I’m loving the new SIRI AI as well. Now, in a video with math problems on it, I can have Siri tell me and even solve for me the math equations that appear in a video where the instructor won’t read the problems out loud. Siri did perfectly!
> On Sep 16, 2026, at 5:11 PM, [email protected] wrote: > > I’ve got to hand it to Apple. > The new Siri app works much more like a chatbot, saving Siri interactions as > conversation threads. You can reopen a thread, keep asking follow-up > questions, and, in some cases, view the sources Siri used. > I tested Siri in more situations than I can cover here, but two improvements > stood out immediately: it is much faster and more responsive, and it handles > context far better. That seems to reflect the models running locally on the > iPhone, and despite my skepticism, Apple deserves credit. The real > breakthrough in iOS 27 is Siri’s combination of on-screen awareness and > personal context. Since 2024, I had mostly dismissed Apple Intelligence as > marketing hype meant to sell more iPhones. This new Siri changed my mind. > Many familiar tasks now work better and faster. I used Siri to send WhatsApp > and Telegram messages; create, name, and revise notes; describe someone’s > WhatsApp status; assess whether an image appeared to be AI-generated; and > explain an app’s controls, layout, features, and uses. On Instagram, where a > minor issue had hidden my follower count, Siri read it directly from my > profile without any trouble. > I also asked Siri to find specific photos. With a precise request, it can > pull up the exact image or a set of likely matches, which makes location > details and keywords especially useful. The results appear in a separate > image picker. There is also a new “Ask” button on each photo in the library; > it was not there before the new Siri was installed. > On-screen awareness opens up a lot of possibilities within almost any app or > webpage. In Safari, for example, I asked Siri to summarize a page into key > points, give me language-learning examples based on it, and then create a > flowchart illustrating the theory. Siri announced the generation progress, > displayed the image right away, and saved it to the Playground app. > Siri can also search email across multiple accounts. I asked it to find my > oldest invoice, and it located and read one from 2020, when I was still in > college and pandemic restrictions forced us to handle payments by email. It > can also find other messages based on a topic or detail you remember, answer > follow-up questions, and summarize a long email already on screen. Its > understanding of the Files app impressed me too: after explaining the > contents of a folder, it immediately recommended which files could help me > better understand culture and society. > One final moment was funny, ironic, and maybe a little dystopian. While I was > testing Siri, it made a sound that suggested it was still thinking. I asked, > “Siri, what are you doing?” It replied: > “If string theory is correct, I could be dancing the Macarena for you in a > parallel dimension. That could also happen in this dimension, by the way. You > just have to ask.” > Maybe it was a hallucination, or maybe Siri was trying a little too hard to > be funny. Still, the exchange showed strong contextual awareness: it knows > English is not my native language, my settings allow it to read Spanish text, > and it has probably indexed at least some of my previous interactions. > I tested all of this on an iPhone 16 Plus. The added expressiveness and > content awareness expected on the iPhone 17 Pro and later models should > appeal to a lot of users. > Goodbye, typewriter-style assistant. > > > Cheers, > Leo Bado > > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if > you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or > moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor. 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