Apple shipped its 27.2 software updates on 26 October, adding abilities to Siri AI, the assistant it rebuilt for iOS 27 last month. The headline change is that Siri AI can now recall earlier conversations the user has had with it.
It also draws on more personal material: photos attached in Messages, attendees of Calendar events, voicemails, and richer Safari history and Reading List results. An Excluded Apps setting keeps Siri away from chosen apps, and parts of a reply can be selected and copied.
An iPhone showing the Siri AI interface in iOS 27
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Siri AI, English-only until now, adds French, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese and Spanish. Apple says Traditional Chinese, Norwegian, Turkish and Vietnamese follow by the end of the year, probably with iOS 27.3. Traditional Chinese support does not bring Siri AI to China.
About Siri AI
Siri AI is Apple's chatbot-style assistant, the successor to the Siri voice assistant that Apple released on 14 October 2011. It is built into iOS 27, iPadOS 27 and macOS 27.
It was reported before it was announced: in January 2026 Bloomberg said Apple would turn Siri into a chatbot, codenamed Campos, to compete with Claude, Gemini and ChatGPT. The same month Apple and Google said the next generation of Apple Foundation Models would be based on Google's Gemini models and cloud technology, with the chatbot using a custom model from the Gemini team. It reached the public in September 2026 as part of iOS 27, rolling out gradually by waitlist and labelled a beta.
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The update also adds support for Google's SynthID watermark on generative images in Photos and Image Playground. Siri AI needs an iPhone 16 or later, or an iPhone 15 Pro.
Siri AI artwork from the iOS 27 launch, dark variant
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