{"slug": "siri-ai-and-apple-intelligence-do-you-need-to-buy-a-new-iphone-ipad-or-mac", "title": "Siri AI and Apple Intelligence: Do you need to buy a new iPhone, iPad, or Mac?", "summary": "Apple's WWDC26 keynote introduced Siri AI and Apple Intelligence features, but users will need specific devices to access them. Only iPhone 17 Pro or later models support full on-device AI capabilities, while Intel-based Macs are entirely incompatible with the new AI features.", "body_md": "Apple’s WWDC26 keynote was focused on new AI-based features, including Siri AI and Apple Intelligence. The demonstrations during the keynote portray the new AI features as powerful ways for users to be more productive, efficient, and creative.\n\nBut in order to unleash all that power, you have to have a device that’s compatible. Because there is varying level of AI implementation here, the compatibility list seems as complicated as the tech created to run these features.\n\nThe compatibility list for each device breaks down to the following levels:\n\nxOS 27 compatibility without Apple Intelligence and Siri AI\n\nxOS 27 compatibility including Apple Intelligence and Siri AI\n\nDevices that can run xOS 27 and Apple Intelligence/Siri AI with on-device AI models\n\nThe main difference with the on-device AI models is, according to Apple, “helpful features like expressive voices and higher-accuracy dictation.” (Learn more about Apple’s AI models.) Here’s a lowdown on the level of AI features Apple will offer in the xOS 27 updates this fall, and the devices that are compatible with them.\n\niPhone compatibility\n\nApple\n\nSummary\n\nIf you want to be able to run everything–iOS 27, Apple Intelligence, and Apple Intelligence features that use on-device models–you need an iPhone 17 Pro or later, or an iPhone Air.\n\nTo be able to run iOS 27 and Apple Intelligence without the on-device model features, you need an iPhone 15 Pro, iPhone 16 or iPhone 16 Pro, or an iPhone Air.\n\nAny other iPhone as far back as the iPhone 11 will run iOS 27 without Apple Intelligence.\n\niOS 27 is compatible with:\n\niPhone SE (2nd generation)\n\niPhone 11 and later\n\niPhone 11 Pro and Pro Max and later\n\niPhone 12 mini and later\n\niPhone 14 Plus and later\n\niPhone 16e and later\n\niPhone Air\n\nHowever, Apple Intelligence and Siri AI are not compatible with all the iPhones on the above list. iOS 27 with Apple Intelligence and Siri AI requires:\n\niPhone 16 and later\n\niPhone 15 Pro or Pro Max and later\n\niPhone 16 Plus\n\niPhone 16e and later\n\niPhone Air\n\nApple Intelligence compatibility goes a step further. During the keynote, Apple’s Craig Federighi said, “Our most powerful on-device model and the features it enables, like expressive voices and more advanced dictation, will be coming to our most capable iPhone, iPad, and Mac systems.” The list of iPhones that support the “most powerful” on-device Apple Intelligence models is short:\n\niPadOS 27 with Apple Intelligence and Siri AI requires an iPad Air or Pro with an M1 chip or later. It also works on the A17 Pro iPad mini.\n\niPadOS 27 is compatible with the following:\n\niPad Pro (M4 and later)\n\niPad Pro 12.9‑inch (4th generation and later)\n\niPad Pro 11‑inch (2nd generation and later)\n\niPad Air 13- and 11-inch (M2 and later)\n\niPad Air 11-inch (4th generation and later)\n\niPad (A16)\n\niPad (9th generation and later)\n\niPad mini (A17 Pro)\n\niPad mini (6th generation and later)\n\niPadOS 27 with Apple Intelligence and Siri AI works on a limited number of iPads. That includes the following:\n\niPad Pro (M1 and later)\n\niPad Air (M1 and later)\n\niPad mini (A17 Pro)\n\nIf you are interested in using iPadOS 27 and the most powerful on-device Apple Intelligence models, you need an M4 iPad or later with at least 12GB of RAM. That includes:\n\niPad Pro (M4 or later)\n\niPad Air (M4 or later)\n\nMac compatibility\n\nApple\n\nSummary\n\nIf you have a Mac with Apple silicon, you can run macOS 27, Apple Intelligence and Siri AI.\n\nTo run macOS 27, Apple Intelligence and Siri AI with on-device models, you need a Mac with an M3 chip or faster and 12GB of RAM.\n\nIntel Macs are not compatible.\n\nmacOS 27, Apple Intelligence and Siri AI are compatible with:\n\nMacBook Neo (2026)\n\nMacBook Air with Apple silicon (2020 and later)\n\nMacBook Pro with Apple silicon (2020 and later)\n\niMac with Apple silicon (2021 and later)\n\nMac mini with Apple silicon (2020 and later)\n\nMac Studio (2022 and later)\n\nMac Pro with Apple silicon (2023)\n\nApple will be implementing Apple Intelligence features that use on-device models, which require an M3 chip or faster and 12GB of RAM. These Macs support the most powerful on-device Apple Intelligence models (12GB RAM required):\n\nMacBook Air (2024 and later)\n\nMacBook Pro (November 2023 and later)\n\niMac (2023 and later)\n\nMac mini (2024 and later)\n\nMac Studio (2025 and later)\n\nApple Watch compatibility\n\nApple\n\nFirst, watchOS 27 with Apple Intelligence and Siri AI requires an iPhone that is compatible with iOS 27 with Apple Intelligence and Siri AI (see “iPhone compatibility” section above). Once that requirement is met, the following Apple Watches are supported:", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/siri-ai-and-apple-intelligence-do-you-need-to-buy-a-new-iphone-ipad-or-mac", "canonical_source": "https://www.macworld.com/article/3160007/siri-ai-and-apple-intelligence-do-you-need-to-buy-a-new-iphone-ipad-or-mac.html", "published_at": "2026-06-10 19:05:08+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-06-11 19:03:57.919901+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "ai-products", "ai-tools", "natural-language-processing", "ai-infrastructure"], "entities": ["Apple", "Siri", "Apple Intelligence", "WWDC26", "iOS 27", "iPhone 17 Pro", "iPhone Air", "iPhone 15 Pro"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/siri-ai-and-apple-intelligence-do-you-need-to-buy-a-new-iphone-ipad-or-mac", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/siri-ai-and-apple-intelligence-do-you-need-to-buy-a-new-iphone-ipad-or-mac.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/siri-ai-and-apple-intelligence-do-you-need-to-buy-a-new-iphone-ipad-or-mac.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/siri-ai-and-apple-intelligence-do-you-need-to-buy-a-new-iphone-ipad-or-mac.jsonld"}}