THE ESSENTIALS IN 30 SECONDS

  • iOS 27.2 adds French, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese and Spanish to Siri AI, all labelled beta.
  • Siri AI can now remember details from earlier conversations, and users can exclude specific apps from that memory.
  • Siri AI launched in English only with iOS 27 in September and requires an iPhone 15 Pro or newer.

Apple has started rolling out iOS 27.2 to iPhones and iPads, and the headline change for many users outside the English-speaking world is that Siri AI — the generative overhaul of Apple's assistant — now understands five additional languages: French, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese and Spanish. According to TechCrunch, all five are still marked as beta.

What changes in this update

When iOS 27 shipped in mid-September, Siri AI only worked on devices set to English. Apple had said at its September 9 iPhone event that the five new languages would follow in October, and they first appeared in the iOS 27.2 developer beta a week later, as MacRumors and others reported at the time.

Beyond languages, the update gives Siri a form of memory: it can retain details from previous conversations and reuse them in later answers. It can also draw on more personal context, including photos shared in Messages, attendees of calendar events, voicemails, Safari history and reading lists. Users can exclude individual apps from what Siri AI remembers, TechCrunch reports.

Who can use it

Siri AI is not available on every iPhone. Engadget, reporting on Apple's September announcement, says support starts with the iPhone 15 Pro and 15 Pro Max, while the iPhone 17 Pro models and iPhone Air run more capable on-device models. Some requests are sent to Apple's cloud models, which come with daily usage limits; Apple has said iCloud+ plans will raise those limits, though details remained thin.

Open questions

The sources do not list which regional variants are covered — for example, whether Canadian French or Brazilian and European Portuguese behave identically — and German, Italian, Chinese and other major languages are still missing. Apple has indicated more languages will come later, without dates. The "beta" label also suggests accuracy may vary while Apple gathers feedback.

The release also bundles more than 160 security fixes. TechCrunch notes that many were backported to iOS 26, which Apple's own figures suggest about 80% of iPhone owners still run.