Rich Siri Conversations in macOS 27 Can Be Started in Spotlight

[MacRumors]

In macOS 27, Siri's new chatbot capabilities can be accessed straight from Spotlight, Apple announced today.

During its WWDC 2026 keynote, Apple revealed that Siri's rich conversational experience can be started right inside the Spotlight prompt, accessed via Command + Space, bringing in context and chat history on the fly.

Conversation history is synced via iCloud, so you can go from device to device. It can use world knowledge, personal content, and allows you to perform tasks like writing Messages or emails.

There's also a new Siri mode in Camera. Apple is introducing broader Apple Intelligence upgrades that can bring smarter capabilities to apps across the iPhone, iPad, and Mac.

Article Link: Rich Siri Conversations in macOS 27 Can Be Started in Spotlight

 

[godorowski]

"Hey Siri, forget what you just saw."

 

[Saturn1217]

This makes me sad. The new spotlight in macOS 26 was the one thing I really liked about that OS and now they’ve messed that up. It looks way worse too.

Sigh…

Same with iOS. The UI changes to shoehorn Siri in so it can be in front of our faces at all times is coming at the expense of a better UI for older (and more important) features. I hope at least some of this can be disabled.

 

[963852741]

Talked about macOS optimisations for 3 minutes and still talking about god damn AI. I have very low hopes for any actual optimisations.

 

[Johnny907]

People actually use Spotlight?

 

[svish]

Good to see this. iCloud sync can also be very useful.