In summary:
- Macworld reports that iOS 27 may introduce a new Siri mode in the iPhone Camera app, integrating Visual Intelligence features for enhanced functionality.
- This upgrade appears significant for users seeking improved AI capabilities, including reading nutritional labels, adding contacts, and reduced ChatGPT dependency.
- The feature is expected to be triggered by a Siri icon replacing the shutter button, with iOS 27 likely unveiling at WWDC in June.
Another day, another scoop from Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman on the features coming to iOS 27 this fall. Gurman leaked three new AI-powered photo-editing features just yesterday, and today he’s got another AI-based feature coming to iPhones.
According to his report, Apple is going to give Visual Intelligence a big upgrade, but will also make it easier to discover and use by integrating it into the Camera app via a new Siri mode. Think of it like any other camera mode—video, slo-mo, panorama, etc.—only when in Siri mode, the shutter will reportedly morph into a Siri icon to trigger Visual Intelligence.
We previously reported on the big upgrade coming to Visual Intelligence in iOS 27, with much less reliance on ChatGPT for information along with the ability to produce digital tickets/passes from paper ones, read and understand nutritional labels, and add phone numbers and addresses to Contacts.
Currently, Visual Intelligence can be summoned by pressing the Camera Button and holding it for a couple seconds or through Control Center, but placing the feature right in the Camera app will ensure almost every iPhone user discovers it and at least tries it out.
Apple will unveil iOS 27 (and all the OS 27 updates) at WWDC in June, and it is expected to release this September.
Author: Jason Cross, Senior Editor, Macworld
Jason has written about technology for more than 25 years - first in the gaming press, then focusing on enthusiast PCs and general technology. He enjoys learning how complicated technology works and explaining it in a way anyone can understand.