Apple is expected to announce iOS 27, iPadOS 27, macOS 27, watchOS 27, tvOS 27, and visionOS 27 at WWDC 2026, with updates centered on a redesigned Siri experience, new artificial intelligence features, developer tools, and broader software improvements.
According to a report from Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, this year’s software releases are expected to focus more on AI capabilities, performance, battery life, and reliability rather than major interface changes.
Siri overhaul and AI assistant upgrades
Apple is reportedly rebuilding Siri into a more capable AI assistant that can understand personal context, analyze on-screen content, and perform actions across Apple and third-party apps.
Expected capabilities include:
- Access to personal information from apps and Apple services
- On-screen awareness
- Email drafting using information from messages, contacts, notes, calendars, and web content
- Appointment scheduling and conflict detection
- Multi-step requests within a single command
- Deeper app controls and navigation
Gurman reports that Apple is expected to use Google’s Gemini model to power parts of the new Siri experience, with much of the service potentially hosted on Google servers as part of the companies’ existing partnership.
Apple is also expected to redesign Siri’s interface on supported iPhones. Instead of the current edge-to-edge animation, Siri may appear inside Dynamic Island with a new voice-focused experience. The assistant is reportedly being internally labeled as a beta or preview release.
Apple is also expected to introduce a new Search or Ask interface that combines search, AI assistance, app launching, messaging, shortcuts, and web lookups. Users may be able to launch apps, create calendar appointments, search notes, run shortcuts, check weather information, and perform AI-powered searches from a single interface.
In addition, Apple is reportedly developing a dedicated Siri app for iPhone, iPad, and Mac with chat history, conversation summaries, iCloud syncing, text and voice interactions, image and file uploads, and customizable chat-retention settings.
Other Siri-related additions may include:
- Ask Siri for analyzing highlighted text and content
- Write with Siri for AI-assisted writing
- Conversational chatbot-style interactions
- Rich responses with text, images, and information cards
- Support for multiple AI providers, including ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini
- An in-house web-search capability for generating answers, summaries, and visual results directly within Siri
CoreAI and AI-powered tools
For developers, Apple is expected to introduce CoreAI, a framework designed to simplify AI integration within apps, provide access to Siri capabilities, support AI agents, and expand integration with Apple Intelligence services.
Apple is also reportedly expanding Visual Intelligence and integrating it more deeply into the Camera app and Siri. New capabilities may include nutrition label recognition, contact information detection, improved image understanding, and better extraction of actionable information from photos.
Several AI-powered image-editing tools are expected, including:
- Extend for expanding image backgrounds
- Reframe for adjusting image perspective
- Enhance for image-quality improvements
- Upgraded Clean Up tools for object removal
Apple is also testing natural-language photo editing, allowing users to request image changes through voice or text commands.
Additional AI features reportedly in development include:
- Suggested Genmoji generation based on photos and frequently used phrases
- Improved image-generation models
- Redesigned Image Playground
- AI-generated wallpapers and home-screen backgrounds
- Natural-language shortcut creation
- Systemwide grammar checking
- Support for third-party AI services within image and text-generation features
Performance and software improvements
Apple is expected to focus heavily on software quality improvements across its platforms.
Reported improvements include:
- Faster performance
- Better battery life
- Reduced bugs and glitches
- Improved security
- Greater overall reliability
- Refinements to the Liquid Glass interface
macOS 27 is also expected to address readability issues related to transparency effects introduced in macOS 26 Tahoe.
Apple is reportedly making under-the-hood software changes that could support the interface of a foldable iPhone expected later this year.
App, ecosystem and platform updates
Several built-in apps and system experiences are expected to receive updates.
Wallet
- Create a Pass for custom tickets, gift cards, and entry passes
- Built-in bill splitting through Wallet and Messages
Safari
- AI-powered tab organization
- Automatic grouping of tabs by category
- Redesigned start page with quicker access to bookmarks, favorites, reading lists, and browsing history
Weather
- New Conditions section displaying information such as wind and rainfall on the main screen
Additional system updates
- Fully customizable Camera controls
- New keyboard animations
- Updated notification animations and gestures
- Redesigned AirPods settings
- Support for third-party AirPlay alternatives
- Updated Find My interface
- Home-screen undo and redo controls
- Search tab refinements across Podcasts, TV, Music, Health, and News
watchOS 27 and Health features
watchOS 27 is expected to introduce a new Modular watch face alongside improvements to heart-rate monitoring and fitness tracking.
Apple is also reportedly continuing development of AI-powered health features, including enhanced blood sugar tracking, camera-based workout monitoring, and expanded health analysis tools. Some of these features may arrive after the initial software release.
Focus on emerging markets
Apple is also expected to place greater emphasis on emerging markets, including India, Indonesia, Malaysia, and other Southeast Asian countries. The company is reportedly developing software enhancements and business-focused features aimed at expanding its presence in these regions.
Apple WWDC 2026
WWDC 2026 runs from June 8 through June 12. Apple is expected to release the new software updates to consumers later this year alongside the next generation of iPhone and Apple Watch devices.