Apple's WWDC 2026: AI-first updates, Siri overhaul, and parental controls

Tim Cook gave his final WWDC opening speech as Apple's CEO as the company previewed software coming to the iPhone, Mac, iPad, Apple Watch, and Vision Pro. The keynote centered on "Apple Intelligence," the branding for a suite of AI features the company said are threaded through its products — from Siri to the Vision Pro — and extending to Safari, which can organize tabs by topic, monitor webpages for updates, and create custom extensions from natural-language prompts.

Apple said iOS 27 will support devices back to the iPhone 11 and includes an optimized CPU scheduler intended to make older phones feel more responsive. Stacey Ford described the inclusion of older phones as making the update "available to more users than any iOS update, ever." Siri is getting a major overhaul to be more conversational, handle multi-step requests and follow-ups, pull from personal context on the device, understand the active screen, and take actions across apps; Apple is also introducing a dedicated Siri app to revisit past conversations across devices.

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