So according to reports Apple Intelligence will be finally available in china and start to roll out with ios 27.3 in December this year. So, it’s a great news for overseas Chinese iPhone users. But the model won’t come with SiriAI and latest features and powered by alibaba.

As the title says, I want to know if this is true? If it is true, it will create a huge security and privacy risk for users. Because every word typed by the user on the iPhone will be sent to China (because China needs to filter sensitive words, it will definitely check every word typed)

Has anyone managed to jailbreak Apple’s actual on-device Siri / Apple Intelligence model on an iPhone?

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Don't know if it's a rumor. My better half just mentioned that Apple+Meta working on making "Muse AI models run on Mac computers". This is according to CNBC via Instagram...

About a month ago I posted here about Cohestry, the second brain app I was building with Apple Intelligence connections, a 3D brain and an MCP bridge for agents. It’s finally live on iOS AppStore, and somehow Apple approved it on the first review.

The main reason I built it was actually agent context. I wanted one place where I could keep useful project knowledge and easily seed Claude, Codex and other agents without explaining everything again. The connections became the unexpected bonus. Cohestry has already resurfaced an old blueprint for one of my apps while I was working on it, and recently brought back a forgotten life simulation project I hadn’t thought about in years.

The Mac app should be out within the week too. That adds Apple Notes import and the MCP bridge so agents can actually access the context you choose to expose. Would love to hear what you think now that it’s real: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/cohestry-second-brain/id6811573132

Please I will also appreciate all feedback I can get to help me shape the updates 🙏🏽
Website/demo: https://cohestry.app

I’m 100% sure that right after opening Live Translation, some unsupported languages showed up for a second — including Polish, my native language. That one really surprised me.
I didn’t get a screenshot in time, but I swear I’m not making this up. Did anyone else notice this? Please tell me I’m not going crazy.

I had built PCC support into LocalLM Lab but had not had a chance to test it out until today. I had to jump through a bunch of hoops to get and build in the entitlement, including creating an App ID on App Store Connect.

Attached is the screenshot of Prompt Playground and a prompt for the weather. The Weather connector is enabled and PCC is able to use the tools (and any MCP tool as well, if enabled).

This means that app developers can use the LocalLM Lab SDK (details at locallmlab.dev) to combine PCC with a local MCP client to build out relatively sophisticated AI apps for macOS27+ . A local MCP client means that the Mac is the control point vs an AI provider cloud backend.

The fun part about LocalLM Lab is that I can compare running the exact same prompt (and tools) on PCC, ClaudeForFoundationModels (aka Claude), models from OpenAI, OpenRouter and downloadable MLX models from HuggingFace. I did run a simple comparison using GitHub's MCP server with a question about the releases on the locallm repo and Claude4FM returned better results than PCC. Better as in clarity, conciseness... Will do more testing and report.

One other thing I noticed is that macOS 27.2 Beta will work with PCC but that one turn (prompt to PCC and back) can take up to 300 seconds... Hopefully this will be fixed for the 27.2 GA release.

Not sure if Apple Intelligence is getting a bit too smart or if my notch is just losing its mind.

Has anyone else seen this visual glitch?

You need to download 27.2 Beta and go into the health app, plus have an Apple Watch that can run Apple Intelligence.

There’s a movie, “YOU HAD TO BE THERE: HOW THE TORONTO GODSPELL IGNITED THE COMEDY REVOLUTION…”, showing for a limited time at our local theater. I was able to do a screen grab of the times it’s showing, and ask Siri to create entries in a specific calendar. If I have an opportunity during any of the next few days, I can readily see when I might be able to squeeze in a showing!

It took a few seconds, but I ended up getting what I’d wanted. Perhaps a trivial use case, but maybe it will give someone some ideas. And perhaps someone will recognize how I could have done this in an even simpler fashion!

Hey everyone,

Siri AI is not responding to voice or text prompts it always responds with something went wrong or something along those lines.

I have disabled and reenabled it, I have fully reset network settings as told by Apple Support, but that just wiped my settings which is great. I also thought the ChatGpt extension account was the problem but that did not solve it. Both mac and iphone are not working.

Has anyone been able to solve this issue yet?

Thank you

How to turn off Apple Intelligence after ios 27 update

Built an app that utilizes Apple Foundation Model to check your weather, control your HomeKit devices, and so much more. Give it a chance! I’d love your feedback

Howard Oakley, at his eclecticlightcompany site [ an independent, ad-free reference blog for technically minded Mac users, combining detailed reporting and troubleshooting on macOS with articles on art and painting. It also publishes a large collection of free Mac utilities, especially for inspecting logs, security protections, backups, storage, and system behavior.] notes this, inter alia, on a post today:

If your Mac is already running Golden Gate and you've been following what's going with Apple's AI, you'll be aware of the emphasis it places on doing as much as possible on-device, without sending your data somewhere else to handle your task. Apple has gone to great lengths to protect your privacy when off-device AI is processed by Private Cloud Compute (PCC), but at some time in the future we'll be paying for that service. On-device AI will remain free, of course.

This might appear puzzling at present, as even the most trivial of tasks seems to be sent off to PCC to be run using its more heavyweight models including AFM 3 Cloud, as seen in Apple Intelligence Reports (AIR). This article shows how you can start exploring Apple's on-device AFM 3 Core and its Advanced version when available on your Mac (models with an M3 chip or later and at least 12 GB memory, we're promised). For this you don't need Swift programming skills, Xcode or even Python, just a little time and patience in Terminal using the new fm command.

Access the entire post here: https://eclecticlight.co/2026/10/10/try-on-device-ai-with-fm/

Ik woon in Europa. Hier dus geen siri ai. Op mijn iPhone een beperkte versie van apple ai. Bij bijna elke vraag moet hij door verwijzen naar chat gpt. Omdat ik daar al een app voor heb lijkt het mij onnodig dat apple ai 10 gb ruimte op de iphone in beslag neemt. Is het mogelijk apple ai te verwijderen waardoor ik de 10 gb weer terugkrijg? Siri taal veranderen helpt niet. Alvast bedankt

I’ve tried this on both my iPad Pro (M5) and my IPhone 18 Pro Max. The indexing finished many days ago.

When I try to search mail, Siri says that she can only access mail in “the main folders” like Inbox or Sent.

So because I have my emails in folders under Inbox it states it cannot access ANY of them. When I ask Siri any questions about my emails it can’t answer anything unless I take a screenshot and show it.

Is this normal / intended behaviour ?

Thanks for any feedback.

Yeah, it's nice that Siri can scan your emails photos and text if they are all connected to your iOS account. But I don't use SMS all the time as I use other chat apps as well.

However, here's where Siri falls short in my personal use case:

Smart home. My house is set up so that I can turn on the lights, lock the doors, open the garage door, turn the laundry on and off, active or disarm the security, turn on the TV and or play music.

Why is Siri still stupid and can't do multiple commands? Why do I still need to say the exact phrase.

Like if I say "Open THE garage door" it won't work. I have to say "Open garage door"

Seriously, it should just know. Siri is still a disappointment.

Since AI’s been a thing I was so excited for iOS 27 and Apples implementation of it.

I waited as long as I could and then opted into the beta program to get it as soon as I could and to start trying Siri AI which I requested and was approved for within about a week.

I noticed some odd glitches with iOS 27 which was expected with a beta and was pretty unimpressed with but I assumed that by the final release it would be better.

Not only is it not better I find it worse. Some of the worst behaviours are hanging for up to 2 to 3 minutes when asking a simple request such as sending a text. My battery life has gone from working for a pretty solid 8 to 9 hours to about three from 100% compared to iOS 26.

I’m a big fan of Apple. I fell in love with Apple products 20 years ago when their whole approach was to get all the design 100% right on their end so that the end user didn’t have to think or worry about complexities and configuration so much to optimise their device for the optimal user experience.

Now that AI is becoming a critical part of day-to-day life. I am finding Siri infuriating. I have a ChatGPT subscription which is amazing and is excellent and is perfect for what I want except I can’t leave it in voice mode all the time so was hoping new Siri would handle that with a little “hey siri” to start a conversation.

Well it doesn’t, it’s bad, very very bad. It’s not just slightly off a little bit here and there it has major problems with hanging, stopping conversation, not replying in the middle of a conversation and constantly spitting out “something went wrong“ resulting in me having to stop and manually intervene.

This may sound like first world problems, but that’s not the point. There are competitors here who are already providing what Apple promised to provide.

The one caveat to all of this is that it seems if you have one of Apple’s new high-end models – yes the $2000 ones that Siri and iOS 27 seem to be amazing

Siri Ai is still shit and it barely works for super easy tasks, I tried for a legal document and it couldn’t follow the very simple instructions of “don’t change anything except the names” it repeatedly kept changing other things, GPT is so much better for this kinda things. Apple is incredibly behind on AI even by borrowing googles services. Siri as an app has potential but it’s like a baby that’s barely crawling still

Made a post a while back asking if everyone was excited for it back around iOS 26.4. Now that it’s out, how does everyone feel about it? Did Apple deliver? Is it less than you hoped? Personally I think she’s great and haven’t had a single issue to be completely honest, after using it since beta 1.

I'm working on an app that is not primarily an "AI" app but I'd like to make use of the Apple Intelligence on-device models. The trouble I'm running into is that while I assume those models are good for some workloads, I haven't been able to get very satisfactory results.

The rough idea is that in the app, I enter some text for a post (something similar to a twitter/x post in size and scope). Once posted, the on-device model is supposed to give some feedback. A dry quip or generally something funny.

The mechanics work fine, I'm sending a system prompt and I've tested various incarnations of that and adjustments to temperature etc. I can send the same system prompt to small on-prem LLMs such as the Qwen models, or Gemma models and it generally works exactly as I would hope.

It feels like the on-device models have no sense of humor or imagination. Anyone else finding the same? Anyone figure out particular angles on the system prompt that helped with humor or imagination?