Apple Rebuilds Siri From Scratch and Calls It Siri AI

Apple finally rebuilt Siri. Not a patch, not a feature update.

A ground-up rebuild.

The company introduced Siri AI, a completely new version of the assistant powered by Apple Intelligence.

The new Siri can hold full back-and-forth conversations. It knows your personal context, pulling from photos, messages, emails, and notes without you having to explain where things are. It can see what is on your screen and take action based on it. It can look things up on the web and bring you current information. It can complete multi-step tasks across apps from a single request.

The demo on stage showed Siri planning a World Cup watch party. It pulled up the match schedule, suggested dishes from both countries, found a dessert a family member mentioned in Messages, built a themed menu, then drafted and sent a group message. All in one session, no app switching.

On iPhone, swipe down from the Dynamic Island or use Hey Siri or the side button. On Mac, type into Spotlight and it recognizes when you want Siri. A full conversation panel opens and you can resize and drag it anywhere.

A dedicated Siri app is now available across all Apple platforms. It stores conversation history and syncs it privately via iCloud. Start on iPhone, continue on iPad, wrap up on Mac.

Siri AI is available in English first, with more languages coming. It is not available in the EU on iOS and iPadOS at launch. It is not available in China while Apple works through regulatory requirements. Beta rollout for customers starts later this year.

Siri AI features:
Completely rebuilt on Apple Intelligence
Persistent conversation history via dedicated Siri app
Conversation history synced privately via iCloud across devices
Personal context: searches photos, messages, emails, notes
World knowledge: web lookups via Private Cloud Compute
App actions: drafts emails, sets reminders, adds events, shares photos
On-screen awareness: acts on what you see in any app
Multi-step task completion across apps in one session
iOS: swipe down from Dynamic Island to open conversational Siri
macOS: Siri integrated into Spotlight, opens inline conversation panel
macOS: Control-click context menu for Siri on any file, image, or text
New voice engine: more expressive, customizable expressivity and pace
System-wide dictation with major accuracy upgrade
Supports spelling, punctuation, and capitalization
Available on iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, visionOS, CarPlay, AirPods

Not available in EU on iOS and iPadOS at launch

Not available in China

Customer beta: later in 2026
Developer preview: available now