Apple has unveiled Siri AI, a redesigned version of its virtual assistant powered by Apple Intelligence, marking a major leap in conversational and personalized AI experiences.
The upgraded assistant features personal context understanding, onscreen awareness, and broader knowledge capabilities, enabling users to retrieve information from the web as well as from personal messages, emails, photos, and other content in real time.
Siri AI also includes a dedicated app to revisit conversations across its products, an expanded Visual Intelligence experience, and integrated writing tools.
With a bold new architecture uniquely designed to protect users’ privacy, Siri AI leverages the next generation of Apple Intelligence to bring state-of-the-art understanding and reasoning, along with powerful systemwide capabilities, to Apple’s operating systems.
Craig Federighi, Apple’s senior vice president of Software Engineering, said that, “We’re excited to introduce Siri AI, a dramatically more capable and conversational assistant designed to help users find information and get things done throughout the day. With access to broad world knowledge for up-to-date answers on virtually any topic, along with onscreen awareness and personal context understanding, Siri AI can help users take action across apps more naturally than ever.”
With even more systemwide app actions, Siri AI lets users get things done across apps, like drafting an email from scratch, or editing and sharing a set of photos. Using onscreen awareness, Siri AI can answer questions related to the content on a user’s screen.
“In addition, Siri AI can use broad world knowledge to get up-to-date information from the web on virtually any topic and generate a helpful answer, such as when and where to see the next solar eclipse, or when a musician is coming to town. Users can extend almost any response from Siri into a rich conversation and ask follow-up questions,” according to the statement.
New Siri AI features are already available for developer testing through the Apple Developer Program. Siri AI will be available for developer testing in a future watchOS 27 beta.
Apple said that the Siri AI will be available as a beta later this year for users with a supported device set to English, and it will quickly expand support for more languages.
