New Apple iOS 27 Details Show It’s Time To Upgrade Your iPhone

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Apple is planning its biggest overhaul of Siri in the assistant’s 15-year history. New leaked details show what it will look like alongside some new functionality when it lands with iOS 27.

The only problem is that the update will only come to newer iPhone models and, with newly improved trade-in prices and the prospect of iPhone 18 price rises ahead, this might be the sweet spot for an upgrade.

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Apple’s New iOS 27 Siri Is A Major Upgrade

Apple iPhone 17 Pro Max will get the updated Apple Intelligence. (Photo by Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

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Mockups created by Bloomberg, based on leaked details, reveal that iOS 27 will introduce a completely rebuilt Siri, now available as a standalone app. Rather than the not-so-smart assistant that has barely changed in the last decade, the new Siri will work like a proper AI chatbot, similar to ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini and Claude.

It works in two ways. Pressing the Siri button will trigger a response through the Dynamic Island, Apple’s pill-shaped status bar at the top of the screen, for quick voice queries.

A new search interface, accessed by swiping down on the home screen, opens a full chat-style experience where users can search their phone and the web, launch apps, compose messages, add calendar events and get detailed AI-powered answers. All of it is powered by a rebuilt Siri model that uses Google’s Gemini AI technology.

The Problem: Most iPhones Won’t Get The New iOS 27 Siri

All of these features may require an iPhone 15 Pro or newer. Apple still states that its Apple Intelligence features are reserved for newer iPhones and other recent hardware.

That may change when iOS 27 is unveiled at WWDC on June 8th, but considering both Samsung and Google have reserved Gemini Intelligence for their latest phones, Apple being the generous exception seems unlikely. Hardware…

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