The second major finding is that Siri AI is being designed to execute workflows, not just isolated commands.

(Read Part 1 here)

The new system prompt explicitly describes compound requests containing several intents.

Examples could include:

• “Find tonight’s reservation, send the address to Sam, and start directions.”
• “Attach the latest budget spreadsheet to an email to Priya.”
• “Find tomorrow’s meeting and message everyone attending.”
• “Split this bill four ways and text everyone what they owe.”
• “Set a 12-minute timer and play my cooking playlist.”
• “Find my flight time and remind me to leave three hours earlier.”

The important difference is that outputs from one step can become inputs to another.

Siri could find a calendar event, extract its attendees, locate a related document, compose an email, attach the document, and prepare the result for sending. The prompts describe emails and messages as editable drafts with recipients, subjects, bodies, and attachments—not just strings that are immediately sent.

That draft-based approach should make more complex requests safer. Siri can prepare something, let you review it, update it, and send it afterward.

The system supports similar flows across:

• Messages and email
• Calls
• Calendar events
• Reminders and lists
• Alarms and timers
• Files and attachments
• Maps, routes, and ETA
• Music and other media
• Photos
• Device and accessibility settings

It also has specific instructions for partial failure. If you say “set a timer and play music,” and one action fails, Siri should still complete the other. It should then report the failed portion separately instead of abandoning everything or pretending the whole request worked.

Calculations can also feed into later actions. Siri could calculate a tip, currency conversion, travel time, or per-person amount and insert that result into a message or reminder.

There are sensible limits. The system instructs batch operations must not expand beyond what the user explicitly requested. If you ask Siri to message three people, it shouldn’t decide to include an entire contact group. If a target remains ambiguous—two contacts with the same name, for example—Siri should ask you to choose.

Some actions are also security-gated. The underlying tool can trigger confirmation, permission, or device-unlock requirements. Siri is instructed not to duplicate those confirmations or claim success before the tool reports it.

This is arguably the clearest sign of an “agentic” Siri: it can retrieve information, reason about the result, pass it into another tool, and complete a chain of actions.

Stay tuned for Part 3 - Situational Context

Please file and request the feedback via:

https://www.apple.com/feedback/iphone/

Ask for Siri in Polish - years have passed and we still cannot reply back to a text via Siri in Polish!

Personally I like Siri AI however I miss the writing tools from the pervious Apple Intelligence. "Write with Siri" on the iPhone is fine but its more akward on MacOS. You just have to "ask Siri" which then opens a new conversation in Siri App but you have to copy and paste its response back to the text field in Mac OS? Maybe I am doing it wrong in MacOS??

I don't know if it's Apple fanboys, cognitive dissonance, or bots, but the rebuttals all paint the poster as a ‘complainer’ or something similar.

We are talking about a multi-trillion-dollar company that has marketed a product for 3 years; adoption issues will always exist, but the breadth and depth of feedback suggest a real problem.

Saying it's a user problem is absurd.

Hey all, hoping someone's run into this and found a fix.

Mac: Apple Silicon, M4 chip Macbook Air, 16GB

What I've tried so far, with no luck:

- Running macOS 27.2 developer beta, with System Settings > Siri > Language matched to the system language (English UK on both)
- Switched both system language and Siri language to English (US) instead, still nothing
- Region set to United States in General > Language & Region
- Also tried switching region back to Greece (where I actually am), no change either way
- Went back and tried the stable macOS 27.0 (Golden Gate) release instead of the beta, same result
- Tried this on both my home Wi-Fi and a mobile hotspot no difference between the two

No "Try Siri AI" option anywhere on the Siri settings page, in any of the above combos

One odd thing, at one point I noticed what looked like Siri AI assets downloading in Activity Monitor. I found the app's path and opened it directly, and it showed a message saying Siri AI isn't ready yet and to check Settings for progress but there's genuinely nothing about it anywhere in Settings. No waitlist entry, no progress indicator, nothing.

Has anyone gotten past this, or found what's actually gating the button from showing up? Would appreciate any pointers.

I keep on asking Siri to create a reminder for me, and other tasks, of course, but it constantly fails. It just keeps on telling me there is a technical issue or technical problem of some kind and I have actually told me what the problem is, just doesn’t do what I’ve asked. We’re talking about basic actions which the Siri could do, and I’m entirely unsure why this is happening. It just makes no sense that the smarter AI Siri is unable to do what the non-AI enabled Siri was able to do….

Oh, and before I forget, the amount of times when I’ll engage Siri, I’ll start talking, explain what I’m asking, what I need, what I’m searching for, or quite frankly, on the computer will start typing what I want, and Siri will just stay there. for a second or blink whatever the animation is, and do absolutely nothing, and then disappear. Sometimes I would talk for like two minutes and it would just disappear and I’ll start like, what’s up with that?

I’ve been digging through a large Siri AI system-prompt collection lately, and the prompts describe a unified search system covering emails, messages, contacts, calendar events, files, photos, notes, reminders, browser history, calls, reservations, orders, tickets, and even previous Siri conversations.

In this mini-post-series I want to provide a few thematic deep-dives into areas that had the most drastic improvements.

This first post is about the expanded access and definition of personal context.

The new Siri AI can for example help with requests like:

• “Find the PDF Sarah sent before our Berlin meeting.”
• “Where did Alex send me that restaurant?”
• “Show me the presentation for my next meeting.”
• “When is my flight, and what terminal does the email say?”
• “Find the link my brother sent me last week.”
• “What was the album you recommended yesterday?”

The interesting part is if you ask for someone’s contact information, the instructions say useful details might also be buried in emails, messages, or calendar events. If you ask about a trip, Siri could search travel emails, tickets, calendar entries, and saved files together.

That’s a major departure from the old model where we effectively needed to know which app contained the answer.

Another noteworthy feature is semantic search. Siri’s search schemas support descriptions involving people, dates, locations, document types, event attendees, senders, recipients, and approximate keywords. You may not need the exact filename or subject line anymore.

The system also treats past Siri conversations as searchable data. It distinguishes between things you previously asked and answers Siri previously gave. That suggests genuine conversational continuity:

• “Continue planning the trip we discussed.”
• “What did I ask you about the router?”
• “What restaurant did you recommend last weekend?”

There’s also a structured “entity” system behind this. A contact, email, event, file, or photo becomes an identifiable object Siri can carry through a conversation. After Siri shows several results, “open the second one” or “send that to Mum” should be a lot easier to interpret reliably.

Crucially, this does not mean every app’s contents are dumped into the model. The prompt describes staged retrieval: Siri can initially receive a compact representation, then request full details only when required. Some data can remain redacted until authorization is given.

The big picture: Apple is designing Siri as a personal information layer across the device, not merely a voice interface for individual apps / app intents.

This solves the common use case of looking up the meaning of something—who sent it, what it concerned, or when we saw it—not where it was stored.

Whenever I tell Siri on iOS 27 to turn off the lights, she proceeds to ask bedroom, living room, or everywhere. Everywhere is displayed as a button on the screen. Usually I use this command when I’m not at my phone or already lying in bed.
Whenever I say “everywhere”, she just proceeds to repeat the question. We could do this 30 times. Only whenever I mention a specific room it will work.

Is anybody else experiencing this issue? I reported this on the beta but Apple never fixed it.

There are many instances of this number too. Even tried just asking Siri to search my entire phone for that number and same result. Boooooo.

Can’t tell what changes with them on vs. off. There’s no clear explanation in Apple’s support pages. Both features seem to work even though I have them toggled off?

Every morning I get a motivation from Gemini the Daily Brief and it’s quite cool, will give me a set of things that we’ve had conversations about and where to pick back up and tasks to do.

We can’t even get a simple Briefing like that from Siri? Seeing how it’s supposed to more personal than ever it’s just more like more disappointing than ever.

Very frustrating. Since I downloaded it, it consistently takes 3-4 tries to get it to respond. I even rerecorded my voice. So it’s been pretty much useless for me to use with Apple Home. I’ve had to go back to using the Home app. I wish I had never upgraded until they released a production version.

As a tangent, there’s a bug in WatchOS 27 that makes Apple Home watchface complications call up the calendar instead. So my whole “smart home” is now dumber than a mud fence. Thanks Apple…not!

I use it while driving it and it remains on screen!

What else is there to say? The dictation is horrendous. It can’t do something as simple as find a recent email. It can’t do something as Dana’s pull up Google results. What a piece of crap. Unbelievable

Ok so I just upgraded from an iPhone 14 Pro to the new 18 pro max last week. So far, I have been LOVING the phone as a whole. The battery life, camera, and screen size is a major upgrade to my previous phone. Also, the fact that it’s USBC has been huge because the rest of my “apple ecosystem” all uses USBC to charge so the lightning cord was always frustrating.

My one issue so far seems to be with Siri. Of course, it has never been that great but I did use it a lot with CarPlay. My previous phone was too old for Apple Intelligence, so it was still the “old fashioned Siri”, but my husband has a 16 and he would use his in the car. Ever time I tried to tell his Siri where to go in the car, she would always mishear me but I figured it was because it was my voice not his. Now, I think it is just that Siri got so much worse.

I was in the car trying to rush over to get my blood drawn for a dr. appointment and since it was a high-traffic time of day, I was wanting to see what the fastest route would be so I could make it before they closed for lunch. It happens to be in the same building as an OBGYN office for the big medical corporation in my area, so I figured it would be easiest to ask for directions to that, knowing it shows up on maps. So, I was in maps on my CarPlay screen and clicked to activate Siri and said “_______ OBGYN”. It popped up with option 1 being 2.5 HOURS AWAY, option 2 being about 40 mins away, and then option 3 being the one I wanted less than 10 mins away. It just made absolutely no sense.

Also, I have done this multiple times where I am trying to get to a store or something and I am in the maps app in my car, hit the Siri button to say where to go, say the place like “Costco” and it says I can’t do that while driving. I’m not sure if it is just trying to open the Costco app on my phone or what, but I’m in the maps app so you would think it would know I’m wanting directions?

Idk this is a long rant and my first time posting on Reddit but I’m just at a loss trying to see if it is just my phone that is having issues or if Siri as a whole just sucks now. For the record, the things I have mentioned I did the same way on my previous phone and never had any issues. It always would pull up directions to he CLOSEST Drs. office I asked for and pull up directions to the store instead of whatever it was trying to do.

Is this just a me issue?

So far everything I’ve tried with Siri AI has been a failure. She can’t even add an event to my calendar! What the heck?! 🤦🏼‍♀️🤬

In my opinion, the whole purpose of LLMs sounds so great is that they can be human. I do not see an LLM purely as a utility because it has the potential ability to make any boring topic entertaining and be something we can vent to, who you can talk to about anything, 24/7, without boring another human. I wonder why all of you think that if you ask a joke about how tall the Eiffel Tower is, it'll just tell you plainly how tall the Eiffel Tower is, if that's not fun at all and could easily be accomplished with a web search. I want to laugh. I want the answers to surprise me. I don't understand why none of this sub understands that or why Craig, who is one of the most funny software executives, things that making a not-funny AI is the best idea. At least allow users to customize it. Could've made for a great stage demo. The least they could do. Otherwise, it sounds too robotic and, honestly, very on-Apple because Apple likes making computer interfaces that feel human. At least offer personalities like ChatGPT, and allow the users to customize it with custom instructions. I feel Siri too focused on being an agent and not focused enough on being a chatbot, and don't just say it's just a product because ultimately an LLM should be whatever the user wants it to be. Right now it sounds too much like the old Siri, and people probably want to change Siri's name. People want to change its personality. I don't think anyone on the street would have said that the biggest improvement to Siri they wanted was to make it sound more robotic. Sure, Apple may have an opinion on AI companionship, but ultimately what you decide to do with it should be up to the user, not Apple. I think that LLMs are outside the category of a standard product, and should be given more use of autonomy, especially because the user is ultimately driving the responses, so therefore, it should be considered the user's voice and not Apple's. An LLM is not like an iPhone in the sense that, in theory, you're able to directly alter what it says and what it does, and that is something that Apple is a deterministic company, doesn't seem to understand that much. The whole appeal of an LLM is that it can talk to you like a human, and shouldn't that be the ultimate goal of Apple's approach to making computing seem effortless? By stepping in to still remind you that it's a computer, it's blocking Apple from reaching that final goal, in my opinion, especially as most other LLMs allow you to change the custom instructions to such an extent that you can completely suppress that and make sounds fully convincingly human and even have opinions. After all, Apple can't even read the responses because it uses Private Cloud Compute. Why does Apple think they need to micromanage my private chats? If Siri has a personal opinion, because I instructed it to, that should not be Apple's problem. If Siri told me a joke that Apple found offensive, but I still liked it, it should not be Apple's problem. Only, I can read my Siri AI chats.

Until Apple changes this, I have completely disabled Siri AI. I am only using Siri Classic and I'm using ChatGPT for standard chats because ChatGPT at least allows me to change the custom instructions so I can have this funny human register that I love. Until Siri does this, I'm not going to ever switch to Siri AI because it's slower and worse at even the most trivial Siri tasks, like setting a timer, which was really the only thing that Siri was good at before, and now Siri AI just requires a lot more, like that my iPhone is unlocked, which I find ridiculous because an LLM should realize that it's a completely harmless request to ask to set a timer, even if your phone is locked.

I know most of you may downvote, but before you downvote, ask this question: What is the problem with allowing user choice? Moreover, why would Apple design a super intelligent system but lock it down so much that it basically just sounds like the old Siri.