Everything New You Can Do With Siri AI
When iOS 27 arrives, it will bring with it a fully revamped assistant for your iPhone.
Siri made its debut on the iPhone in 2011 , five years ahead of Google Assistant and 11 years before ChatGPT would open up to the public. Despite the head start, Apple's voice AI has been comprehensively overtaken in recent years, and made to look rather primitive compared to the many generative AI rivals it’s now up against.
With the launch of iOS 27 , Apple and Siri are fighting back. There's a new name— Siri AI —and a host of new capabilities that are coming to your iPhone.
These are the new features that you'll be able to make use of once iOS 27 appears on your handset, if you're running the iPhone 15 Pro or iPhone 15 Pro Max or later (including, of course, the iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone Duo ). Only these latest phones have the necessary on-board silicon to meet the higher AI processing demands.
You'll notice when Siri AI arrives that it spends some time indexing everything on your iPhone. That's so it can dig deep into your texts, emails, calendars, and whatever else you have stored on your phone (everything is kept on-device though—nothing gets sent back to Apple).
It means you can ask natural questions about text conversations, email interactions, and appointments—"What day is my work appraisal happening?" for example, or "Where did I say I'd meet Mom?"—and get informed, personalized answers back, based on what's already stored in your apps.
This works for photos and videos as well. Open up the Photos app and you're able to ask Siri AI to show you all the pictures of your pet, or the images you took on your last vacation, or all the photos of trees you've collected, via simple, conversational prompts.
