Apple rolls out Siri AI, a redesigned assistant built on Apple Intelligence with personal context and on-screen awareness

Apple introduced Siri AI on Monday, June 8, 2026, positioning the next-generation assistant as a “completely reimagined” version of Siri that is more conversational, more capable, and more tightly integrated across Apple’s apps and devices. The company said the update is powered by Apple Intelligence and designed to help users find information and complete tasks throughout the day, while drawing on personal context such as messages, email, and photos.

Apple’s pitch centers on personal context understanding. Siri AI can surface relevant information from a user’s own communications and media, Apple said, and it can answer questions by combining that context with broader world knowledge. In examples from Apple’s release, the assistant can help retrieve a restaurant recommendation mentioned in a friend’s message, pull a hotel confirmation number from an older email, or bring up photos from a recent trip.

Siri AI is also described as “onscreen aware,” meaning it can answer questions related to content visible on a user’s display. Apple gave a scenario in which a text about a potluck can trigger a brainstorming conversation, followed by adding a recipe into the Notes app. The assistant is invoked across platforms in multiple ways, including voice prompts, iPhone gestures from Dynamic Island, Spotlight-based access on iPad and Mac, and control-click context menus for asking about images, files, or text on the screen.

The redesign’s privacy story is a central part of the product message. Apple said Siri AI leverages “the next generation of Apple Intelligence” using Apple Foundation Models that can run on device and on servers via Private Cloud Compute. When Private Cloud Compute is handling requests, Apple said, a user’s personal data is not stored or made accessible to Apple or others, and independent experts can verify the privacy promise. Apple also said Siri AI uses a system orchestrator to tap core capabilities such as the Spotlight index and App Toolbox, which work entirely on device to keep user data under the user’s control.

Apple said Siri has been rebuilt with a powerful on-device model for devices that support Apple’s most advanced on-device capabilities. For supported products, the assistant offers “even more expressive voices” and a major accuracy boost in systemwide dictation, including automatic capitalization, punctuation, and formatting as users speak. Apple also described user controls for voice expressiveness and pace, tying the upgrade to both speech understanding and the reliability of transcribed text.

To address the annoyance of losing context across sessions, Apple introduced an all-new dedicated Siri app meant to revisit past conversations and start new ones. Apple said the app uses iCloud to privately sync conversational history across a user’s products, allowing a conversation to begin on Mac and continue on iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, or Apple Vision Pro.

Siri AI’s multimodal component expands what users can do with images and the visual world around them. Apple said Visual Intelligence with Siri is built into iPhone’s Camera app with a dedicated Siri mode that can analyze what the user taps to capture. The company also said Visual Intelligence arrives for the first time on iPad and Mac through screenshot-based and shortcut-based entry points, respectively, and it expands to Apple Vision Pro by letting users ask about things “just by looking at them,” including content inside app windows and physical objects.

For writing and editing, Apple said Siri AI adds integrated Writing Tools that can draft from scratch based on a user’s description, then revise content when the user describes the desired change. Apple said it can reflect each recipient’s usual writing style in Mail and Messages, including punctuation and tone, and it can provide tips and suggestions to improve written work. Apple also said Siri can automatically proofread as users type across the system, including within many third-party apps, and it previewed additional Apple Intelligence-driven upgrades inside everyday apps such as Photos editing, Safari browsing tools, and Image Playground.

Apple said the new Siri AI features begin developer testing “starting today” through the Apple Developer Program, with support described across iOS 27, iPadOS 27, macOS 27, and visionOS 27, and an eventual watchOS 27 beta. Apple also stated that a beta for users will arrive later this year for supported devices and English, with language support to expand, and it flagged important regional limits: Siri AI is not initially available in the EU for iOS and iPadOS, and Apple said it will not be available in China while it works through regulatory requirements. What Apple did not provide in the release are specifics on exact feature availability by region and model tier during the beta, or performance and safety metrics for the web-question answering and personal-data retrieval capabilities.

Beyond the launch window, Apple’s next milestones will likely be how broadly it expands beta access and how developers adopt the “personal context understanding” pathways described for third-party apps when they integrate with Spotlight. Another key watch point is whether Apple’s privacy architecture, built around on-device indexes and Private Cloud Compute, becomes a differentiator in independent evaluations as Siri AI handles more complex, multi-step tasks using both personal data and web information.