Apple finally fixed Siri. So why does it feel anticlimactic?
Apple's long-awaited AI overhaul finally makes Siri the assistant it was always supposed to be. Yet it arrives at a moment when simply being a capable AI assistant no longer feels revolutionary. After rounds of delays , Siri AI arrived in the consumer beta build of iOS 27, launched in July.
Key Takeaways
- The AI assistant now does what Apple promised: It understands your personal context, taps into broad world knowledge to answer your questions, and surfaces relevant information stored on your iPhone.
- That is not to say Apple's Siri AI isn't valuable or useful.
With Siri AI's launch, Apple delivered on its promises and then some.
- You can also ask it about things you've saved only as a photo, like your driver's license number from a pic of your license, or a QR code you screenshotted to reference later, as a reminder to visit someone's website.
You can launch websites and use apps via Siri, doing things like getting directions, playing music, editing a photo, drafting an email, playing your audiobooks, and much more.
- You can use Siri in the camera's viewfinder to learn about things in the real world or to help you split a restaurant bill with your friends.
In short, it's exactly what you always hoped Siri would be: a useful assistant that lets you use your iPhone easily, just by talking, and one that can answer questions of any sort instead of shuffling you off to the web.
- The only marvel is that, after so many years of failing to perform tasks correctly, it actually works.
The AI assistant now does what Apple promised: It understands your personal context, taps into broad world knowledge to answer your questions, and surfaces relevant information stored on your iPhone. And yet, the arrival feels somewhat anticlimactic. Apple finally has a functional - actually, a fairly impressive - AI assistant, but it's arrived past the time where such a launch feels novel and exciting.
If anything, the AI race has surged ahead in the months and years Apple has dawdled on AI. Today, AI tools are coding and building software, AI agents are completing multistep tasks, and AI is working alongside you, using your computer, reasoning, thinking, remembering, creating media, and more. Being a functional chatbot or AI helper isn't the breakthrough that it once would have been.
That is not to say Apple's Siri AI isn't valuable or useful. With Siri AI's launch, Apple delivered on its promises and then some. You can now have natural, back-and-forth conversations with Siri, which has settings that let you tweak the expressivity and pacing of its voice responses.
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