Everything new Siri AI can actually do when iOS 27 arrives

[GlassKnight89]

Apple's rebuilt assistant, now called Siri AI, arrives with iOS 27 on September 14th, and Wired's David Nield detailed the full set of new capabilities in a September 10th feature. The headline feature is personal context, letting Siri search a user's own texts, emails, calendars and other stored content on request, built on Apple's on-device Spotlight index that spends time indexing everything on an iPhone when the feature first activates. Siri AI also gains on-screen awareness, letting users simply ask about whatever's currently displayed rather than needing to take a screenshot first, and the ability to act inside apps directly rather than just answering questions about them

Every conversation now lives in a dedicated Siri app that uses iCloud to privately sync chat history across iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch and Apple Vision Pro, and users can adjust how the assistant's voice actually sounds. Apple's own press materials never mention Google, but Wired's reporting states Apple's third-generation foundation models were developed from the ground up with help from Google's Gemini models, while Apple maintains it isn't using Google's infrastructure and that no user data from Siri actions gets shared with Google specifically

For users, the practical distinction is that requests run on Apple's own devices and servers regardless of which company's underlying model expertise shaped the system. Curious what people think about this specific arrangement, does keeping processing entirely on Apple's own infrastructure while quietly building on Google's underlying model research meaningfully preserve Apple's privacy positioning, or is that framing more about branding than a genuinely different technical reality

Everything New You Can Do With Siri AIwww.wired.com

[Cheugy]

Requests running entirely on Apple's own devices and servers regardless of whose model research shaped the system is the actual substantive privacy claim here, worth remembering that's a genuinely different arrangement from simply routing queries to a third party's cloud

[Stephen24]

Personal context indexing everything on a phone when the feature first activates sounds powerful but also raises real questions about exactly what gets indexed and how long that data actually persists locally afterward

[IvoryRunner]

Syncing conversation history across every single Apple device through iCloud specifically is a smart continuity feature, picking up a Siri conversation on a different device without losing context matters a lot for how naturally this actually gets used daily

[GlobalBob37]

On-screen awareness replacing the screenshot workaround is honestly the single most immediately useful feature here, that specific friction point has bugged assistant users for years and removing it changes daily usage more than any flashier capability

[Mitchell93]

Curious how this specific implementation actually compares in practice against Google's own Gemini assistant and OpenAI's ChatGPT for the exact same on-screen awareness and personal context tasks, that head to head comparison matters more than any single feature list

[Myles99]

The Google collaboration being real but entirely unbranded is a genuinely interesting positioning choice, Apple gets access to genuinely capable underlying model research while keeping its own privacy-first branding fully intact for consumers