Siri AI takes over the swipe gesture for a lot of the iPhone and iPad top edge
Opening Notification Center is unchanged on iOS 27 and iPadOS 27 by default. However, enabling Siri AI changes a key swipe gesture on both iPhone and iPad.
One of the many ways of invoking Siri AI, once enabled, is by swiping down from the center of the top edge of your iPhone or iPad display. This previously opened Notification Center.
You can still access Notification Center by swiping down from the top-left corner once Siri AI is enabled. Alerts now animate in from the top left corner. This is a way to point users toward Notification Center’s smaller surface area.
Apple is greatly prioritizing Siri AI access in iOS 27. The majority of the top edge is devoted to invoking the new Siri experience.
The last time Apple made a change to accessing Notification Center came when Control Center moved from a swipe up gesture from the bottom to a top-right corner swipe down gesture on iPhone X. Apple later unified this experience across devices.
Notifications now live in the top left corner
Now it’s Notification Center’s turn to be put in the corner. On iPadOS 27 beta 1 in particular, the area above Home screen app icons was pretty much devoted to invoking Siri AI. The area for opening Notification Center actually shrank if you disable displaying AM/PM or the date.
Top comment by mz4srmsr
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I’ve been always swiping from the left corner to see my notifications. I didn’t even know you could swipe from the center to get to it as well 😂 I guess I’m good then?
Source:
https://9to5mac.com/2026/08/01/ios-27-just-broke-15-years-of-muscle-memory-on-iphone-and-ipad/
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