The iPhone’s virtual assistant got a glow-up with iOS 27 and finally lives up to Apple’s 2011 promise. In my early testing, Siri is just here to get things done.
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How to Change the Most Annoying iOS 27 Settings on Your iPhone
Siri AI Helped Me Avoid Eating Diarrhea Lettuce
0:00 Siri AI is Good Now?
0:23 Find a Photo
0:55 Prompts – And How Fast Is It
2:41 What if There’s No Answer To a Prompt?
3:02 It Can Make Recommendations
3:32 Beyond the Phone
4:25 Accessing Non Apple Apps
5:17 Siri is Not Always Perfect
6:03 Siri AI Shows Up in a Few Different Ways
6:27 Tell Me About This Parasite
6:57 Look Up Nutrition
7:27 Commerce Lookup and Siri Camera Mode
7:42 Ways Apple Intelligence Shows up in Photos
8:54 It Took a Couple Days to Index, but What Do You Think?
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Host: Patrick Holland
Shooter: Celso Bulgatti
Editor: Paul Encinas
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@Benjaminnolanautisticdiaper
July 20, 2026 at 9:35 am
I like Siri ai. I’m using it on my 16e.
@VohnJaymedia
July 20, 2026 at 9:43 am
We are on vacation and before we went I asked Siri Ai how long it would take to get to our destination with and without tolls…. and it did amazing shows both in menu with time, short explanation, and a button to start directions for both! 👏🏾👏🏾
@macjim
July 20, 2026 at 9:50 am
I don’t care how much it is improved, I will not have it on my iPhone, iPad or Mac and will not be using its rivals too… no data centres!!! 🏴
@pmbrig
July 20, 2026 at 10:32 am
Apple has configured Siri AI to do the bulk of its work on-device. It only uses cloud AI when it has to, and that is through a sandboxed partition that keeps your data away from Google. Apple is betting that this will be the model in the future; if so then it will significantly undercut the need for large data centers.
@Annabelle-z8j
July 20, 2026 at 9:54 am
Gmail app is not officially supported, but if you add your Gmail account to the Apple Mail app, Siri can access it ….
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July 20, 2026 at 11:50 am
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@macjim
July 20, 2026 at 9:58 am
It gave you five finger on the one hand? Surely four fingers and a thumb would be correct? 🤣🤦🏴
@Drucio1
July 20, 2026 at 10:00 am
Does it do other languages?
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July 20, 2026 at 10:27 am
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@Dr.Jekyll_
July 20, 2026 at 10:54 am
Bro imagine thinking 5 to 15 seconds is long time, that’s crazy 😅.
@dp1971
July 20, 2026 at 11:05 am
Seems every bit as pointless as the previous incarnation of Siri
@cds7762
July 20, 2026 at 11:24 am
On public beta and ❤Siri ai
@LeMatt87n
July 20, 2026 at 11:24 am
Jazzercise and cats… bro
@Spiderjin
July 20, 2026 at 11:36 am
the google calendar / whatsapp bit is fair, but beta code already has an extensions framework so siri can route to claude/gemini/chatgpt, not just third parties opting their data in. apple just didnt talk about it at wwdc tbh
@mensahfrancis4216
July 20, 2026 at 11:38 am
“Since Siri is able to extract the data from my phone…..” yeah, i hope no one else is pulling my data through Siri
@kg6sxy
July 20, 2026 at 11:57 am
I am looking forward to finding out what improvements have been added to voice control.
@StephenWalrondChance
July 20, 2026 at 11:59 am
3:40 The point that I Thumb Downed this video 😢
@Remix26
July 20, 2026 at 12:02 pm
That home screen layout is freakin wild.
@Pee-Nile
July 20, 2026 at 12:59 pm
Yeah wth haha
@kentberame9
July 20, 2026 at 12:18 pm
wow only three years late
@HiM-002-y7i
July 20, 2026 at 12:22 pm
The love of God next time mute yourself whenever you say, SIRI, it keeps triggering my iPhone
@alexanderfazel
July 20, 2026 at 12:49 pm
I’m really liking Siri AI and am very impressed. I’m so glad Apple used a Gemini top foundation model to train their own models and are not actually using Gemini as the brains! Apple doesn’t collect data from their users the way OpenAI, Meta, Microsoft, and Google do. So they needed to do this.
It will get better, too, being in early beta.
@starrekip
July 20, 2026 at 12:52 pm
If this is what you like, just buy a Pixel. This is a pale imitation with nice animation.
@davidbangsdemocracy5455
July 20, 2026 at 1:33 pm
Siri Ai is still totally idiotic. Yes, it can know surprising things at time. But in incorrectly answers almost all questions. For example “show pictures of me in Guatemala”. “i can’t find a contact named me” How do you say “preterite perfect” in French? Playing “Perfect by Ed Sheeran. “ What apps do I have regarding weather” I cannot find any weather apps. I recommend downloading Apple’s weather app.
I’ve got an iPhone 17 pro, and am definitely using the new Siri. It does very well if the thing I’m talking about can be answered by Gemini. Not much improvement in helping my use my phone.
@Iheart2U
July 20, 2026 at 1:50 pm
Gemini but I specially ChatGPT is just so far ahead of this but good effort Apple
@ButrusV
July 20, 2026 at 2:08 pm
“For 15 years I’ve had Siri disabled on my iPhone”…didn’t we all?
@Pixelpunch3
July 20, 2026 at 6:10 pm
Yay! No more privacy! Let’s all celebrate! lol and for what? Because you people are too lazy to look through your photos or email? 😂 losers will eat anything up
@SSS-mp8th
July 20, 2026 at 6:44 pm
I’d rather save the water and energy and just search myself.