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iOS 27 will be unveiled in less than a month, and rumors around expected features are beginning to pile up. The latest scoop, reported by Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, is that the standalone Siri app will provide options to automatically delete your chats.
With iOS 27, Apple is reportedly planning to give Siri a dedicated app to let users get their questions answered by a chatbot of their choice. The interface is expected to resemble some leading AI apps, with a prompt box and a response window for back-and-forth conversations.
As Siri transitions, Apple hopes to stand out by placing privacy at its core, Gurman says. While most rival chatbots retain chat history data to train their AI models and provide more personalized responses, Apple wants to give its users the option to automatically delete their chats at regular intervals.
The company will also place tighter restrictions on how Siri’s memory feature works and limit the kind of data it can collect, Gurman adds.
Auto-deletion in Siri will work similarly to the iOS Messages app and its Message History feature. On the Messages settings page, you can decide whether to keep conversations for 30 days, a year, or forever, the report says.
The report arrives just weeks after Apple settled a lawsuit over its Siri AI for $250 million. The case was about AI-powered Siri features Apple advertised with the iPhone 16, but failed to deliver. Those features, including Siri’s ability to tap into users’ personal context to deliver more curated responses and to take actions across apps, are still awaited.
We expect to hear more about these missing features and the standalone Siri app during the WWDC keynote on June 8. Other major iOS 27 rumors include an overhaul of the Camera app and new AI editing tools for Photos.