Apple Intelligence, iOS 27, and the Modeless Promise: A Raskin Reading

June 26, 2026

At WWDC 2026, Apple announced what it is calling Siri AI: a rebuilt assistant with onscreen awareness, access to personal context across mail, messages, and calendars, and the ability to execute multi-step tasks across applications from a single spoken or typed request. iOS 27 ships with this as its central intelligence layer, powered by an architecture that Apple describes as combining on-device processing, Private Cloud Compute, and Google Gemini models for broader-knowledge queries.