Reporter Puts New AI Siri Through 125 Tasks: Reads Your Mail, Texts and Notes, Mostly Delivers
revodavid · x · 2026-09-17
Columnist David Pogue tested the new AI Siri (shipping with OS 27) across 125 tasks and calls it "a phone-changer." Key takeaways:
- The assistant reads on-device data across Mail, Messages, Notes, Calendar, Files, Photos and more — all locked locally, inaccessible even to Apple
- Highlights: instantly answering "what did my wife say about the plants," "what show did Casey recommend," "what's my flight to Austin"
- Pogue says it replaces most Google searches and ChatGPT/Claude interactions, cutting app-switching and copy-pasting
- A handful of the 125 tasks failed; retweeter revodavid found "delete all my alarms" failed despite dozens of alarms
- The biggest hurdle is habit: remembering to use Siri instead of opening apps
Overall verdict is glowing, though individual failures show some features remain inconsistent.
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