WWDC 2026: See everything Apple announced at the keynote.
Apple unveils iOS 27 on Monday at the WWDC keynote, and the leaks have already given us a pretty detailed map of what is coming. This is shaping up to be a big year, with AI threaded through nearly everything, so let’s run through the seven features worth actually caring about, what each one does, and whether it is a genuine upgrade or just a nice-to-have.
1. An All-New Siri (the One That Actually Matters)
Let’s start with the headline. Siri is the centerpiece of iOS 27, and it is getting a full AI overhaul rather than another minor tune-up. If even most of what is rumored shows up, this is the biggest change to Apple’s assistant in over a decade.
Here is the rumored feature list:
- A standalone Siri app for iPhone, much like ChatGPT or Gemini
- A chatbot-style interface for back-and-forth conversation
- Real world knowledge, powered by a large language model foundation
- A new design tied into the Dynamic Island
- The ability to perform multiple actions from a single request
- Integrations with more third-party AI agents
- The long-delayed personal context, onscreen awareness, and app intents features Apple announced ages ago
- Systemwide “Ask Siri” buttons
That last group is the real foundation. Personal context lets Siri draw on your own data, onscreen awareness lets it understand what you are looking at, and app intents let it actually take action inside your apps. Those have been promised for a while now, and iOS 27 is reportedly where they finally land. If Apple delivers all of this, it genuinely opens a new chapter in its AI story. The catch, as always, is the gap between the demo and the shipping product.
2. Apple Photos Gets New AI Editing Tools
The Photos app is reportedly gaining three new AI-powered editing tools, and together they push it closer to the kind of generative editing you see in dedicated apps:
- Extend generates new image content beyond the original frame, filling in the scene when you change a crop.
- Enhance uses AI to automatically improve color, lighting, and overall image quality in one tap.
- Reframe is built mainly for spatial photos, letting you shift the perspective of a shot after it has already been taken.
There is a bonus here too. The existing Clean Up tool, the one for removing unwanted objects, is expected to get better thanks to Apple’s new Gemini partnership with Google. That is a recurring theme this year, and we will come back to it.
3. Visual Intelligence Comes to the Camera App
Apple introduced visual intelligence back in iOS 18, tied to the iPhone 16’s Camera Control button. In iOS 27 it is reportedly expanding with new capabilities and, crucially, getting baked right into the Camera app where people will actually find it.
Inside the Camera, there will be a new “Siri” mode sitting alongside the usual options like Photo and Video. Open it and you get all the existing visual intelligence features plus some new ones. According to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, those additions include scanning a nutrition label on food packaging to log dietary information, and capturing contact details straight from whatever the camera is pointed at, like a phone number or address on a business card.
Moving this into the Camera app is the smart move. Right now visual intelligence is buried behind a button press, and plenty of people have no idea it exists. Putting it front and center should finally get it used.
4. Apple Wallet Adds “Create a Pass”
Wallet keeps quietly getting more useful, and iOS 27 adds a feature that should meaningfully expand what you can keep in it. The new “Create a Pass” option lets you store more of the tickets and passes scattered across your life.
Per Gurman, you can build a pass from scratch or use the iPhone’s camera to turn a QR code into a digital ticket, with customization tools for styles, images, colors, and text fields so you can tailor what each pass shows.
Apple is testing three templates, each color-coded:
- Standard (orange): the default for any kind of pass.
- Membership (blue): aimed at places like gyms.
- Event (purple): for tickets to games, movies, and other occasions.
It is the kind of small, practical feature that does not make a keynote sizzle reel but earns a permanent spot on your phone. And it is far from the only one: we rounded up the iOS 27 hidden features Apple skipped on stage.
5. Apple Health Gets a Major Upgrade (Eventually)
Health is getting a real boost in iOS 27, and there is an interesting backstory. Apple had reportedly been building a paid “Apple Health+” subscription, but Eddy Cue decided to pivot and release the new features for free in the Health app instead. Good news for users.
The expected additions:
- Educational videos created by physicians and health experts
- AI-powered coaching and wellness suggestions
- More robust nutritional tracking (which pairs neatly with that new Camera nutrition scanning)
One caveat worth flagging: the latest reporting suggests these might not arrive with the first version of iOS 27, and could come in a later update. So it is not certain Apple even shows them off at WWDC. File this one under “coming, but maybe not on day one.”
6. A Smarter, Grammar-Focused Keyboard
Autocorrect could get a genuinely useful upgrade in iOS 27: grammar-focused alternative word suggestions. According to Bloomberg, Apple is working on a change that looks a lot like Grammarly, shifting the keyboard from just fixing misspellings to actually suggesting better word choices and catching grammar issues.
Like almost everything else on this list, it is expected to be AI-powered. For anyone who fires off a lot of messages and emails from their phone, this could quietly become one of the more-used features of the whole release.
7. Safari Can Auto-Name Your Tab Groups
If you live in Safari’s Tab Groups, iOS 27 may start naming them for you automatically using Apple Intelligence. It works along the same lines as the AI features Apple already uses elsewhere, like generating chapters in Apple Podcasts or creating sections inside Reminders lists, except here it reads the contents of a Tab Group and gives it a sensible name.
It is expected to be optional, so you can ignore it if you prefer to label things yourself. But for anyone whose Safari is a chaotic sea of tabs, it is a small convenience that could keep things a lot tidier.
Closing
Step back and one theme is impossible to miss: nearly every feature here is powered by AI, and a lot of it leans on Apple’s new Gemini partnership with Google. From the rebuilt Siri to the Photos tools to the smarter keyboard, iOS 27 is clearly Apple’s attempt to catch up in a space where it has been playing defense.
The ambition is there. The open question, as it always is with Apple and AI, is how much of this actually works as promised on day one versus how much gets the “coming later this year” treatment. We find out Monday.
Before the keynote: here are the 5 things actually worth watching for at WWDC 2026 today.
