Available starting today, the 2027 software releases bring Siri AI and helpful Apple Intelligence-powered capabilities across the apps and experiences users rely on every day
Apple released the next generation of Apple Intelligence on September 14, 2026, powering an entirely reimagined Siri AI alongside new capabilities across Photos, Safari, Mail, Messages, Phone, Calendar, Shortcuts, and Home. Siri AI adds personal context understanding, onscreen awareness, broad world knowledge, and expanded systemwide app actions, and is reachable through a new dedicated Siri app, the side button, Dynamic Island, Spotlight, context menus, and spatial computing on Apple Vision Pro. The release also previews Audio Intelligence features arriving later in 2026 for Apple Watch Series 12 and Apple Watch Ultra 4, plus a redesigned Health app with AI-generated insights. Apple frames the whole architecture as privacy-first, combining on-device processing with Private Cloud Compute, while noting that Siri AI will not be available at launch in the EU or China.
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Siri AI is a completely reimagined, more personal and conversational version of Siri built on Apple Intelligence, offering personal-context understanding across messages, emails and photos, onscreen awareness, broad world knowledge, and expanded systemwide app actions, reachable via the side button, Dynamic Island, Spotlight, context menus, and a new dedicated Siri app that syncs conversation history across devices via iCloud.
The all-new dedicated Siri app that uses iCloud to privately sync conversation history across a user's Apple products, so a conversation can start on iPhone and continue on Mac, iPad, Apple Watch, or Apple Vision Pro.
Siri AI introduces more expressive, customizable voices and systemwide dictation with a major accuracy boost, powered by Apple's most advanced on-device model yet, AFM Core Advanced, which automatically handles capitalization, punctuation, and formatting as users speak.
Apple's most advanced on-device foundation model, powering Siri AI's expressive voices and systemwide dictation on supported iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Vision Pro models.
Visual Intelligence gives Siri AI image understanding and multimodal capabilities across iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Vision Pro, integrated into the Camera app's new Siri mode, the iPad screenshot experience, a Mac keyboard shortcut, and spatial look-and-ask interaction on Apple Vision Pro.
Siri AI's image-understanding and multimodal capability, letting users ask questions about visual content on their screen or in front of them across iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Vision Pro.
Siri AI's integrated Writing Tools let users draft and revise text almost anywhere they type by describing what they want; in Mail and Messages, Siri reflects each recipient's typical tone and punctuation, and Apple Intelligence now proofreads automatically across the system, including inside most third-party apps.
Siri AI's integrated drafting and editing capability, available almost anywhere a user types, that can generate a first draft from a description and revise existing text on request.
Beyond Siri AI, Apple Intelligence brings new capabilities to Photos, Image Playground, Safari, Mail and Messages, Phone, Calendar, Shortcuts, and Home, spanning photo editing, photorealistic image generation, tab organization, smart replies, call context, natural-language calendar entry, describable automations, and smarter home-video search.
The Photos app taps into more powerful image models for new editing tools that still respect the original captured moment: Spatial Reframing adjusts the camera perspective after a photo is taken, the Extend tool gives subjects more breathing room, and an improved Clean Up tool removes distractions with more realistic infill.
Powered by a new generative model running on Private Cloud Compute, Image Playground creates high-quality images in virtually any style, including photorealistic, from a description, and now also generates images directly inside the Siri AI app.
Safari adds tools that automatically organize a user's tabs into topics, notify users of website changes such as product restocks or price drops with Notify Me, and create custom browser extensions from a plain-language description.
In Mail and Messages, Smart Reply draws on a user's personalized writing style, and Suggestions in Mail become more capable, gaining the ability to take actions inside third-party apps.
With Call Context in Phone, users can proactively receive relevant information, such as a confirmation code or reservation number, while they are calling a business.
In Calendar, users can now add or modify events with simple, plain-language descriptions.
Shortcuts becomes more approachable, letting users create complex automations simply by describing what they want the shortcut to do.
The Home app adds the ability to understand related notifications as a single activity, view what happened across a sequence of video clips using generated video descriptions, search for clips across multiple cameras, and surface noteworthy clips at the top of the Search page.
Later in 2026, Apple Watch Series 12 and Apple Watch Ultra 4 gain privacy-first Audio Intelligence features built on the S11 chip, and the Health app is redesigned around Apple Intelligence-generated insights and a new Longevity tab.
Powered by the S11 chip's Secure Exclave and Apple Intelligence models running with Private Cloud Compute, Audio Intelligence brings Sound Recognition, Live Rewind, Siri Recap, and faster Shazam to Apple Watch Series 12 and Apple Watch Ultra 4, processing audio entirely on-device without storing recordings and encrypting saved snippets and summaries end-to-end.
Sound Recognition alerts Apple Watch users who are deaf or hard of hearing to important sounds such as sirens, alarms, doorbells, or a crying baby, using on-device intelligence even when their iPhone isn't nearby.
A double press of the Digital Crown shows the previous 15 seconds of a conversation as a text snippet, so users can catch something they missed; it plays an audible chime and shows a full-display indicator whenever it is active.
Siri Recap generates a brief, high-level summary — not a transcript — with a title and key points after a conversation, viewable later in the Siri app, and is designed to exclude sensitive information such as financial details or government-issued identifiers.
Faster Shazam instantly identifies music playing nearby and displays the song title and artist on the Music Recognition widget in the Smart Stack, glanceable on the wrist.
The Health app gets a new design with an Apple Intelligence-generated Insights tab summarizing timely metrics like sleep and peak VO2 max, personalized adaptive guidance, and a new Longevity tab featuring Health Age.
The Insights tab has an Apple Intelligence-generated summary highlighting a user's most timely health information, such as the latest on their sleep or peak VO2 max, updating throughout the day across heart, sleep, readiness, fitness, vitals, and cycle tracking data.
The new Longevity tab analyzes a user's longitudinal health data for deeper insights, including Health Age, which shows how certain metrics are tracking relative to the user's age.
The new capabilities run on the next generation of Apple Foundation Models, custom-built in collaboration with Google's Gemini models, processing on-device and on servers via Private Cloud Compute so personal data is never stored or made accessible to Apple; Siri AI itself was rebuilt on this architecture and uses a system orchestrator to tap on-device capabilities like the Spotlight index and App Toolbox.
The next generation of Apple's on-device and server foundation models underlying Apple Intelligence, custom-built in collaboration with Google's Gemini models.
Apple's server-side processing architecture that extends iPhone-grade privacy and security into the cloud; personal data handled through it is not stored or made accessible to Apple or anyone else, and outside experts can continue to verify the privacy promise.
An on-device capability that Siri AI's system orchestrator taps into so it can take systemwide app actions while keeping user data under on-device control.
Apple's systemwide search index, which Siri AI's system orchestrator taps into on-device and into which Siri AI is integrated on iPad and Mac.
Apple Intelligence in iOS 27, iPadOS 27, macOS 27, watchOS 27, and visionOS 27 requires an iPhone 16 or later (or iPhone 15 Pro/Pro Max), recent iPad and Mac models, Apple Vision Pro, or a recent Apple Watch; Siri AI rolls out in beta in English today with French, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, and Spanish arriving next month, and is not available at launch in the EU, China, or for users under 13; certain server-side features carry daily usage limits, with paid expanded access planned in the future.
From first invocation to the creative workflows Apple showcased in the announcement — every step below is a named schema:HowToStep in the companion RDF.
Say Hey Siri, press the side button, or swipe down from the Dynamic Island to start a conversation and get an in-depth answer.
Open Spotlight to search for answers to almost any question using Siri AI's broad world knowledge.
On iPad or Mac, Control-click within a systemwide context menu to ask Siri AI about images, files, or text currently on screen; on iPhone, use the new Siri mode in the Camera app or Visual Intelligence to ask about what's in front of you.
Look at the 3D Siri visualization placed anywhere in your space and start speaking to begin a spatial-computing conversation.
Open the all-new dedicated Siri app, which uses iCloud to privately sync conversation history across your Apple products.
Ask Siri what a family member suggested during an upcoming visit. Siri AI can search your messages, find that they mentioned baking a family recipe together, pull the cooking instructions from an email they sent previously, and add the ingredients to your grocery list in the Reminders app.
While viewing your favorite sports team's website, ask Siri to find all the upcoming home games and add them directly to your calendar, using Siri AI's onscreen awareness.
While looking at a poster for a music festival, use the new Siri mode in the Camera app to ask what the set times are for your favorite artists, then have Siri automatically create multiple calendar events for the weekend.
Open the Siri app and simply describe an image you want. Siri AI generates it for you, powered by Image Playground, in virtually any style, including photorealistic.
Describe what you need with Writing Tools and Siri AI generates a draft from scratch; describe a change and Siri quickly revises it, reflecting the tone and punctuation you typically use in Mail and Messages.
Ask Siri AI to text a friend in WhatsApp or play a book in Audible today, with support coming soon for drafting an email in Microsoft Outlook, searching for a homework assignment in Notability, or adding a restaurant recommendation to Tripsy.
Adjust the expressiveness and pace of Siri's voice so it's just right for you, powered by Apple's most advanced on-device model, AFM Core Advanced.
Start chatting with Siri on iPhone, then pick up the exact same conversation on Mac, iPad, Apple Watch, or Apple Vision Pro — the Siri app privately syncs conversation history across your products via iCloud.
Explore the entities and relationships in the companion RDF. Node and edge labels are resolver-backed links that open the entity's description in URIBurner (new tab).
Drag to pan · Scroll to zoom (click the graph first — zoom only activates while the graph is focused, so page scroll is never hijacked) · Drag a node to pin it, double-click to release · Click a node or edge label to open its RDF entity description in URIBurner (new tab). Controls tray is closed by default — click "⚙ Controls" to open it.