Siri AI Is Becoming Apple’s Everything Tool
Siri AI Is Becoming Apple’s Everything Tool
Siri AI 正在成为苹果的“万能工具”
The latest version of Apple’s smartphone software, iOS 27, is available for iPhone owners as a public beta. It’s the first time Apple’s long-promised revamped version of Siri is available to the general public. 苹果智能手机软件的最新版本 iOS 27 现已作为公测版向 iPhone 用户开放。这是苹果期待已久的 Siri 改版首次面向公众发布。
Showcased at the company’s WWDC event in June as “Siri AI,” Apple expanded on the original voice controls of the smartphone assistant, adding a chatbot-style app and further weaving it into the iPhone user experience. 在今年 6 月的 WWDC 大会上，苹果以“Siri AI”的名义展示了这一功能。苹果在原有语音控制的基础上进行了扩展，增加了一个聊天机器人风格的应用程序，并将其进一步融入到 iPhone 的用户体验中。
In my initial hands-on with a developer beta version of Siri AI, I was generally impressed by Apple’s overhaul. It made the assistant feel actually helpful for navigating my phone and useful for tasks beyond voice-based interactions. Siri AI was able to help find old vacation photos, send quick texts, and pick a decent pancake spot—all from basic prompts—during my limited tests. It wasn’t flawless, but the new Siri does feel worth giving a whirl, especially for iPhone owners who rarely, if ever, used the previous version. You might uncover a few hidden gems that become part of your daily usage. 在我对 Siri AI 开发者测试版的初步体验中，苹果的这次大改版给我留下了深刻印象。它让语音助手变得真正实用，不仅能辅助手机导航，还能处理语音交互之外的任务。在我的有限测试中，Siri AI 能够根据简单的指令帮我找到旧的度假照片、发送快捷短信，并挑选出不错的煎饼店。虽然它并不完美，但新版 Siri 确实值得一试，尤其是对于那些很少甚至从未使用过旧版 Siri 的 iPhone 用户来说。你可能会发现一些隐藏的“宝藏功能”，并将其融入到日常使用中。
Siri now feels like part of the smartphone’s infrastructure. “They’ve integrated it across the entire ecosystem, so you can access Siri AI no matter where you are on the device,” says Nabila Popal, a senior research director who focuses on consumer devices at International Data Corporation. “You can talk to it. You can also access it via an app. So, the accessibility of Siri AI and its integration across the operating system were really well done.” You can still turn Siri off if you remain uninterested, but what Apple is offering may convince some users to rethink how they fundamentally interact with their iPhones. Siri 现在感觉像是智能手机基础设施的一部分。国际数据公司（IDC）专注于消费设备的资深研究总监 Nabila Popal 表示：“他们将其整合到了整个生态系统中，因此无论你在设备的哪个位置，都可以访问 Siri AI。你可以与它对话，也可以通过应用程序访问它。所以，Siri AI 的易用性及其在操作系统中的整合做得非常出色。”如果你不感兴趣，仍然可以关闭 Siri，但苹果提供的这些功能可能会让一些用户重新思考他们与 iPhone 进行交互的根本方式。
Below is a guide to some of the major changes to Siri AI, aimed at early adopters interested in downloading the iOS 27 public beta. You can sign up for the Apple Beta Software Program here. It’s always worth backing up your device before you choose to download beta software, just in case anything goes haywire. I’ll note that nothing went wrong with my iPhone 16 Pro Max when I tried the earlier developer betas. 以下是 Siri AI 一些主要变化的指南，旨在帮助有兴趣下载 iOS 27 公测版的早期采用者。你可以在此处注册 Apple Beta 版软件计划。在下载测试版软件之前，务必备份你的设备，以防出现任何意外。我需要说明的是，我在尝试早期的开发者测试版时，我的 iPhone 16 Pro Max 没有出现任何问题。
After you download the public beta, you also need to go into your settings to sign up for Apple’s Siri wait list; you’ll receive a notification when you are off the wait list and ready to take Siri for a spin. 下载公测版后，你还需要进入设置注册苹果的 Siri 等候名单；当你通过审核并可以使用 Siri 时，你会收到通知。
New App
新的应用程序
One of Siri AI’s most immediately noticeable changes is the new chatbot-style app. The app is more of an interaction log than anything else. It’s where you can keep track of past Siri chats or reignite previous threads. Sure, you can also start new chats here, but I didn’t find myself doing that very often, since Siri is built into the iPhone’s search functionality now. Siri AI 最直观的变化之一是新的聊天机器人风格应用程序。与其说它是一个应用，不如说它更像是一个交互日志。你可以在这里追踪过去的 Siri 对话或重新开启之前的对话线程。当然，你也可以在这里开始新的对话，但我并不经常这样做，因为 Siri 现在已经内置到了 iPhone 的搜索功能中。
Don’t want your Siri chats stored forever? Go into your phone’s Settings, then find Siri AI and open up the Keep Conversations tab. Here’s where you can pick between “forever,” a year, or 30 days. If you change this setting to a shorter timeframe, then chats older than that will be wiped from the app. 不想让你的 Siri 对话被永久保存？进入手机的“设置”，找到“Siri AI”，然后打开“保留对话”选项卡。在这里，你可以选择“永久”、“一年”或“30 天”。如果你将此设置更改为较短的时间段，那么超过该时间的对话将从应用程序中删除。
While the new Siri app will look somewhat familiar to anyone who has tried a chatbot like ChatGPT or Claude, the beta app doesn’t have all the same functionality you might expect. For example, the current Siri app doesn’t have a memory feature to store details about the user’s preferences, which is standard among these chatbots. That means you’ll have to keep reminding Siri AI that you’re vegan when you ask for help finding recipes. It’s worth keeping in mind that this is a fresh release from Apple, and the company is expected to iterate and add new capabilities down the line. 虽然对于尝试过 ChatGPT 或 Claude 等聊天机器人的用户来说，新的 Siri 应用看起来有些眼熟，但该测试版应用并不具备你可能期望的所有功能。例如，当前的 Siri 应用没有存储用户偏好细节的记忆功能，而这在这些聊天机器人中是标配。这意味着当你寻求食谱建议时，你必须不断提醒 Siri AI 你是素食主义者。值得注意的是，这是苹果的全新发布，预计该公司未来会进行迭代并增加新功能。
Personal Context
个人语境
Even after you download the iOS 27 beta and get access to the new Siri, there’s still a chance you might have to wait a bit longer for another process to complete: indexing. “Siri AI has access to the kind of context that things like ChatGPT and Claude can’t easily have, because Siri is cooked into the operating system,” says Josh Clark, principal at digital-design agency Big Medium and coauthor of Sentient Design: Crafting Intelligent Interfaces with AI. 即使你下载了 iOS 27 测试版并获得了新版 Siri 的访问权限，你可能还需要等待另一个过程完成：索引。数字设计机构 Big Medium 的负责人、《感知设计：用人工智能打造智能界面》的合著者 Josh Clark 表示：“Siri AI 可以访问 ChatGPT 和 Claude 等工具难以轻易获取的语境信息，因为 Siri 是植入在操作系统内部的。”
Your iPhone essentially builds a searchable, on-device database during the indexing process. It’s labeled as “Optimizing Search and Siri” in more recent iOS 27 developer betas, with a progress bar now included. It took my device a little over a week to fully index, though your experience with the public beta may differ depending on your device, storage, and the new software version. 在索引过程中，你的 iPhone 本质上是在构建一个可搜索的设备端数据库。在较新的 iOS 27 开发者测试版中，它被标记为“正在优化搜索和 Siri”，并包含了一个进度条。我的设备花了大约一周多的时间才完成索引，不过你在公测版中的体验可能会因设备、存储空间和新软件版本的不同而有所差异。
This means Siri can easily pull in data from across the device to better answer your questions. For example, on Monday morning, I asked Siri AI what I had on my plate for the week, and it gathered details from my recent text messages to highlight an upcoming order arriving from TikTok Shop. It also nudged me to grab tickets to the movie at the Castro Theater that friends had been discussing in a group chat. In addition to context from my texts, Siri also went through my calendar, marking a birthday party and tickets to a live performance as other key events. 这意味着 Siri 可以轻松地从整个设备中提取数据，从而更好地回答你的问题。例如，周一早上，我问 Siri AI 我这周有什么安排，它从我最近的短信中收集了详细信息，并重点提示了我一个即将从 TikTok Shop 送达的订单。它还提醒我购买朋友们在群聊中讨论过的卡斯特罗剧院（Castro Theater）的电影票。除了短信中的语境，Siri 还查看了我的日历，将生日派对和现场演出门票标记为其他关键事件。
Don’t want Siri to use your interactions with a specific app? In your phone’s Settings, go to the Siri AI section and scroll down to App Access. Then, choose which app you want to change and toggle Learn from this App to the left. “Allow Siri to learn how you use this app to make suggestions across apps,” reads a beta version of the description under this toggle. These are enabled by default if Siri AI is turned on. 不想让 Siri 使用你与特定应用程序的交互数据？在手机的“设置”中，进入“Siri AI”部分并向下滚动到“应用访问权限”。然后，选择你想要更改的应用程序，并将“从该应用学习”开关向左拨动。该开关下方的测试版描述写道：“允许 Siri 学习你如何使用此应用，以便在不同应用间提供建议。”如果开启了 Siri AI，这些选项默认是启用的。
This revamped Siri is baked into the phone’s search function. So, if you swipe down in the middle of the screen, Siri pops up with a Search or Ask bar. You can type into that blank space or tap the microphone icon to ask your question. If you hit enter, more often than not it will send the query to Siri for answers. For example, I typed “What’s a good route for driving to Sacramento?” into Siri. It pulled up the Maps app with a suggested driving path pre-chosen. Not bad! If you want, you can still tap Show Results below. 这个改版后的 Siri 被内置到了手机的搜索功能中。因此，如果你在屏幕中间向下滑动，Siri 会弹出一个搜索或提问栏。你可以在空白处输入文字，或点击麦克风图标来提问。如果你按下回车键，它通常会将查询发送给 Siri 以获取答案。例如，我在 Siri 中输入“去萨克拉门托的最佳驾车路线是什么？”它调出了地图应用，并预先选定了一条建议的行车路线。还不错！如果你愿意，仍然可以点击下方的“显示结果”。