WWDC 2026: Siri’s Big AI Overhaul And What Else To Expect From Apple

Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) 2026 kicks off on Monday at 10 a.m. PT / 1 p.m. ET, and this year’s event is shaping up to be all about artificial intelligence with Siri at the centre of it.

Apple will stream the keynote live via the Apple Developer app, its website, and the Apple Developer YouTube channel, giving developers and consumers a direct look at how the company plans to push deeper into AI across iOS, visionOS and more.

The most closely watched announcement is a major AI upgrade to Siri. The assistant is expected to become more conversational and context-aware, better at handling multi-step tasks, and more natural when interacting across apps and services. Under the hood, the revamped Siri will leverage Google’s Gemini technology to boost its capabilities.

Beyond the built-in assistant, recent Bloomberg reporting points to a standalone Siri app designed to compete more directly with AI chatbots such as ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini. This app is expected to offer richer, chatbot-style interactions rather than just the traditional voice-assistant model.

Apple may also introduce conversation controls similar to those found in modern messaging apps, letting users set timers for automatically deleting Siri conversations after 30 days, after a year, or keeping them indefinitely.

According to reporting from The Information, Apple is also planning AI agent integration with the App Store. Details remain limited, but AI agents are generally designed to take on tasks on behalf of users — for example booking reservations, managing everyday to-dos, editing documents or controlling smart home devices.

A new “Visual Intelligence” section is expected to appear within the Camera app, replacing the previous Visual Intelligence feature that lived behind the Camera Control button. This refreshed area should include a dedicated Siri mode alongside existing options like Photo, Video, Portrait and Panorama.

The Visual Intelligence feature will tap into Google Image Search to identify objects captured by the user, giving the camera a more powerful layer of real-time understanding of what it is seeing.

The Photos app is also set for Apple Intelligence-powered enhancements. Expected features include:

• Intelligent scene recommendations to help optimise photos.
• Automatic object removal for cleaner images.
• AI photo editing that responds to natural language requests, allowing users to describe the edits they want instead of manually adjusting every control.

On the creative side, Apple plans to upgrade its Image Playground app. Improvements will focus on higher-quality image generation, more artistic styles, better character consistency and richer editing controls. At the same time, the interface for creating images is expected to become simpler, with fewer manual controls and a new “describe a change” option for editing existing images using plain language.

Another potential feature is “suggested Genmoji”, which would propose custom emojis based on a user’s media and text interactions. Users may also gain the ability to generate AI wallpapers that match specific themes or moods.

AI is also likely to appear in more practical, day-to-day experiences. Notable changes are rumoured for the Wallet app, including a new bill-splitting feature to make shared expenses easier to manage. Users would be able to photograph a receipt and generate payment requests for multiple people in just a few steps.

Across its product line, Apple is expected to enhance the AI-powered Siri experience on its devices and to extend Apple Intelligence features more broadly, coupled with stability updates. These additions are set to touch everything from communication and productivity to photo management, although Apple has not yet provided official detail.

WWDC 2026 will confirm how many of these expected changes arrive immediately and how Apple frames its partnership with Google’s Gemini and broader Apple Intelligence roadmap for developers.