Apple announces iOS 27

Apple announced its adjacent awesome iOS update, iOS 27, astatine WWDC 2026 connected Monday. Apple is highlighting capacity and creation improvements arsenic a awesome feature, and the update will beryllium supported each the measurement backmost to the iPhone 11.

A large alteration is an opacity slider for Liquid Glass. Liquid Glass was a awesome facelift introduced pinch iOS 26, bringing glassy creation elements and adding caller animations crossed the iPhone’s software. From the jump, Liquid Glass had immoderate legibility issues, but Apple tweaked things up of releasing the OS publically in September. With iOS 27, acknowledgment to the caller slider, you’ll beryllium capable to set conscionable really glassy things for illustration tab bars will be.

iOS 27 will besides characteristic the “next procreation of Apple Intelligence,” which has a “bold caller architecture” and an “all-new Siri.” As portion of the caller Apple Intelligence features, your devices will person consciousness of what’s connected your screen.

The new Siri is called “Siri AI,” which Apple says is much conversational. Siri has an updated design, pinch responses coming successful from the Dynamic Island astatine the apical of the screen. There’s a caller “voice experience,” and Apple will fto you customize Siri’s gait and expressivity. ​​There’s besides a dedicated Siri app, which keeps a history of your conversations, and they’re synced pinch iCloud. The camera app besides has a Siri mode, which tin admit objects, show you astir them, and shop those conversations successful the Siri app.

This caller update will beryllium Apple’s adjacent ace astatine Apple Intelligence features, which were first announced astatine WWDC 2024. Apple is good down companies for illustration Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic, which person each been steadily building retired their AI chatbots. At WWDC 2024, Apple announced a revamped AI-powered Siri, but astir a twelvemonth later, successful March 2025, the institution said it would beryllium delaying the upgraded Siri because it was taking “longer than we thought” to present the updates. It precocious settled a suit complete failing to deliver galore of those abilities. And earlier this year, it announced that it would beryllium picking Google’s Gemini AI for its large Siri upgrade.