Apple Unveils Five New Apps Including Standalone Siri AI at WWDC 2026
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Hartley Charlton
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Apple unveiled five new apps last week, including four announced at WWDC 2026 alongside upcoming fall software updates. The most notable is Siri AI, a complete rebuild of Apple's voice assistant that now comes as a dedicated standalone app with chatbot-like capabilities including web search, document evaluation, math problem solving, and cross-app actions. One app was released in beta for developers, and another was released independently by Apple's subsidiary Claris.
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Like other chatbots, Siri can search the web and access general world knowledge, evaluate documents, solve math problems, and take action in and across apps.
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