Hyderabad, June 9 -- Apple on Monday, June 8, previewed its next generation of software platforms at its annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), headlining the announcements with the entirely rebuilt version of Siri AI, alongside a sweeping upgrade to parental controls and across-the-board performance improvements.

Siri gets a ground-up rebuild

The centrepiece of this year's software announcements is Siri AI, which Apple described as a "profoundly more capable" replacement for its existing voice assistant, built on a new architecture designed to protect user privacy.

Unlike the current Siri, the new version can draw on personal context, searching across a user's messages, emails, and photos, to answer queries and take actions ac...