iOS 27 beta 3 lets Siri AI pull data from third-party apps

Apple's iOS 27 beta 3 marks a concrete step in the long-delayed Siri overhaul: Siri AI can now pull live information from select third-party apps—beta testers cite examples like electric-vehicle battery status—rather than being confined to Apple's own data. It also adds 'Pace' and 'Expressivity' controls letting users tune how fast and how expressively Siri speaks.

Mechanically, third-party data access requires user permission and structured app integration (via App Intents-style hooks), and it's the capability most needed to make Siri genuinely useful for cross-app tasks. The voice-customization controls are a smaller quality-of-life touch but signal Apple treating voice as a tunable product surface, arriving the same week OpenAI shipped GPT-Live.

Competitively, this is Apple trying to close the gap with Gemini Live and GPT-Live, though reviewers still rate Google's Gemini Pro models ahead of Siri AI for research tasks. Notably, developers pushed back on framing the revamp as 'just Gemini,' arguing Apple appears to be fine-tuning independently via distillation across a five-model AFM 3 suite rather than plugging Gemini in directly. Skeptics remember Apple's repeatedly slipped Siri promises. Watch which third-party apps get access at launch and whether the full overhaul actually ships in fall 2026 as planned.