Siri AI Set for iOS 27 Launch Next Week as Early Use Highlights Personal-Data Tasks

The first involved the NFL schedule. The writer said he asked Siri to find all Dallas Cowboys games and add them to his calendar, specifying that each entry include where the game could be streamed, since NFL games now air across FOX One, Paramount+, Peacock, Prime Video, ESPN and Netflix. According to the account, Siri added every game with the viewing information attached, work the writer said he had previously done by hand or through league-supplied calendar files that were cumbersome to use from an iPhone.

In the second case, the writer was filling out an online form that required his vehicle license plate number. He did not have the number memorized and his wife had the car at the time. He asked Siri to find his current license plate number, and within a few seconds Siri returned the number along with a link to a registration renewal email where it had located the information, a message he said he did not remember receiving.

The third example followed Apple's September event, after which Apple Watch Series 12 and Apple Watch Ultra 4 went on sale. Shopping for a Solo Loop band, which requires a precise size selection, the writer could not recall his own size and did not want to run a size test while ordering. He told Siri that he had previously bought an Apple Watch with a Solo Loop and was trying to find his size; Siri located it in an old note saved years earlier that he had forgotten.

9to5Mac said the three cases illustrate what it considers Siri's central advantage: drawing on personal data in an intelligent and privacy-friendly way. The writer added that he regularly uses the assistant for general world-knowledge questions he would previously have asked ChatGPT or Google Gemini.

The examples come from the publication's own use of the assistant rather than from independent testing, and 9to5Mac presented them as a snapshot of the upgrade ahead of its wide release. The first of the three relied on the writer's stated preferences about streaming services; the other two depended on Siri searching the writer's email and notes for information he could not recall himself.