t delivered. Now, with Siri AI, it seems the company is finally keeping its promise.

And unlike some AI demos we’ve seen over the past year, Apple’s implementation actually feels grounded in real-world usage. In many ways, the new Siri AI feels like the beginning of a new interface layer for the iPhone.

Once again, the new Siri aims to make using our devices a much more personal and natural experience. Instead of having to search for lost files in your old emails or folders, you can just ask Siri. And when you can’t talk, you can simply swipe down from the Dynamic Island to type to Siri.

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More new features coming with iOS 27

Of course, iOS 27 isn’t just about Siri. For instance, there are many other new Apple Intelligence features coming with the update.

In the Photos app, users will be able to expand and even reframe their photos using AI. When writing a text, the enhanced Writing Tools will now automatically provide you with suggestions for rephrasing it. And you can even take pictures of your food to see how many calories it has.

Image Playground has also been completely revamped with better language models, which are capable of generating more natural-looking images. Thanks to this, users can even create their own wallpapers using Image Playground on iOS 27.

Apple also spent a good deal of time talking about performance. The company focused on making iOS 27 faster and more reliable, especially on older devices. And for those who had complaints about Liquid Glass, not only has the interface been refined, but there’s now a slider that lets you adjust the intensity of the effect.

Overall, iOS 27 doesn’t seem like a major update. But lack of transformative features hides the fact that Apple has finally released a new version of Siri that actually works and feels modern. And I can’t wait to get my hands on it.

iOS 27 is currently available only as a developer beta for the next several weeks. A public beta will be available next month, while the official release is expected this fall.