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Apple is building a memory for Siri that learns about your life

Code in an early iOS 27.3 test version suggests Siri could remember your routines, health and relationships. Apple has not said when, or what privacy controls come with it.

By the Dashline deskSource: MacRumors
Apple is building a memory for Siri that learns about your life
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Apple appears to be building a way for Siri to remember details about your life. Code in the iOS 27.3 beta, an early test version of Apple's phone software, points to it. A code explorer known as pdfu shared the findings, and MacRumors reported them.

What the code shows

The system includes a "memory graph" that organizes information about relationships, places, routines, health, workouts, and what motivates users or holds them back. It also describes "memory atoms," small records for facts, opinions, intentions and events, with details on the people, places, times and topics involved.

Information would arrive in two ways. One reads structured data, such as the name fields on your own contact card. The other uses an AI model on the device, or Apple's Private Cloud Compute, to pull insights from Siri conversations, messages, photos and health data.

So far only one of the AI-driven processes appears in the code. pdfu believes it looks for motivations, barriers and resources using 60 built-in questions, including some about routines that might get in the way of sleep.

What is not known yet

The system is unfinished. pdfu says nothing creates memory atoms yet, and a separate store for explicit memories exists but nothing writes to it. Nothing found says when this could launch or what control users will have over their data. Siri can already find information in Mail, Messages and Photos. A memory would gather more of your personal data in one place, so Apple's privacy controls are worth watching.

The takeaway

Siri may soon remember much more about you, so watch for Apple's privacy controls before this feature ships.

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