Apple has introduced Siri AI, a completely reengineered version of its voice assistant, built on the company’s new Apple Intelligence platform and designed to deliver more capable, conversational and context-aware help across its hardware lineup. The assistant is positioned as a system-level feature that can draw simultaneously on a user’s personal data, onscreen content and web information, while maintaining what Apple describes as a “bold” privacy architecture grounded in on-device processing and its Private Cloud Compute infrastructure.
Siri AI is intended to move beyond transactional commands toward more natural, back-and-forth interactions. It can answer queries that combine personal context and web results, such as retrieving restaurant recommendations from messages, surfacing hotel confirmations from old emails, or identifying photos from a recent trip, and then extend those responses into longer conversations with follow-up questions. Apple says this contextual understanding also applies to third-party apps that tie into Spotlight, broadening Siri’s reach beyond first-party services.
The assistant is deeply integrated across devices and interfaces. On iPhone, users can invoke Siri AI with the familiar “Hey Siri” phrase, the side button or a swipe from the Dynamic Island, while on iPad and Mac it is built into Spotlight and system context menus to answer questions about images, files or text displayed on screen. Apple Watch, CarPlay, AirPods and Apple Vision Pro also support the new experience, with Vision Pro adding a spatial 3D visualisation that users can place and address in their environment. An all-new Siri app consolidates conversation history and syncs it privately via iCloud across iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch and Vision Pro, allowing users to resume interactions on any device.
Under the hood, Siri has been rebuilt on top of Apple’s new foundation models, which run on device and, for more demanding tasks, on Apple servers using Private Cloud Compute. According to Apple, when requests are handled in the cloud, personal data is neither stored nor accessible to Apple or third parties, and external experts can inspect the system to validate those claims. A new, more powerful on-device model enables more expressive and customizable voices, along with notably improved dictation that automatically manages capitalization, punctuation and formatting based on natural speech.
Apple is also extending Siri’s capabilities into multimodal and writing experiences. A new Siri mode in the iPhone Camera app lets the assistant “see” through the viewfinder to interpret real-world scenes, including splitting a bill with friends via Apple Cash in the United States and providing nutritional information about food. Visual Intelligence, which allows users to ask questions about content on screen, is expanding to iPad, Mac and Apple Vision Pro, with dedicated shortcuts and screenshot integration. In parallel, integrated Writing Tools let users generate and refine text almost anywhere in the system, with Siri adapting tone and formatting to match how users typically communicate in Mail and Messages and offering suggestions and automatic proofreading, including inside most third-party apps.
Siri AI features are available for developer testing starting today through the Apple Developer Program across iOS 27, iPadOS 27, macOS 27 and visionOS 27, with watchOS 27 support to follow. A public beta will roll out later this year for users with supported devices set to English, with broader language support planned over time. Apple Intelligence and Siri AI will run on a defined set of recent hardware, including iPhone 16 models or later, iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Max, selected A17 Pro- and A18 Pro-based devices, and M1 or newer iPad and Mac systems, as well as Apple Vision Pro and recent Apple Watch models. In the European Union, Mac, Apple Watch and Vision Pro users will gain access when set to a supported language, but Siri AI will not initially be available on iOS and iPadOS, while in China the assistant and other Apple Intelligence features will be withheld as the company navigates regulatory requirements.
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