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Apple Announces Siri AI, Next Generation of Apple Intelligence (macrumors.com) 40

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At WWDC 2026, Apple announced a new "Siri AI," describing it as a more conversational, personalized, and systemwide assistant that can understand on-screen context and interact with apps while relying on on-device processing or Private Cloud Compute. The relaunch comes two years after Apple's original Apple Intelligence promises stumbled and "never fully materialized," reports The Verge. MacRumors reports: Siri is now embedded directly in the Dynamic Island, accessible by swiping down from it, pressing the side button, or saying "Hey Siri." A revamped voice engine makes the assistant sound more expressive, with micro-adjustable voice settings available during initial setup.

During Apple's keynote demo, presenters showed Siri handling chained, multi-step requests with apparent ease. In one sequence, a presenter asked about a Suki Waterhouse concert, was told tickets require a lottery entry, and asked Siri to set a reminder when the lottery opens, which it did. In another, the assistant identified a photo's landmark, pulled up navigation to that location, and surfaced photos from a recent family trip, adding a specific image to a shared family album on request.

Another demo showcased Siri's ability to synthesize information across apps. A presenter asked about a dessert he had heard about at an event, and Siri located the relevant details from his Messages history. It then compiled the information into a watch-party menu, drafted a message to his contacts with the menu included, and presented send and edit options. In a further demo, a presenter asked about something his son had shared in a message and followed it up by asking Siri to compose an email on the subject.

A new dedicated Siri app lets users scroll back through prior conversations and kick off new ones, with conversation history synced via iCloud so sessions carry seamlessly between devices. The app is also coming to watchOS. On the Mac, Siri is now also integrated into Spotlight and available via right-click context menus on any file or window. On visionOS, Siri AI gains a 3D visualization that users can place anywhere in their space.
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  • Finding an old text message is fine, but can it tell me how many hats I have?

  • Can I get it to mix in the occasional random "Here's what I found on the web" response, just for old times sake?

  • I know it's really trivial, bordering on petty, but please oh please give her a different accent. She says "okay" so much, and the Valleygirl accent is never heard so pronounced as obviously as in that word that I really want any other accent. Mid Atlantic, Southern, Cascadian, Midwest, Irish, please anything other than Valleygirl.

    • I have mine set to Australian, works for me.

    • Re:Valleygirl accent (Score:4, Informative)

      by ceoyoyo ( 59147 ) on Monday June 08, 2026 @08:06PM (#66181418)

      You can change it you know. Irish is in fact an option. Two of them.

    • I know it's really trivial, bordering on petty, but please oh please give her a different accent. She says "okay" so much, and the Valleygirl accent is never heard so pronounced as obviously as in that word that I really want any other accent. Mid Atlantic, Southern, Cascadian, Midwest, Irish, please anything other than Valleygirl.

      Several minutes were spent on the new voices. So yes, you can.

      • Re: (Score:2)

        by mccalli ( 323026 )
        ...and then the reveal that you can't have it unless you have an M3 chip or later, plus 12Gb of RAM. So that's all the new Neo owners out then isn't it - that's a serious miss.

  • We've seen "demos" before (Score:4, Insightful)

    by misnohmer ( 1636461 ) on Monday June 08, 2026 @03:44PM (#66181092)
    Is this general availability, or just demos? There were demos last time Apple Intelligence was announced too.

    • This one will probably happen, since they signed a big fat deal with Google [blog.google] to get access to the Gemini AI models for on-device work.

      Apple knows they're behind, and this proves they are also occasionally smart enough to defeat the regular Not-Invented-Here syndrome they almost universally suffer from. This is one of those times - they can toss some cash Google's way, and instantly overtake Microsoft in the desktop / laptop space, and catch right up and surpass quite a bit of Android manufacturers (and be o

      • They had a "big fat deal" with OpenAI before too, yet it didn't result in any impressive improvements to Siri or other Apple Intelligence software - definitely nothing like their iPhone 16 AI demos.

        • Sure, but Google has already demonstrated their models running on handhelds quite usefully (see: Pixel 9 and above).

          OpenAI has never done that, and Apple was going to have to make it work. They couldn't, which is why they are getting pounded for showing things that can't actually work.

          These models work, and have been proven to work already.

  • I'm not excited. Amazon keeps desperately trying to push all of my Echo devices over to being Alexa+ (by responding to something I genuinely asked about followed by "BY THE WAY, did you know Alexa+ is free blah blah blah") which stinks because I tried it and it's TERRIBLE. Stop trying to get me to use it. Also, I use an Echo Auto in my car, and you are absolutely unable to disable it there, so I'm stuck using it and it can't even figure out how to play music properly often.

    I find myself yelling at the

  • They were talking about this on the business news (Score:4, Insightful)

    by oldgraybeard ( 2939809 ) on Monday June 08, 2026 @03:57PM (#66181112)
    The Apple analyst was charged up because it would drive the product replacement cycle(Apple has many older devices still in use, like my old se). And drive service revenue by having Siri choose sponsored products where it can and Apple gets a cut.
    So Apple AI is just like everyone else's AI. Long on Artificial, No Intelligence, just Automation, an ad/paid sponsors platform used as a sales and marketing tool to drive the Apple revenue streams.
    But with assurances, nothing will leave the Apple walled garden and only those paying for access to the Apple customers will be allowed in.

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by sinij ( 911942 )
      As long as I can completely disable it, I have no issues. Currently Siri is completely disabled on my SE. It wasn't difficult to do and it stayed off. Unlike, for example, Microslop that attempts to ram it down your throat.
  • Maybe it's just me, but I'm not feeling or seeing a great deal of excitement about the arrival of AI on our personal devices. I'm also at a loss about what the compelling use case is supposed to be. Of course there are coding assistants and AI-driven help desks, which are great, and the AI summary in Google search is becoming more useful, but outside of corporate (read: easily monetizable) applications, where is the killer app that warrants, the trillion dollar investments, and the terawatt data centers?

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by HiThere ( 15173 )

      Once I see it doing what I want, I'll be interested. But in order to do that, it needs to be able to understand the action of the fiction I'm asking it to read. E.g. if it's reading "Alice in Wonderland" it needs to use a proper voice for Alice talking to herself as she falls down the rabbit hole. (And for the editorial comments interspersed.)

      O,. and it needs to be able to do this without an internet connection.

    • Personally, I've seen quite a bit of nice things you can do. For example, having NotebookLM on my phone, and being able to feed it a few PDFs or emails or whatever and then asking questions. It can collate data and give me comprehensive reporting without me having to dig for all of it.

      I gave NotebookLM my itinerary for an international trip and asked it to create a jetlag mitigation strategy. It produced a whole schedule that was centered around the itinerary telling me when to sleep, when to take vitami

  • meh! (Score:3)

    by Going_Digital ( 1485615 ) on Monday June 08, 2026 @06:19PM (#66181288)
    As long as I can turn the junk off, I really don’t care. So tired of all this AI nonsense, once the startup hype ends and people have to pay the true cost for the tokens burned the AI fad will be about as popular as 3D TV and virtual reality.

  • ...and Siri located the relevant details from his Messages history.

    Do I really want Apple to have access to my messages? And if they have access to my messages even in the absence of Siri, then do I really want Apple at all?

    • Well to be fair, you did give Slashdot access to your messages...

      • Well to be fair, you did give Slashdot access to your messages...

        Well, since Slashdot was the intended recipient I think that's a good thing. I may be missing your point though, so apologies in advance if there was a "wooosh" that I missed.

        AFAICT the only messages Slashdot has access to are the ones I send to it. I don't think it's getting much beyond what it might manage to lift from my browser, and I never access Slashdot from my phone. Even if I did, I'd do so via Firefox.

    • Apple's iMessages are E2E encrypted. Only the sender and recipient have they keys to decrypt the messages on device; Apple does not. The new Siri search is run on device also.

      • Re: (Score:3)

        by _xeno_ ( 155264 )

        Only the sender and recipient have they keys to decrypt the messages on device; Apple does not.

        Which is great, when they're in transit. But once they're on-device, they're decrypted, and then Apple has access to them.

        We know this, because there have been court cases where iCloud-subpeonaed iMessage messages were presented as evidence.

        Just because the transit is secure, doesn't mean the endpoints are.

  • IS Siri AI that combines Google into it ?

  • Hopefully it becomes a thing I never, ever have to deal with.
    I happily have siri disabled on all my apple disabled to the extent that it can be.

  • I turned those off in mine!

  • So they paid android to use Gemini because they couldn't figure out AI themselves. Hilarious.

  • Hey Siri, play the movie we didn't finish last night.
    Okay, yesterday you watched "Teen dream deep..."
    No no no no, stop stop shhhh. Not that one.

    All this stuff is getting stored somewhere. When Microslop did this with Recall it turned out it was all in plain text on the disk. Whoopsies! Turns out storing things on disk without encryption is a bit of a security problem!

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