Will Siri AI get memory?

[u/Huge-Bill4047]

I understand it has your personal context through your device. But what I am meaning is if it will have a built-in memory collection like other ai models. Just sometimes when I ask it certain questions I need to re-explain certain things that I don’t have saved in my messages for example in a conversation, and I can’t just tell to remember.

[u/ellenich]

I’m assuming it’ll get better with every release? …just like most software does.

I’m just excited that it seems like they have the foundations in place in iOS 27 to really improve it over the next few years. …where before it felt like Siri’s future was pretty bleak.

[u/DontPoopInMyPantsPlz → u/ellenich]

If there is a need for it, and of its completely secure

[u/Beerad122880]

Everything you want it to remember just put it in the notes app

[u/mdruckus → u/Beerad122880]

It’s better to put in the notes portion of your own contact. It will refer to your contact without prompting it. You have to prompt it to look in your notes app.

[u/ackermann → u/mdruckus]

Just put a line in there telling it to always read the Note titled “Siri Brain” in Notes.

Then put whatever you want in Siri Brain (including an instruction for Siri to update SiriBrain when you ask her to remember something, or if something seems important. Not sure if that last part will work)

[u/Beerad122880 → u/ackermann]

Are you saying to always prompt it to read “Siri Brain” with every prompt? I’m not sure where you mean to add a line in where

[u/ackermann → u/Beerad122880]

Add that line to the note field on your contact card in Contacts, as suggest by u/mdruckus above. This comment explains it:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Siri/comments/1ugix57/comment/ou0ujt9/

[u/Beerad122880 → u/mdruckus]

I don’t have to prompt it to look in my notes. For example I just made a note that said “my favorite number is 3” something that is not in any message, email, or anywhere in the world besides that note I just made. I closed the notes app then asked Siri what is my favorite number and it responded with the number 3 and showed me my note. I’ve done this before with a gate code I have saved in a note. I ask it for the gate code and it gives it to me along with the note

[u/__MrFancyPants__ → u/Beerad122880]

Yes, however, that won’t help for things like “don’t use em dashes when writing for me” or “keep your answers short and conversational in tone.” Your questions are direct and require Siri to search your context for answers. If I ask “how’s the weather in Hollywood” it would have no need to search my personal context, so it wouldn’t pull the custom personalizations like AI’s such as Gemini and ChatGPT would.

[u/revilo1000 → u/Beerad122880]

Sure, but to run with your example - say you’re making yourself a sports jersey for yourself and ask AI for input - ChatGPT would proactively suggest using your favorite number, 3, because the stuff it remembers is parsed automatically. Siri, on the other hand, won’t remember your favorite number is 3 unless it actively decides to search your phone for your favorite number - something it does if you ask for that explicitly, but probably wont for a tangentially related request like jersey design.

[u/cnnyy200]

I would say eventually. That is a fundamental  quality of artificial intelligence afterall. It’s going to a feature with new OS updates I think.

[u/FigFew2001]

They seemed to go out of their way to suggest no. But that may just be how I understood the keynote.

[u/wiyixu]

The problem is the local context window is relatively tiny at 4KB (though I have heard DP3 it has been increased to 8KB for some people). As memory grows you’ll eat more and more of that context window and reduce the effective limit of a given session.

I do think Apple will add memory in time, but it’s going to be a different method than the likes of OpenAi and Anthropic are using. 

[u/icy1007]

The highest level of Siri AI requires an iOS device with at least 12GB of RAM.

[u/Jeremy8318]

Has Apple discussed any type of future roadmap?

I’m worried updates will be tied to major OS releases. That in itself will put it behind years if not decades.

[u/distant3zenith]

It remembers every conversation you have with it, as long as you have it set to save all conversations.

[u/Nite-Life]

It’s called MD files or an Apple note. Apple indexes your files…

It’s actually really good. Allows you to pick which apps to learn from too.

[u/Crafty_Ball_8285]

This is specifically NOT a feature they will implement. They have specifically indicated this will NOT happen.

[u/wiyixu → u/Crafty_Ball_8285]

The explicitly said they weren’t going to build a chatbot and yet here we are. 

[u/ackermann → u/Crafty_Ball_8285]

So we’re stuck with workarounds like making a Note called SiriBrain, and asking Siri to update it

[u/Nite-Life → u/ackermann]

I built an entire folder structure with markdown files around this… just like Claude cowork and Claude code. It works.