iOS 27 means it’s time to be excited for Siri… again

iOS 27. Are we getting excited about Siri? Siri on the iPhone? That's kind of what, yeah, I kind of am excited about

Let me explain what's going on with iOS 27 and Siri. And see, so Siri now, known as Siri AI, is more powerful, it's more helpful, and understands and responds in more natural conversational ways

And it does all of this while keeping the stuff on your phone nice and private, so it's not going out to the cloud and getting ads for Thai restaurants you don't want

But what's neat about this is you can now ask Siri pretty much anything

Siri, why does the stars twinkle in the sky? Siri, what restaurant am I meeting Faith at for the scene at dinner tonight

And it will find that. It will find it through the stuff on your phone. or if it has to go to the cloud, it uses this neat thing called Private Relay to separate out the stuff that you're asking and your prompts and the actual stuff where it's going

Whether that the Google Foundation model it not run in Gemini I know we thought about that or the NVIDIA models Yeah it uses both of them to make it more smart and it does a lot of other things You can actually ask Siri pretty much anything you want from your phone

but there's also a new app on your phone, literally called Siri

and it just gathers together all your prompts and questions and conversations into one place

But you know what? Why keep Siri? Why hold Siri back? We've got Siri in the camera app now. There's a new Siri mode

So I can have it look at a photo and answer questions about a photo

Maybe I took a photo of, you know, Twin Peaks in San Francisco

We have Carl the Fog rolling over, and I don't know what that fog is. I can ask Siri to explain what the fog is, and Siri would then show me answers for what the marine layer is and things like that

All of this is coming in iOS 27. Now, a couple caveats for Siri

Number one, Siri is in beta, and you have to sign up for it right now

and all of this is coming this fall. Second, it's only gonna be in England, okay

So yeah, a lot of people won't be able to use it right away. And third, that's not the only thing I'm excited about

In iOS 27 there also stronger protection for kids and better tools for parents to use to protect them There two new features one called Ask to Browse and Ask to Buy which makes the names right there

Basically, the parent has to approve that purchase or that website for a kid to look at it

There's actually stronger warnings and explicit pop-ups of someone's on a FaceTime call

and there's something they should be seeing. It will black out the screen and have a giant warning over that content

And here's the thing I think for parents is going to be great. the controls have been completely revamped

It should be much easier for you to use and to set up and maintain

which ultimately is going to be the success of keeping your kids away from some of the stuff as best you can

Okay, so there's one more thing we've got to talk about with iOS 27, and that's liquid glass

Now, if there's ever been something that has divided a republic, it's this

So some people like liquid glass, and some people absolutely hate it

And Apple's adding some more refinements to it. So you can customize your liquid glassness

on your iPhone and iOS 27. You wanna go less transparent? You could do that You wanna go full ultra clear You could do that too It all customizable now And I think this is going to make a lot of people happy and for those who like not purposely upgraded to like some

versions of iOS 26 yeah go ahead and do it you're going to be fine by time iOS 27 comes out I think

we have a lot more refinement there so liquid glass is it going to be divisive I hope not we'll

find out by the way I should say we've not tried any of these things if this got announced today

We're excited to do that. So let's talk about some dates. So iOS 27 is going to come out this fall

Siri is rolling out in beta. It's unclear if it will also be in beta when it comes out this fall or if it's just right now

The developer beta is out right now. So we're going to us and some, well, software developers will be trying that

And the public beta will come out this summer. So if you want to try that, we do recommend using maybe not your main device to try these things on since they are buggy, since they are meant to be refined

But I want to hear from you guys. What do you think about iOS 27? Are you here for the liquid glass

Are you ready to ask Siri a ton of questions? Let me know in the comments. Lastly, if you enjoyed this all things mobile video, please like and subscribe

And thank you for watching. Hey, Siri, please subscribe to CNET. That's iOS 26

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