Apple launches Siri AI, a conversational assistant featuring onscreen awareness, Visual Intelligence, and personal context retrieval
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Apple is finally shipping the conversational overhaul it first teased in 2024, rebranding the assistant as Siri AI and giving it onscreen awareness plus the ability to pull personal context from messages, photos, and calendars without extra prompting. The update also adds Visual Intelligence for camera and screen understanding, with a dedicated app and more expressive voice options arriving alongside iOS 27 this fall.
The demo that pulled private messages on stage
One live example showed Siri locating a door code sent in Messages without the user remembering the exact thread, highlighting the new personal-context retrieval in action.
Not every supported device gets the full set
The highest-capability tier of the two-tiered models is limited to premium hardware such as iPhone 17 Pro models and M4+ iPads with at least 12 GB RAM, while earlier devices miss features like the most expressive voice.
Positive users praise Apple's rebuilt Siri AI and Apple Intelligence for impressive personalization and privacy, while negative users criticize missing language support like Arabic and doubt real-world reliability.
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The next generation of Apple Intelligence powers an entirely new Siri: making the apps and experiences you rely on across iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Vision Pro more personal and helpful than ever.
Apple WWDC just demo’d new Siri AI powered by Apple Intelligence (aka Gemini distillation).
It’s supposed to be more conversational with on-screen visual intelligence and can integrate user context (photos, contacts, calendars).
The WWDC 2024 version was pure vapourware but this looks more legit because Siri responses actually take a while to respond. After getting fined last time for false advertising, Apple can’t mess around with this Siri update.
Interesting: New Apple Intelligence Siri only available on iPhone 17 Pro.
Of course not be available in the EU (god damn)
Apple Intelligence sounds like a very good update. But did I miss all the relevant (nerd) stuff like paramters, evals in benchmarks and what not? Hopefully on their website
Even though I want to test Apple's Intelligence myself: it looks very promising and could finally provide real access to AI for the millions of Apple users.
Steve Jobs finding out that the new Siri AI features — 16 years after he acquired the company — are a calendar reminder, photo finder and contact list search
Apple WWDC just demo’d new Siri AI powered by Apple Intelligence (aka Gemini distillation).
It’s supposed to be more conversational with on-screen visual intelligence and can integrate user context (photos, contacts, calendars).
The WWDC 2024 version was pure vapourware but this looks more legit because Siri responses actually take a while to respond. After getting fined last time for false advertising, Apple can’t mess around with this Siri update.
Apple Intelligence sounds like a very good update. But did I miss all the relevant (nerd) stuff like paramters, evals in benchmarks and what not? Hopefully on their website
- System wide awareness - Visual Intelligence in Camera App
OK, the AI features are almost wholly aimed at consumers who don't know what an OpenClaw or Hermes is. Or have tried the new @TownAI, @wabi, or @interaction's Poke.
It touches very lightly on things that could take away people's privacy. Like looking at your screen. Others, like @FarzaTV's Clicky or @cluely dive deeply into that side of the pool that Apple is afraid of popping in.
Very few words about glasses, or Apple Vision Pro. This was all about a rebuilt Siri. Which is great for everyday users (most of my family and friends who aren't in AI world will be thrilled to get them).
Watching it I realized just how far ahead of the world X's AI community is. If you want to get ahead, follow everyone here: https://x.com/scobleizer/lists
And I'll have my AI write up a report from all that at https://alignednews.com/ai
- System wide awareness - Visual Intelligence in Camera App
Siri update
- image understanding - more conversational - reworked voice-tone / sound. Sounds real human
Siri AI with on-screen “visual intelligence” when someone opens an incognito Safari browser, lowers the screen brightness and mutes the volume on their iPhone 17 Pro Max
Apple WWDC just demo’d new Siri AI powered by Apple Intelligence (aka Gemini distillation).
It’s supposed to be more conversational with on-screen visual intelligence and can integrate user context (photos, contacts, calendars).
The WWDC 2024 version was pure vapourware but this looks more legit because Siri responses actually take a while to respond. After getting fined last time for false advertising, Apple can’t mess around with this Siri update.
Everything you need to know about what we announced at #WWDC26… plus a few cameos!
Siri AI, explained
Apple WWDC just demo’d new Siri AI powered by Apple Intelligence (aka Gemini distillation).
It’s supposed to be more conversational with on-screen visual intelligence and can integrate user context (photos, contacts, calendars).
The WWDC 2024 version was pure vapourware but this looks more legit because Siri responses actually take a while to respond. After getting fined last time for false advertising, Apple can’t mess around with this Siri update.
The market is not happy with Siri AI.
Apple off right after the WWDC demo.
Apple WWDC just demo’d new Siri AI powered by Apple Intelligence (aka Gemini distillation).
It’s supposed to be more conversational with on-screen visual intelligence and can integrate user context (photos, contacts, calendars).
The WWDC 2024 version was pure vapourware but this looks more legit because Siri responses actually take a while to respond. After getting fined last time for false advertising, Apple can’t mess around with this Siri update.
@tim_cook Not coming to the EU is a massive fail!
@tim_cook Apple used to stand for innovation, simplicity, and art.
Now it’s all corporate slop created by middle managers.
Siri AI? You actually added to the name to inject “AI” in it? Do you really think people are going to go to a Siri AI App™️ and say the term “Siri AI™️”?
@ijustine Hope it actually works
@tim_cook Why not on my iPhone 17, Tim?
Isn’t that what you told us when you sold these phones to us?
@gregjoz Are you trying to take my job
@tim_cook Siri Siri AI Apple Intelligence
Which name is it? I don’t even know what to call your products anymore. The fact that the names are confusing just shows that the entire company is confused.
@gregjoz It’s me????😬🤣
google and apple both still bafflingly behind in product here. what is going on?