Apple opens its new Siri AI to everyone with the iOS 27 public beta
If you've been waiting to try Apple's revamped Siri without installing a developer beta, you now can. The company on Tuesday released the iOS 27 public beta, giving iPhone owners early access to its AI-powered assistant and other new features before the software's official launch this fall. Apple is opening up its biggest-ever Siri overhaul to a broader audience with the release of the iOS 27 public beta, giving everyday users the chance to try out the new AI assistant ahead of its broader launch later this fall.
Key Takeaways
- The public beta marks the first time Apple has made its AI-powered Siri widely available beyond developers.
5 billion active devices worldwide, even if only a fraction of users install the public beta, it will still represent the largest test of Apple's redesigned AI assistant and its answer to ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and others.
- It can be accessed by saying "Hey Siri" or by pressing the side button, as before, as well as by swiping down from the Dynamic Island (the black bar at the top of the screen).
Plus, it's integrated into the iPhone's built-in search engine tool, Spotlight, making it more powerful than before because it can search for answers to almost any question.
- Under the hood, Siri AI leverages Apple Intelligence, including Apple's new Foundation Models that run on the device and use its Private Cloud Compute.
Apple built its Foundation Models in collaboration with Google and its Gemini model, but these models are not just some rebranded version of Gemini.
- In early tests of the developer version of Siri AI, the assistant was able to better handle basic tasks on the phone, like finding certain photos in your Photo Library, summarizing group texts, adding an appointment sent via text to your calendar, and looking up nutritional information about what's in your camera view.
It was also better at responding to questions you would normally have to search the web to answer, such as when an upcoming local event is happening, or what's happening in the news.
- Overall, the developer betas this year have been fairly stable, which makes the public beta much easier to recommend this time around.
Stats & Key Facts
- #Apple is opening up its biggest-ever Siri overhaul to a broader audience with the release of the iOS 27 public beta, giving everyday users the chance to try out the new AI assistant ahead of its broader launch later this fall.
- #5 billion active devices worldwide, even if only a fraction of users install the public beta, it will still represent the largest test of Apple's redesigned AI assistant and its answer to ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and others.
The public beta marks the first time Apple has made its AI-powered Siri widely available beyond developers. 5 billion active devices worldwide, even if only a fraction of users install the public beta, it will still represent the largest test of Apple's redesigned AI assistant and its answer to ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and others. The Siri AI update , which was officially announced at Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference in June, turns Apple's aging voice assistant into a more capable, AI-powered tool that can access information on a user's device, including emails, photos, and messages, as well as respond to what's on the screen and ground its answers in world knowledge, similar to any modern-day AI chatbot.
It's also more deeply integrated across the operating system. It can be accessed by saying "Hey Siri" or by pressing the side button, as before, as well as by swiping down from the Dynamic Island (the black bar at the top of the screen). Plus, it's integrated into the iPhone's built-in search engine tool, Spotlight, making it more powerful than before because it can search for answers to almost any question.
For the first time, Siri has also been given its own stand-alone app, a user experience that people already comfortable with chatbots like ChatGPT or Gemini may prefer. However, because Siri is so deeply integrated throughout the iPhone, accessing it via an app seems somewhat unnecessary. In addition to iOS 27 on iPhone, the upgraded Siri is available across all other Apple products, including iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, CarPlay, AirPods, Apple TV, and Vision Pro.
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