For years, Siri has been a shortcut for setting timers or figuring out if iPhone users needed to pack a rain jacket for the day.
Now, Apple says it’ll act more like a personal assistant.
“We know there are times when you expect more from Siri,” Mike Rockwell, Apple’s VP of Siri engineering, said during the company’s Worldwide Developers Conference in June. “Siri is now a profoundly more capable assistant that helps you find what you need and gets more done.”
The new Siri AI can answer probing questions, hold longer conversations, and use details across several Apple and third-party apps to find what users need, the company says. It can, for example, find a hotel confirmation in an older email, find a recipe a friend texted a while ago, or enter a café WiFi password after taking a picture.
There’s also a new stand-alone Siri AI app where users can revisit conversations on other Apple devices, too.
It’s the biggest test yet of Apple’s AI ambitions. Siri AI is initially available in English and is partially available in Europe.
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