With Siri AI enabled, swiping down from the center of the top edge now summons Siri instead of the longstanding Notification Center, changing a familiar gesture for users.

Notification Center remains accessible by swiping down from the top-left corner when Siri AI is active, and alerts now animate in from that corner.

iOS 27 is scheduled to launch on Monday, with a rollout beginning around 10 a.m. Pacific time and 1 p.m. Eastern time, following a summer of beta testing.

A major redesign in iOS 27 shifts how Notification Center opens on iPhone and iPad, altering access to alerts that have existed since iOS 5 in 2011.

In iPadOS 27 beta, the Notification Center region is redesigned to span roughly two app-column widths on the left, with Control Center on the right and Siri access taking the remaining space, while earlier betas showed a shrinking Notification Center area.

Apple is prioritizing Siri AI access in iOS 27, dedicating much of the top edge area to invoking Siri rather than Notification Center, a change notably affecting iPad.

The change introduces a learning curve as users adapt to new muscle memory, and there is currently no option to disable invoking Siri from the top-middle swipe according to early impressions.