After a rocky first attempt at AI-powered Siri, Apple’s latest upgrade in iOS 27 delivers on basic but useful tasks: pulling context from emails and calendars, adding events from screenshots or flyers, diagnosing garden problems, and handling follow-up requests reliably.
Hands-on testing shows it’s still fairly basic compared to Google’s Gemini, but for longtime Siri skeptics, the simple fact that “it actually works” marks a meaningful step forward in rebuilding trust.
Allison Johnson for The Verge:
After stumbling through its first launch of an AI-imbued Siri, Apple is trying again. The newly upgraded Siri AI can chat with you about what might be killing the roses in your yard, put together a shopping list for the hardware store, and set a reminder to lay down some compost in that flower bed. It can reference information in your email and calendar to make its recommendations or provide an actually helpful answer to the question: “When should I leave for the airport?” And yes, it can even add a list of events from an email to your calendar. I tried all of these scenarios out for myself and I saw it happen. AI Siri is for real this time.
Siri AI working well depends a lot on the AI understanding context. So far, it’s doing pretty well. I asked it when I needed to return some camera gear I rented for WWDC, and it found the information from a calendar event I’d made and in an email (it’s due back Friday, for the record). Likewise, prompting it with something like “add these events to my calendar” will consistently trigger it to reference the information on my screen. So far, so good.
I couldn’t get Siri to engage in any shenanigans — I didn’t exactly stress test it, but the guardrails were strong enough to return a curt “I can’t help you with that” to a shady prompt. Fair.
The new Siri handled my follow-up requests well, too. I asked it to recommend a garden center “near home” and it came up with a good suggestion. It also created a new reminder list with some checklist items for my garden rehab project and added a calendar event, all from a single prompt. Pretty basic stuff, but this is Siri. The fact that it works at all is a step forward that’s been years in the making.
MacDailyNews Take: Siri AI so far is a foundation – a strong base upon which to build – and it does just work!
“Here’s the thing: When you ask Siri AI a wide variety of questions and pose commands that the current Siri simply cannot handle, Siri AI just works. In beta. It’s already lightyears better than plain Jane Siri and it’ll only get better!” – MacDailyNews, June 10, 2026
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