Apple has started the beta rollout of its rebuilt Siri AI assistant, which the company says runs on next-generation Apple Intelligence. The first release is English-only and begins today, with French, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese and Spanish promised for next month. The assistant is the centerpiece of Apple's 2027 software cycle, when the company says its releases will carry Siri AI and Apple Intelligence features.
The rebuilt assistant is meant to understand personal context, draw on world knowledge and be aware of what is on the screen, according to Apple. It can take actions across apps, draft emails and edit photos, and it already works with WhatsApp and Audible, with Outlook, Notability and Tripsy support coming soon. Users can summon it by saying Hey Siri, pressing the side button or swiping the Dynamic Island. On iPad and Mac, Siri AI is built into Spotlight, and Control-click context menus let users ask about an image, a file or a block of text.
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A dedicated Siri app keeps conversation history in sync through iCloud, so chats carry across iPhone, Mac, iPad, Apple Watch and Apple Vision Pro. On Vision Pro, the assistant can place a 3D visualization wherever the wearer likes in the room, and it can be invoked by looking at something and speaking. On products that support it, dictation now runs on the on-device AFM Core Advanced model, handles capitalization, punctuation and formatting on its own, and lets users adjust how expressive and how fast Siri sounds.
Visual Intelligence is expanding beyond the iPhone to iPad, Mac and Apple Vision Pro. The iPhone Camera app gains a new Siri mode, the iPad ties Visual Intelligence into screenshots, and the Mac gets a dedicated keyboard shortcut for it. Writing Tools can produce drafts and polish text wherever a user types, while Mail and Messages mirror the punctuation and tone a user normally uses with a given recipient. Apple Intelligence also proofreads across the system and in most third-party apps.
Photos picks up Spatial Reframing, an Extend tool and an improved Clean Up. Image Playground now generates photorealistic images using a generative model that runs on Private Cloud Compute, and image generation is available inside the Siri AI app. Apple says support for the SynthID standard is coming for AI-generated images. Safari sorts open tabs into topics on its own, can alert users to restocks and price drops, and can build custom extensions from a written description. Smart Reply draws on a person's writing style, and Suggestions in Mail can act through third-party apps. Apple also listed a Phone feature called Call Context.
The beta arrives roughly two months after Apple released the iOS 27 public beta on July 13, 2026, which introduced the rebuilt assistant. At that stage, testers had to join a waitlist through the Siri tab in Settings, the assistant was English-only and unavailable in the European Union, and Apple Intelligence required an iPhone 15 Pro or newer, with some on-device features limited to the iPhone 17 Pro, iPhone 17 Pro Max or iPhone Air. In June, Apple said it had no timeline for Siri AI on iOS and iPadOS in the EU, and macOS 27 Golden Gate runs only on Apple Silicon.
The launch follows a rocky run-up. Apple announced macOS 27 Golden Gate in June with a Siri AI overhaul powered by Google Gemini models, and in April, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reported that four smart home devices, including the Apple TV 4K, were sitting unreleased while Apple finished Siri work. In July, Jay Peters of The Verge said the rebuilt assistant "actually works, which is big praise, though it keeps things brief."
