Apple announces visionOS 27 with Siri AI

Stevie Bonifield

is a news writer covering all things consumer tech. Stevie started out at Laptop Mag writing news and reviews on hardware, gaming, and AI.

Along with new software for Macs and iPhones, Apple announced visionOS 27 during its keynote presentation at WWDC on Monday. Like its other platforms, visionOS 27 will feature Apple’s updated Siri AI assistant and the new dedicated Siri app. You can use visual intelligence to ask Siri about content on visionOS’s floating displays, or ask Siri about objects in the real world by looking at them.

It will also support using the panoramas you’ve photographed as immersive scenes and environments in visionOS. Apple said the Vision Pro will be able to connect to Wi-Fi “up to 3x faster,” and a new “extra-small” widget size will allow more customizations.

This is the fourth major version of Apple’s mixed reality operating system since it launched with the Vision Pro headset in 2024. The “liquid glass” redesign Apple introduced across all of its operating systems last year had appeared first in the glossy, transparent look of visionOS.

Last year’s visionOS update added support for PSVR2 controllers, hands-free scrolling with Look to Scroll, the ability to unlock an iPhone while wearing a Vision Pro, support for relaying calls from an iPhone, and an improved version of Apple’s 3D “Persona” avatars. It also introduced spatial widgets that stay in any spot in the physical world where users “place” them, like a virtual clock in your real living room.

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Stevie Bonifield