From Engadget · Filipe Espósito · · 1m 30s
Apple's new Siri finally understands your life
iOS 27 rebuilds Siri with AI that learns your personal context, making it actually useful for the first time.
In brief
iOS 27 rebuilds Siri with AI that learns your personal context, making it actually useful for the first time. Siri can now search your emails, messages, and apps to answer questions about your life, not just execute pre-programmed commands. Originally reported by Engadget.
Siri has always been limited
Since 2011, Siri could only handle pre-programmed commands like playing songs or setting alarms. It never understood context and often just searched the web instead.
iOS 27 rebuilds Siri with AI
The new Siri understands your personal context by learning from your emails, messages, and apps. This makes it genuinely useful for the first time.
Ask Siri about your life
Need a hotel address from your emails? Ask Siri. Can't remember a song a friend recommended? Siri searches your messages. It even finds surprise songs from Taylor Swift concerts on Apple Music.
Works with third-party apps too
Siri AI integrates with compatible apps like Flighty and Gentler Streak, expanding what you can do beyond Apple's own services.
Not everyone can use it yet
You need an iPhone 15 Pro or later, or a Mac or iPad with an M1 chip or newer. Siri AI is only in English for now, with French, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese and Spanish coming in October.
You may need to join a waiting list
Even with a compatible device, Apple is rolling out Siri AI gradually. You might have to wait to access the new virtual assistant, though it usually doesn't take long.
In short
Siri can now search your emails, messages, and apps to answer questions about your life, not just execute pre-programmed commands.
