News
Apple Releases iOS 27 Public Beta With New Siri AI and Claude Support
iOS 27's public beta brings a completely rebuilt Siri AI designed to work more like ChatGPT or Claude. Apple is also preparing an extensions system that would let users plug Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google models into Siri instead of its own engine.
Contents
Apple released the first public beta of iOS 27 on July 13, 2026, giving everyday iPhone users access to the deepest overhaul of Siri since its debut. The new assistant, called Siri AI, holds continuous conversations, draws on private data stored on the phone, and carries out multi-step tasks inside apps instead of just handling simple commands.
What's changing in Siri
The key difference from previous versions is so-called personal context, meaning the assistant's access to the user's mail, messages, notes, reminders, and calendar. Siri AI can also read whatever is currently on screen and use it to answer questions or perform actions inside apps, such as creating a Wallet pass from a photo or planning a route with several stops.
The interface is built around Dynamic Island, where a new, colorful bubble now shows Siri's responses. Swiping down expands the conversation, and the full history can be browsed in a dedicated Siri app resembling the interface familiar from ChatGPT. The assistant can be triggered by voice, the side button, or a swipe down from the top edge of the screen.
Extensions with Claude, Gemini, and ChatGPT
The element of the overhaul most significant for the AI industry is a framework tentatively named Apple Intelligence Extensions. It's meant to create an integration layer in which Siri remains the orchestrator while the user chooses which model actually answers their queries. Rather than an exclusive partnership with a single provider, as has been the case with OpenAI so far, Apple wants to give users a choice between ChatGPT, Google Gemini, and Anthropic's Claude.
According to unofficial reports, the mechanism would work along the lines of iOS's existing extensions model: the user installs the chosen AI provider's app from the App Store, enables it in Apple Intelligence and Siri settings, and then directs specific queries to it. Siri itself decides when to hand a question off to the external model and when to answer using its own resources.
Autocorrect is terrible - a participant in the beta program testing Siri AI in iOS 27
Limitations and early impressions
Early public beta testers praise Siri AI's broader range of capabilities but point to details that still feel unfinished. Reported issues include autocorrect errors, limited functionality compared with rival chatbots, and trouble exporting documents. One tester complained that the assistant couldn't provide a specific recipe he directly asked for, despite the promised deeper personalization.
iOS 27 supports iPhones from the 11 onward as well as the second-generation iPhone SE and later, but Apple Intelligence itself still requires an iPhone 15 Pro or newer. At launch, the most advanced features are limited to the latest 17 Pro models and the iPhone Air. For now the system only works in select variants of English and isn't available in the European Union.
What this means for the AI market
For Anthropic and OpenAI, potentially being plugged into Siri as optional engines means access to hundreds of millions of active iPhones without having to convince users to install a separate app. For Apple, it amounts to an admission that its own model doesn't need to win every query, and that keeping Siri as the entry point to all these services on the device matters more.
The extensions mechanism itself remains officially unconfirmed by Apple, and reports about it rely mainly on earlier findings from journalists who cover the company, supplemented by observations from the beta. Formal confirmation of the details isn't expected until closer to the final iOS 27 release in the fall.
For Polish iPhone users, what will matter is whether and when Siri AI and the Claude or Gemini extensions reach markets beyond English, since the feature skips the entire European Union at launch. That's a recurring pattern with Apple Intelligence rollouts, which typically reach Europe several months after the United States.
Sources: iOS 27 public beta is here with Siri AI, iPhone speed upgrades, and more (9to5mac.com), iOS 27 and iPadOS 27 Now Available to Public Beta Testers (macrumors.com), Hands-On With iOS 27's Siri AI (macrumors.com), Apple Siri iOS 27 Extensions: Claude, Gemini & ChatGPT (digitalapplied.com)
