David Pogue: ‘125 Tests of the New AI Siri’

David Pogue:

The hardest part will be getting out of the habit of opening apps, and remembering that you have Siri. Give it a few tries. Learn to trust it. You’ll save incredible amounts of time and fumbling.

I used the beta-test version all summer, growing more and more excited. Now that the final version is out, I wanted to see how often it gets things right. It is AI, after all. So I ran it through 125 tests.

Some of these tasks are things Apple said are possible. Some ideas, I picked up from people on Reddit trying stuff. Some, I just wondered if Siri could do. It failed a handful of times. But a few other times, it absolutely blew me away. It did amazing things I bet you never suspected Siri could do.

I’ve been using iOS 27 with the new Siri AI since the week after WWDC, and the single biggest problem I have echoes Pogue’s: remembering that Siri is now useful. I keep doing things manually, then thinking “Hey, I should have tried that with Siri...”, trying it again with Siri after the fact, and realizing only then that Siri accomplished the thing.

★ Monday, 21 September 2026