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Hands-On With iOS 27's Siri AI

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The smarter, more capable version of Siri is finally here, available in iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS Golden Gate. The updates are limited to developers right now, but there's a lot to look forward to this fall.


Personal Context is a Siri capability that distinguishes Siri AI from other chatbots like Claude and OpenAI. Siri has access to the data on your iPhone, from emails and messages to photos and files. Siri can find anything you're looking for. Apple rebuilt its search index for Siri AI, and it's more comprehensive for a better search experience.

Siri can see what's on your screen with onscreen awareness, and answer questions about what you're looking at. If there's an image on Instagram and you want to know where it was taken, you can just ask Siri where it was taken and get a response. Visual Intelligence is now part of the Camera app, and Siri can answer questions about anything you take a picture of.

Like other chatbots, Siri can search the web and access general world knowledge, so it can provide responses to any questions you might have. It can evaluate documents, solve math problems, craft recipes, walk you through DIY tasks, help you plan a party, and more.

Siri can take action in and across apps, getting detailed maps directions with multiple stops, editing and sharing photos, or writing an email from scratch in your own writing style. It can do multiple tasks that are included in the same request.

Siri is located in the iPhone's Dynamic Island, and there's a glassy new Siri bubble with bright colors that pops up when Siri is activated. You can use Hey Siri or hold down the side button, but Siri also comes up with a swipe down from the top center of the display. Responses show up in that same area, and if you swipe on a response, you can get more information and ask follow-up questions.

Apple also created a full Siri app where you can revisit past conversations and start a new conversation. The Siri app syncs across devices, so you can start a conversation on your iPhone and wrap it up on your Mac. Siri AI is available in iOS 27, iPadOS 27, macOS Golden Gate, watchOS 27, and visionOS 27, plus it works on AirPods and CarPlay.

Siri AI has the same device requirements as Apple Intelligence, so you'll need an iPhone 15 Pro or later to use it. Siri AI is available in beta right now, and Apple is still refining. iOS 27 is limited to developers, with a public beta set to come out in July. iOS 27 with Siri AI will launch in September.

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I've had access since early this morning.

a) its auto-correction is horrible.
b) it can't generate results in any type of .doc or .pdf
c) its functionality is ridiculously limited compared to Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, etc.
d) results seem to scrape from popular sites over relevance to query
e) I asked it what its own top capabilities were. LOL - it referenced 3 popular HR sites and gave me a mini-breakdown ln a format expected in a job interview.
f) I asked it, just now, for a recipe. The damn thing (spoken request) will only tell me about recipes - it won't give me an actual recipe for what I specifically requested. I can't even tap on the result and click-through to a full recipe.

and.. I'm out. This is a gimmick, still, at this point. Let's hope its system integration is where it shines.
 
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what link may I use to get help re importing photos into mac via usbc cable?

with IOS27, opening Mac Photos shows the phone in left column but reports No Photos
 
jimmydx said:
Apple should not be encouraging us to swipe down from the Dynamic Island to activate Siri AI. This will lead to perpetually smeared selfies with finger oil or worse 😕.
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They should've kept the initial ways of invoking Siri as the standard (side button, and double tapping on the bottom of the screen). Having to reach up to the dynamic island is already finger gymnastics as it is, but also as you stated it will smudge your front camera time and time again lol... Granted the aforementioned methods of invoking Siri are still present (At least I want to say they still are) so it's not THAT big of a deal. Though in my opinion it's just not very thoughtful design choice/ergonomic to move yet another point of contact all the way up on the top part of the display when we interact with the bottom part of the display significantly more throughout the day than with the top (especially the dynamic island)...
 
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The smarter, more capable version of Siri is finally here, available in iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS Golden Gate. The updates are limited to developers right now, but there's a lot to look forward to this fall.


Personal Context is a Siri capability that distinguishes Siri AI from other chatbots like Claude and OpenAI. Siri has access to the data on your iPhone, from emails and messages to photos and files. Siri can find anything you're looking for. Apple rebuilt its search index for Siri AI, and it's more comprehensive for a better search experience.

Siri can see what's on your screen with onscreen awareness, and answer questions about what you're looking at. If there's an image on Instagram and you want to know where it was taken, you can just ask Siri where it was taken and get a response. Visual Intelligence is now part of the Camera app, and Siri can answer questions about anything you take a picture of.

Like other chatbots, Siri can search the web and access general world knowledge, so it can provide responses to any questions you might have. It can evaluate documents, solve math problems, craft recipes, walk you through DIY tasks, help you plan a party, and more.

Siri can take action in and across apps, getting detailed maps directions with multiple stops, editing and sharing photos, or writing an email from scratch in your own writing style. It can do multiple tasks that are included in the same request.

Siri is located in the iPhone's Dynamic Island, and there's a glassy new Siri bubble with bright colors that pops up when Siri is activated. You can use Hey Siri or hold down the side button, but Siri also comes up with a swipe down from the top center of the display. Responses show up in that same area, and if you swipe on a response, you can get more information and ask follow-up questions.

Apple also created a full Siri app where you can revisit past conversations and start a new conversation. The Siri app syncs across devices, so you can start a conversation on your iPhone and wrap it up on your Mac. Siri AI is available in iOS 27, iPadOS 27, macOS Golden Gate, watchOS 27, and visionOS 27, plus it works on AirPods and CarPlay.

Siri AI has the same device requirements as Apple Intelligence, so you'll need an iPhone 15 Pro or later to use it. Siri AI is available in beta right now, and Apple is still refining. iOS 27 is limited to developers, with a public beta set to come out in July. iOS 27 with Siri AI will launch in September.

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I have siri and anything apple intelligence firmly switched off. Never will need or want it. 👍
 
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Loving all these people saying “I’m out”, and “it doesn’t do this” on beta software that is not launching for months and has been available for testing for literally a few hours. 🙄
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Spoiler: these people haven't actually used it. Or they used with it with the intention of validating their negative preconceptions.

It reminds me of the people who post about new video games on launch day and say "I just rolled the end credits, and the game was pure garbage." They played the game not for enjoyment, but for the attention of being first to trash it on the internet.
 
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Siri could’ve been an industry leader if Tim Cook hadn’t foolishly fired Scott Forstall just one year after it was released. Siri, while problematic upon initial release, was ahead of its time. Forstall is a visionary and a perfectionist on a Steve Jobs-like level, and Cook was too clueless and mediocre to recognize that. Forstall’s perfectionism would’ve likely ironed out the kinks in Siri over a decade ago, and thus set the stage for it being an industry leader today, instead of lagging behind.
 
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TestedLion said:
I've had access since early this morning.

a) its auto-correction is horrible.
b) it can't generate results in any type of .doc or .pdf
c) its functionality is ridiculously limited compared to Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, etc.
d) results seem to scrape from popular sites over relevance to query
e) I asked it what its own top capabilities were. LOL - it referenced 3 popular HR sites and gave me a mini-breakdown ln a format expected in a job interview.
f) I asked it, just now, for a recipe. The damn thing (spoken request) will only tell me about recipes - it won't give me an actual recipe for what I specifically requested. I can't even tap on the result and click-through to a full recipe.

and.. I'm out. This is a gimmick, still, at this point. Let's hope its system integration is where it shines.
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One tiny step up from “Do you want me to search the web?”
 
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ThomasJL said:
Siri could’ve been an industry leader if Tim Cook hadn’t foolishly fired Scott Forstall just one year after it was released. Siri, while problematic upon initial release, was ahead of its time. Forstall is a visionary and a perfectionist on a Steve Jobs-like level, and Cook was too clueless and mediocre to recognize that. Forstall’s perfectionism would’ve likely ironed out the kinks in Siri over a decade ago, and thus set the stage for it being an industry leader today, instead of lagging behind.
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For me, Cook was the embodiment of the “Peter Principle”.
 
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One Sunday evening, the wife was watching TV while the husband was looking at his phone.

Then the husband stood up and went to have a shower.

The wife picked up his phone and asked Siri:

Hey Siri, show me the ring I last bought for my wife.

Siri showed her the ring but she hadn't seen that ring before.

Then the wife asked:

Hey Siri, which hotel I last went to with my wife?

Siri told her the hotel but she hadn't been to the hotel before.

The she asked:

Hey Siri, show me photos of my last business trip.

Siri showed her the photos and she saw a woman wearing the ring Siri showed the wife in a group photo.

She put down the phone and the husband came back from the shower.

She continued to watch TV.
 
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