Apple Tests Siri AI on iOS 27 Beta as San Francisco Guide Ahead of 2026 Rollout

1 articles · Updated · WIRED · Jun 20

Apple’s revamped Siri in the iOS 27 developer beta handled a day of San Francisco trip planning with restaurant picks, hiking suggestions, camera queries and texting tasks, showing a far more conversational assistant ahead of its public release later in 2026.
Google-backed Apple Foundation Models and on-device indexing drive the upgrade, letting Siri pull from messages, photos and email; Apple said the indexing took a little over 1 week and that Private Cloud Compute does not store user data.
Beta flaws still showed up: Siri misidentified a foggy tree photo with a Point Reyes reference an hour away, mixed hot pot photos with hot tub shots, and needed repeated tries to text a selfie correctly.
Hardware support remains limited—every iPhone 16 and 17 model plus the iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Max can run the new Siri, while only iPhone Air, iPhone 17 Pro and iPhone 17 Max get the full feature set.
The test suggests Apple is finally moving Siri beyond link-based answers toward built-in phone automation, though whether users change daily habits when it ships remains an open question.