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iOS 27: What We Know About the New Siri App
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theinstructor
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Cripes, I'd be happy if I could just ask Siri to turn off the kitchen and living room light in one command.
If that’s true, it seems reductive.
iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27 will include a standalone Siri app for the first time, providing a dedicated space for interfacing with Siri.
Siri Chatbot
Apple needs a Siri app because Siri is turning into a chatbot. Siri will work like ChatGPT or Claude, able to pull information from the web to provide answers to questions.
Siri will be integrated into iOS, iPadOS, and macOS at the system level, and can draw on device information. It will know more personal context than before, and will be able to access emails, texts, photos, calendar information, contacts, notes, and other personal data. Some of what Siri will be able to do:
Siri will be integrated into Apple apps like Mail, Messages, Photos, and Apple TV.
- Search the web for information
- Generate images
- Generate content
- Summarize information
- Analyze uploaded files
- Use personal data to complete tasks
- Write emails, notes, and texts
- Control device features and settings
- Search for on-device content, pulling information from emails, messages, files, and more
Siri App Design
The standalone Siri app will look similar to the ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini apps. Bloomberg's Mark Gurman shared a mockup of what the Siri app will look like.
Siri will support text or voice-based conversations. The app will open with an "Ask Siri" bar where users can type in a question. A paperclip icon will be available for attaching images, PDFs, and other documents. Apple will provide prompts with suggestions on what users can ask.
Questions will resemble iMessage chat bubbles, with Apple adopting a design that is familiar to users. Responses will include links, images, and other information.
A section of the app will be dedicated to past conversations that can be shown in a card-style interface with conversation summaries, or a list view. Users will be able to tap into a conversation to continue it.
Dark Interface
Apple's Siri interface both inside and outside of the dedicated Siri app will adopt dark colors. Apple's WWDC website hints at the colors it plans to use for Siri.
The website features the Swift bird logo in white on a black background, with subtle highlights in pink, dark blue, purple, and orange. The colors are reminiscent of the current Siri animation that surrounds the iPhone's display when Siri is activated, but the shades are softer and not as saturated.
WWDC 2026
The updated version of Siri will be unveiled at WWDC 2026, which is set to begin on Monday, June 8 at 10:00 a.m. Pacific Time.
Article Link: iOS 27: What We Know About the New Siri App
Why would I use it? What benefit does it give me over Claude or ChatGPT apps?
The thing I’ve always loved about Apple is deep integration. Maybe if this is a “oh, and if you want, you can have these separate conversations / projects” then sure, I guess?
I imagine it will almost certainly be tied to a new subscription tier. They can’t possibly make this a freebie.
Solution: To do this, create a scene (in which the lights you want to switch off are switched off).
By the way: It is possible to switch off several rooms at the same time ("switch off kitchen and living room")
Interesting juxtaposition of the two AI articles, one showing how great it is whilst the next shows how chatting to it's customer service bot will enable your social accounts to be hijacked.
xxFoxtail
macrumors 65816
This happens all the time on multiple news sites. Especially with Apple and right before a keynote. It keeps the hype going when there's otherwise not much other news to share. As a macrumors regular, I agree it can be kind of annoying, thinking there might be some new tidbits written in. There might be some people who missed the original post.
Taq'aix
macrumors 6502
You know how MacRumors works, right? It’s a click-bait business. The more traffic they generate, the more advertising revenue they make. That model has existed since the early days of the internet. LOL.
Every article view, and even every comment, helps drive engagement which in return helps them make money.
klasma
macrumors G4
It works for SEO and brings traffic to the site. And your comment will likely be removed (as will mine in consequence).
Isn’t this going to cost Apple a lot of money in compute? Are they going to limit the number of queries you can make like all the other free tier AI models? Are they going to introduce a paid “Siri Plus” eventually? Inevitably yes, I’d guess.
Being able to turn it off is better than nothing, but better if it can be uninstalled, certainly on a Mac. Disabled it will certainly be on my Mac, just like AI is now and AI is turned off on my Android phone
Moukee
macrumors 6502
Why does it default to dark mode instead of respecting the current system setting? Does it have a light mode at all? Dark mode is pretty much unusable for me in bright sunlight.
In the end a lot comes down to the models used. Will it have a great on-device model? Will it be able to use cloud models and are they running in "Private Cloud Compute" like Apple announced two years ago? I think that's pretty important if it can access all of my personal data. Otherwise I might as well use any other chatbot app.
In the end a lot comes down to the models used. Will it have a great on-device model? Will it be able to use cloud models and are they running in "Private Cloud Compute" like Apple announced two years ago? I think that's pretty important if it can access all of my personal data. Otherwise I might as well use any other chatbot app.
jennyp
macrumors 6502a
NightFox
macrumors 68040
Siri has been integrated into iPhones in some form since 2011. I'm not sure in that time it's ever reached the bar of being 'pretty damned good' especially compared to the competition, much as I really wanted it to be so much better than the alternatives.
I don't know why people posted negative emojis at this because its a valid point. As impressive as on-device LLMs have become, they do still need to pop things over to the mother brain for more advanced queries. It is feasable that by launching a seperate Siri chatbot app they are able to bring support to older devices.
I'll go one better and suggest that all of the new Siri features will come to all OS27 devices. Apple will still be segregating Apple Intelligence apps and features to newer models with more RAM but the new Siri with the new animations and so-on will need to be OS27-wide or it will look a little silly.
Given the history of AI agents being fooled into giving up personal information via email analysis, I will not be enabling any Siri access to my text messages or email.
cjsuk
macrumors 68020
Yeah exactly. The whole instagram password reset thing doing on at the moment says everything.
PBG4 Dude
macrumors 603
This works for me all the time.
What I have found weird is if I ask for the dining room, living room, and kitchen lights to be turned on/off, only the first two rooms will be affected. If I say kitchen as the first of the three rooms, then all 3 will be affected. No clue why it’s this way.
The Game 161
macrumors Nehalem
people moan when al isn't available with apple intelligence and will moan that it's here and how they don't want it.
dmr727
macrumors G4
Same here. I'm not anti-AI, but I've been unhappy with the hamfisted way that everyone has been integrating it into their products (looking at you, Microsoft and Google). Siri has been a punching bag for a long, long time, so I'm hoping Apple is working hard to get this right.
Dj64Mk7
macrumors 65816
There have been several times where I’ve been suspended from the forums for making comments and observations like what the person you replied to did, in addition to my comment being removed, but thankfully it hasn’t happened in a while.