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WWDC 2026: Is Siri Actually Good Now?
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Siri's UI, Memory App, Spotlight Integration, and Live Testing
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The crew discusses Siri's new interaction design: it extends from the Dynamic Island as a persistent overlay on iPhone, always on top of whatever you're doing, mirroring how Gemini operates on Android. A dedicated Siri app acts as a memory bank for past queries and syncs across all Apple devices, picking up context between sessions. On the Mac, Siri is built into Spotlight (Command+Space) and can trigger on any question or action; a Siri option also appears in the screenshot tool for Circle-to-Search-style on-screen actions. Marques raises one pointed UX critique: unlike Google's assistant, Siri doesn't transcribe your words in real time as you speak — it just shows an orb, then delivers the text output. This makes it harder to course-correct mid-sentence. David's burrito-restaurant test showed Siri could handle complex multi-parameter queries and return mostly relevant results. When David asked about his flight's boarding time and Siri couldn't find it, instead of saying 'I can't help with that,' it offered the general rule that most flights board 40 minutes before departure — a meaningful improvement over the old Siri's dead-end responses.
David tested Siri by asking it to pull his WWDC briefing schedule from email and add it to his calendar. It worked — partially. Siri found the schedule, updated it with a follow-up email, and added events to his calendar in chunks. But it only used Apple Calendar, not Google Calendar, which is where his actual schedule lives.
