Siri hasn’t had the best year, largely owing to major feature delays amid ever-stronger AI competition. While the big Siri upgrades we’ve been waiting for are reportedly coming next spring, Apple has five surprise new features available now in iOS 26.
iOS 26 makes Siri’s existing Apple Intelligence features more powerful and useful
Apple launched iOS 26 yesterday to all users, and simultaneously published a document outlining new features in more depth than ever before. Surprisingly, the document mentions five upgrades for Siri in iOS 26.
Until now, Apple has never mentioned Siri getting improvements in its latest update—likely to avoid reigniting criticism over the previously announced features that aren’t available yet.
Here’s what Apple says is new for Siri in iOS 26:
Siri product knowledge: Device and context awareness
When offering you product knowledge, Siri now takes your on-screen and on-device context into account, including information about your settings, model, and software.
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