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Apple’s keynote at this year’s Worldwide Developers Conference was a big one. After months of delays, Apple reintroduced us to its AI-upgraded Siri, which will go beyond what the existing voice assistant can do by offering more personalized help. We also got a look at many other updates coming across the operating systems powering the iPhone, iPad, and Mac.
You can catch up with all the biggest news in the roundup below.
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Siri is getting a bunch of AI features powered by the latest version of Apple Intelligence, which Apple worked with Google to build. Apple is calling the upgraded voice assistant Siri AI, offering the ability to have back-and-forth conversations “with detailed and engaging answers,” Apple AI head Mike Rockwell said during the keynote.
In addition to offering image editing and writing tools, Siri AI also uses onscreen awareness to pull context from what’s on your screen to answer questions. Apple is also launching a standalone Siri AI app, where you can access your conversation history. Siri AI will roll out across Apple’s devices, including the iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, and Apple Vision Pro.
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Apple is adding the ability to access its new Siri AI by swiping down from the Dynamic Island, where its responses will also appear. iOS 27 comes with a “Siri Mode” in its Camera app, too, which can recognize objects in your viewfinder and tell you more about them.
There’s also a new opacity slider for Apple’s polarizing Liquid Glass design. Apple says iOS 27 will be supported by the iPhone 11 and up.
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