Apple has just announced the dates for this year’s Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), and WWDC 2026 is officially locked in from 8 June to 12 June, kicking off with the usual opening keynote.
This year’s tagline is “Coming bright up”, which has already set the rumour mill spinning. Adding to the drama, there is a lot of chatter that this could be one of the very last WWDC keynotes hosted by Tim Cook before he steps down as CEO.
As you would expect, the main event will give us our first proper look at Apple’s next-generation software lineup, including iOS 27, iPadOS 27, watchOS 27, macOS 27, tvOS 27, and visionOS 27. But the real star of the show is rumoured to be a completely reimagined Siri.
According to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, Apple is spinning its voice assistant out into its own standalone app. Instead of just a pop-up bubble, it sounds like we are getting a proper ChatGPT and Claude-style chatbot. This new app is being positioned as a one-stop shop for all your daily tasks, complete with your conversation history, zero ads, and an option for auto-deleting your chats to keep things tidy.
Getting this new AI off the ground hasn’t been smooth sailing for Apple, though. Gurman reports that the company’s strict obsession with user privacy actually delayed the assistant’s launch, mainly because Apple wanted to process as much data as possible on its own servers. Interestingly, while the new Siri will run on Apple Foundation Models, Google Gemini is reportedly doing the heavy lifting for the really demanding stuff.
Beyond the new Siri app, iOS 27 is shaping up to be a massive upgrade for anyone who writes on their phone. Apple is apparently testing a new Write With Siri toggle right at the top of the keyboard, offering advanced grammar checks and real-time writing suggestions that go way beyond the current Apple Intelligence tools. You will be able to easily approve or ignore changes and hop between flagged text.
Plus, if you trigger Siri inside an open text field, a new Help Me Write option will pop up to assist you on the fly. To round it all off, we can also look forward to natural language system-wide shortcuts, an overhauled Shortcuts app that builds actions from simple prompts, AI-generated wallpapers, and a bunch of clever new editing tools inside the Photos app.