Today Apple announced its lineup of new accessibility features coming in iOS 27, iPadOS 27, macOS 27, and more, with an upgrade to Voice Control offering an exciting preview of agentic capabilities the new Siri will reportedly gain.
iOS 27 upgrades Voice Control with AI, offering preview of Siri’s rumored agentic features
Every year Apple previews new accessibility features ahead of WWDC, offering the first official reveal of improvements in forthcoming versions of iOS, macOS, and more.
One standout in this year’s batch of features is that Voice Control in iOS 27 will support natural language thanks to Apple Intelligence.
From Apple’s press release:
Clearly the feature has tremendous benefits for accessibility purposes. But as confirmed by Mark Gurman, the underlying agentic capabilities are also baked into iOS 27’s new Siri.
Back in 2024, Apple announced that Siri would be able to:
- Perform hundreds of new actions in and across apps
- Gain awareness of everything on your screen
Those features ultimately got delayed. But now, Apple has effectively previewed a version of them via this Voice Control upgrade.
This connection was spotted by Dylan McDonald, who shared Apple’s demo video:
As the video shows, Siri gaining agentic capabilities could prove an extremely powerful tool across iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Vision Pro.
There’s something magical about being able to just speak to your device about anything you’re seeing and have it understand and take action.
And based on Apple’s own 2024 announcements, and reporting from Mark Gurman and others, that’s exactly what’s coming in just a few weeks.
For more on what’s rumored for iOS 27’s new Siri, see our coverage here.
What new Siri features are you most excited for in iOS 27? Let us know in the comments.
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