Apple's new Siri AI beta can reach information across your iPhone. A few settings let you decide what it sees and whether your use helps train Apple's AI.
With iOS 27, Apple has released a beta of Siri AI, a version of Siri that can pull information from across your iPhone. If you use banking, notes or work apps on that phone, a few minutes in Settings can limit what the assistant learns from them.
For years, Siri was an underwhelming assistant. Apple has now merged its own models with Google's Gemini to make it far more capable. The new Siri can tap into your information, understand what is on your screen, and adjust the tone of a message based on who you are writing to. It also works with Visual Intelligence, which understands what you see through the camera.
Apple says your data stays private, even when the cloud is used to do something Siri could not handle alone. Apple also runs a bounty program that pays people who find flaws in its Private Cloud Compute system. There is no sign so far that Apple sells data to other companies or uses it without consent.
The new Siri behaves a lot like ChatGPT or Gemini, but it lives inside your phone, where your messages, notes and apps are. That is a lot of access. Some of what you share also depends on choices made during setup. Apple's setup process asks whether you want to share location, app crash data and even Siri audio with Apple, and many people tap through it quickly.
ChatGPT is another thing to check. Siri could already hand requests to ChatGPT. If you were logged in to a ChatGPT account, everything you asked Siri could be shared with ChatGPT, and chats would sync. Reports suggest few people used it, and the new Siri makes it less necessary.
The beta is for iPhone 15 Pro and newer, and only in limited languages and regions. It is not yet available in Europe or China. If your phone is older, or you live in those places, there is nothing to change yet.
The settings matter most for people who keep banking, notes or work apps on their phone. They also matter if children or other people often use the phone and ask Siri questions.
The steps are in the alert box above. In short, you can cut off ChatGPT, keep Siri from learning from sensitive apps, and stop your use from helping Apple improve its AI. The app-level controls use on-device technology, so that information does not leave your phone. If you have not turned on Siri AI yet, you can decline the improvement prompt when it appears.
The same Analytics & Improvements screen lists other ways you may be sharing data with Apple. You can switch those off too and still use the phone normally.
Siri AI is still a beta, and the source says Apple has a long way to go before it calls this a stable feature. Settings and options could change as it develops. It is also not clear when it will reach Europe or China. Check these settings again after major updates.
If you try the new Siri, switch off ChatGPT, limit sensitive apps and opt out of Siri improvement sharing.
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