Amid all the talk about Apple’s long-delayed new Siri, the question of what the new AI personal assistant would look like has barely come up—other than the rumor claiming that on devices with Dynamic Islands, Siri’s visual aspects will materialize within the Dynamic Island “pill” when first activated.
But if the latest column from Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman is to be believed, there’s a possibility that Apple may be giving Siri a makeover that could replace or at least add to its classic imagery reminiscent of Navi the fairy from Zelda with a 90s Windows screensaver happening inside her orb head.
At least one part of Siri’s new visual profile, Gurman says, will be the harsh, overexposed glow of the “26” in the teaser image for Apple’s 2026 Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC).
Gurman says his anonymous sources with insider knowledge of Apple tell him a visual plan “currently being tested” is a significant revamp: a prompt inside the Dynamic Island Pill that says “Search or Ask,” along with a cursor that glows like that “26” in the WWDC graphic above.
Another image elsewhere on the Apple Developer site advertising a “special event at Apple Park” to kick off WWDC on June 8 features the same glow around a pair of white, concentric rings.
In photography terms, that overexposed, glowing blowout look is likely an imitation of something called halation. Halation around a white detail on a black background suggests such intense overexposure that some of the color distorts in the black—sometimes producing blues and reds that bleed into the darker areas of the image.
Halation isn’t necessarily a mistake. In fact, in iPhone photography, some people like halation a whole lot, and will even download expensive apps to insert more of it into their photos.
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