When iOS 27 arrives, it will bring with it a fully revamped assistant for your iPhone. Siri made its debut on the iPhone in 2011, five years ahead of Google Assistant and 11 years before ChatGPT would open up to the public. Despite the head start, Apple's voice AI has been comprehensively overtaken in recent years, and made to look rather primitive compared to the many generative AI rivals it's now up against. With the launch of iOS 27, Apple and Siri are fighting back. There's a new name-- Siri AI --and a host of new capabilities that are coming to your iPhone.

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Siri AI, Apple's long-anticipated redesign of its digital assistant, will be available in five additional languages come October, the company announced today during its fall iPhone event. Siri AI is already available in English through the iOS 27 and iPadOS 27 betas, and will roll out more broadly to English-speaking users once Apple makes those updates available to the public on Monday, September 14. During today's iPhone event, the company said it plans to bring Siri AI to French, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese and Spanish speaking users sometime next month. Apple also confirmed that Siri AI would feature daily usage for prompts that require the assistant to make use of the company's cloud compute AI models. We're waiting on the company to share more details, but it said that its iCloud plans would offer expanded usage limits.

The next version of iOS will arrive on Monday, September 14, Apple announced today at its fall iPhone event. That same day, the company will also release iPadOS 27 and watchOS 27 to the public. The operating systems mark the public debut of Siri AI, the company's long-awaited (and oft delayed) overhaul of its digital assistant. Apple partnered with Google to use the company's Gemini models in the training of the algorithms that power Siri AI. In Engadget's early testing of Siri AI, we found the assistant was actually capable of answering complex questions and carrying out multi-step prompts.

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I was initially enamored with the beta version of Apple's revamped smartphone assistant. As the full release approaches, I've forgotten Siri AI even exists. When I first tested the developer beta of Apple's Siri AI by taking it as my tour guide around San Francisco, I was convinced the overhauled smartphone assistant would be an " everything tool " on the iPhone. The answers felt reliable enough and more helpful than previous versions of Siri. Also, the chatbot-style app for Siri felt very sleek, very Apple-y. Over the next month, I kept experimenting with the Siri AI in the iOS 27 beta .

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