iOS 27 and macOS Golden Gate Public Beta: What to Expect

Key Child Safety Features

Apple previewed a major expansion of child safety and parental controls arriving with the fall updates . Key new capabilities, as detailed by Apple's newsroom and multiple outlets:

• Redesigned Screen Time — rebuilt to be more intuitive for parents, with clearer dashboards and simpler controls [1, 10].
• Ask to Browse — a new Safari feature requiring parental approval before a child can visit a website .
• Time Allowances — more flexible, per-app time limits that parents can adjust on the fly, similar to Google Family Link [5, 9].
• Expanded communication controls — limits on who children can contact and when, beyond just contacts [1, 10].
• App & website approval tools — parents can approve or block specific apps and sites from their own device [4, 10].
• Enhanced Child Accounts — streamlined setup when a new device is configured for a child [4, 10].

Apple stated these were developed in partnership with health experts and arrive under the same timeframe as new UK device-level child protection requirements .

New Siri AI Capabilities Powered by Foundation Models

Apple introduced "Siri AI" at WWDC 2026, built on a new Apple Foundation Models (AFM) framework co-developed with Google using Gemini technologies [6, 7, 8]. Key points:

• Third-generation AFM — a completely rebuilt on-device model that is "more intelligent; better at logic and tool calling" compared to prior versions [1, 4].
• Split architecture runs the model on-device via the Neural Engine for privacy, with Private Cloud Compute for heavier tasks — both free for developers and users [2, 6].
• Multimodal support — the Foundation Models framework now accepts image inputs alongside text [2, 5].
• Agentic capabilities — new primitives for building custom skills and agent experiences within apps [1, 5].
• Contextual awareness — Siri AI can understand personal context, execute multi-step tasks, and take actions across apps .
• Rollout plan — developer testing began June 8; Siri AI will ship as an English-language beta later in 2026, with additional languages to follow [3, 4, 6].