After going MIA for two years, Apple’s redesigned Siri has finally resurfaced. At WWDC 2026, the company showed off a new version of the AI-powered Siri that we first saw in 2024, now called Siri AI. As announced earlier this year, Apple has partnered with Google to rebuild Apple Intelligence and Siri over its competitors’ Gemini models.
On the iPhone, the new Siri lives inside the device’s Dynamic Island, which was released on the iPhone 14 Pro in 2022 before Apple brought it to the regular iPhone in 2023. As before, you can wake up the assistant by saying “Siri” or holding the power button. Apple also added a new swipe gesture, which involves pulling down from the top center of your device. Any of these actions bring up a new “Search or Ask” interface that lets you do things like open apps, start a text message, add calendar appointments and search your notes. Over on macOS, users can wake up Siri by using Spotlight. Apple says the search tool is smart enough to know when you’re trying to ask a question in the assistant and will deliver the information accordingly.
When he returns the answer, Siri will show an interactive card that will come out of Dynamic Island. Users can swipe down on the popup to open a larger window where they can ask additional questions to the digital assistant. “[Siri AI] it can access personal content insights to search across messages, emails, photos, and more, and make things happen across apps with even more app actions,” Apple said.
As part of the redesign, the company has made the voice assistant natural. Users can adjust the speed and loudness of Siri’s new voice, on a per-slide basis. The company says it has also improved voice dialing across iOS and elsewhere, with a feature that offers better understanding of capital letters and more.
Mike Rockwell, vice president of Siri engineering, demoted the new assistant. He first asked Siri AI about an upcoming Suki Waterhouse concert to demonstrate how the assistant could use real-time information to provide feedback. This time, Siri told Rockwell that he had to enter the lottery to see Waterhouse play, at which point the executive asked if the assistant could save him a reminder. In a separate demo, Rockwell showed off Siri’s new intelligence, which allowed her to ask about landmarks seen in images on the display. With a follow-up voice command, Rockwell instructed Siri to add her family to a shared album, and the assistant responded accordingly.
Alongside the new Search or Ask window, Apple is releasing a dedicated Siri app to give iPhone users an alternative to the original ChatGPT team with Claude. Like those apps, the software lets you chat with Siri through text and voice. You can also upload photos and documents for the assistant to analyze. Apple says the dedicated app “makes it easy to revisit an existing conversation or open a new one,” and your conversation history is synced privately thanks to iCloud.
Apple is also bringing a new Siri to watchOS and visionOS, with the company saying it will integrate the assistant for each platform. Finally, for example, the company created 3D visualization for AI.
Siri AI will launch in English first, Apple promises the availability of other languages to follow. Developers can try out the new Siri today, with beta access rolling out to consumers later this year. Apple has said it will roll out Siri AI in the European Union and China later due to stricter regulatory requirements.
Apple first unveiled the new Siri at WWDC 2024, promising a smarter, more digital assistant. At the heart of that promise was App Intents, a feature the company said would give Siri the ability to understand all the information stored on your iPhone. During one of the song’s most prominent demos, Kelsey Peterson, Apple’s former director of machine learning and AI, asked Siri to get an update on her mom’s flight. The assistant not only understood the request, but also provided real-time flight tracking information in the process.
At the conference, Apple did not allow the media to try out the new Siri. What else, Information later reported that the demo the company was showing publicly was actually a detailed concept video. Apple first admitted that the new assistant was in trouble in March 2025 when it said Daring Fireball’s John Gruber that it was delaying the development to sometime “next year.” Apparently, Apple didn’t make that deadline. In May, the company agreed to pay $250 million to settle a class-action lawsuit that claimed it misled US iPhone buyers that a new version of Siri would arrive in 2024.
