en.Wedoany.com Reported - Apple has announced that its 37th annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC 2026) will be held online from June 8 to 12 local time, with a special in-person event at Apple Park on the opening day. This year's conference will unveil next-generation operating systems across all platforms, including iOS 27, macOS 27, and iPadOS 27, and is expected to introduce new Mac devices powered by the M5 series chip. The central focus will be the completely revamped Siri AI and the on-device computing power upgrade brought by the M5 chip.
In iOS 27, Siri will undergo its most thorough overhaul since its debut in 2011. Apple plans to launch a standalone Siri app, internally codenamed "Campos," shifting from a traditional voice assistant form to an independent chatbot interface similar to ChatGPT. On the technical roadmap, Apple reached a deep cooperation agreement with Google in January this year, integrating Google's Gemini series models as the underlying technical support for "Apple Foundation Models." This equips Siri with deep natural semantic understanding, logical reasoning, and multi-turn conversation capabilities, while also supporting multimodal interaction with text and images, allowing users to upload pictures and files for analysis. Regarding privacy protection, Apple has added an option for automatic chat history deletion and employs a private cloud computing architecture to ensure user data is not used for Google's model training. iOS 27 also significantly expands the "Apple Intelligence" visual intelligence system, adding health features like a nutrition label scanner, and enabling real-time text translation or object recognition within the camera viewfinder. For developers, Apple will provide new APIs allowing third-party apps to integrate AI agents into the system ecosystem. The search bar will invoke Siri by default, while also supporting users in manually switching to third-party chatbots like ChatGPT or Gemini.
The overall interaction codename for iOS 27 is "Rave." It does not radically overturn the "liquid glass" design language but instead focuses optimization efforts on system fluidity and bug fixes, enhancing operational responsiveness by significantly reducing animation latency. This approach has been described by the industry as akin to the classic "Snow Leopard-style" performance optimization. Some underlying architectural designs have already begun adapting for future foldable devices, laying the software groundwork for subsequent hardware forms.
macOS 27 will completely cease support for Mac computers with Intel processors, only being compatible with devices featuring Apple's proprietary Apple Silicon chips, marking the definitive end of the Intel era for Apple's integrated hardware and software ecosystem. The industry widely predicts Apple will launch new Mac mini and Mac Studio models equipped with the all-new M5 Pro and M5 Max chips. The M5 series chips utilize TSMC's third-generation 3nm process (N3P), delivering a 3.5x increase in AI computing power over the M4, with CPU and GPU performance improving by 30% and 50% respectively, and support for the Wi-Fi 7 network standard. Supply chain sources indicate that new hardware will begin phased deliveries from mid-June, aligning with the software development rhythm of macOS 27. On the mobile side, the underlying "screen awareness" capability in iOS 27 grants AI permission for seamless cross-app collaboration, enabling it to automatically recognize email content, extract schedules, and populate them into the calendar without interrupting the user, paving the software path for the iPhone 18 set to launch in the fall.
This WWDC signals Apple's pragmatic catch-up strategy in the AI era. Apple has signed a technology licensing agreement with Google worth approximately $1 billion annually, leveraging external large models to rapidly address Siri's intelligence shortcomings, while simultaneously reinforcing its security moat of on-device and private cloud hybrid computing through the computational advantages of its self-developed M-series chips. As hundreds of millions of existing devices receive the iOS 27 upgrade in the fall, Apple will roll out generative AI experiences to a massive global user base in one sweep. The battle for the AI entry point over the next decade is kicking off this June.
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