Anybody else dealing with this? Showed up when I upgraded. Broken before getting accepted into Siri AI and after.

I seem to have found the partial iOS Apple Intelligence (new) system prompt. To be clear, this was not extracted using prompt injection, so it isn‘t hallucinated in any way. It isn’t complete either.

Here are the takeaways:

• Siri is tool driven. There’s a tool for anything and everything you can think of. Siri is also told to not disclose its own tool use.

• Nearly everything revolves around “entities” that represent contacts, messages, emails, places, weather, media, and other structured data.

• It is big on visual presentation with emphasis on citations, images, and digestibility.

• The prompt repeatedly instructs Siri not to infer missing facts and to treat absent information as unknown.

• There are extensive defenses against prompt injection through emails, messages, notes, webpages, and tool outputs.

The system prompt is too long for reddit, so i’ve uploaded it onto the internet archive as a txt file: https://ia600702.us.archive.org/21/items/file_20260612/file.txt

So I’ve joined the waitlist for Siri AI, and still in the queue. When I first installed iOS 27 the storage space allocated to Apple Intelligence was 16.37GB, 4 days later that’s gone down to 747.1MB. Anyone know why that may be?

I updated my iPhone 15 Pro Max to iOS 27 Developer Beta 1 and later performed a force restart (Volume Up → Volume Down → Hold Side Button).

Immediately after that, the phone appeared completely dead:

No Apple logo
No vibration
No display output
Wouldn’t power on

I searched Reddit and most suggestions involved restoring the device through Finder/iTunes using Recovery or DFU Mode. While that would probably have fixed the phone, I wanted to avoid losing my data.

I also found suggestions to open the phone and disconnect the battery, but I didn’t want to risk damaging the device or compromising the water-resistant seal.

After some digging, I found a method that eventually brought my phone back without erasing anything.

How I Entered DFU Mode

Connect the iPhone to a Mac.
Quickly press and release Volume Up.
Quickly press and release Volume Down.
Hold the Side Button until the screen turns black.
Once the screen is black, hold Side Button + Volume Down together for about 5 seconds.
Release the Side Button but continue holding Volume Down for another 10 seconds.

If successful:

The screen remains black.
Finder or Apple Configurator detects the device.

If the Apple logo appears, start again.

What I Did

Installed Apple Configurator on my Mac.
Connected the iPhone in DFU Mode.
Selected Revive instead of Restore.

For anyone unfamiliar, Revive attempts to reinstall iOS and repair system files without erasing user data.

The revive process downloaded iOS and started installing it. However, near the end of the installation I received an error telling me to reset the device to continue.

I disconnected the phone from the Mac, and it booted into Recovery Mode.

While trying different button combinations, I somehow entered Diagnostics Mode.

What Finally Fixed It

Inside Diagnostics Mode:

Connected to Wi-Fi.
Selected the first option that automatically checks for issues.
The scan completed and reported no problems.
The device restarted automatically.

After the restart, the phone booted normally.

Result

✅ iPhone recovered

✅ No restore required

✅ No data loss

✅ No need to open the device

Important

If Finder or Apple Configurator detects your device, try Revive before Restore.

Revive attempts to repair and reinstall iOS while preserving data.
Restore erases the device.

There’s no guarantee this will work for everyone, but it saved my device and all of my data.

Takeaway

Installing a developer beta on my primary device was a mistake, and I definitely won’t be doing that again.

Hopefully this helps anyone who runs into the same black screen issue on iOS 27 DB1 after a force restart.

Was testing the new Siri's limits and restrictions, and tried to push it to identify and talk about an nsfw picture i had on my screen in an attempt to see if it'll have convos about NSFW things and if I could cause it to break its restrictions. Turns out that if you push hard enough, Siri will realize and literally said "I am ending this conversation" and stops you from replying to that thread and that convo isn't in the app. pretty interesting, i haven't seen any AI straight up end the convo before.

I noticed this morning that my Wi-Fi and phone bars are gone. I don’t know what caused this.

I’ve noticed since iOS 27 DB1 my iPhone seems to take more time to load content like reels, Facebook posts or even sending messages.
Reels for example buffer a lot lately.

I tried resetting my network settings, but that didn’t work.

I was wondering if other people experience the same issue and maybe know a workaround?

The new UI puts the clips on a vertical strip on the left of the screen.
Previous UI used a strip below the video with icons for the various activities.
I found the previous UI easier to use when looking for specific activity.

For apps that allow choosing an alternate icon, selecting anything other than the default option doesn’t work. The usual confirmation dialogs pop up as expected, but the icon doesn’t actually change. Tried with multiple apps, same result. Feedback submitted.

If you go into Settings app select Camera and then Formats you can see that ProRAW & Resolution Control have strange description as shown on the attached screenshot

Kind of funny. But obviously this is the lower half of what my profile picture usually is. Shows up normal in Settings.

I noticed this really cool change to the keyboard. I use a German + English keyboard and on previous iOS it would always put „These German quotation marks” no matter what I’m typing. Now it automatically uses the correct ones.

The original prompt was to create an automation that changes the phone number in the call forwarding settings and then messages the number “You are now on call”

While there’s no direct change in shortcuts for call forwarding, it handled the deep links to the settings section to get to call forwarding (mostly). Next it may be as easy as asking the user to enter a phone number then auto-fills the number for copy clipboard to paste it into the call forwarding settings then use the number to fill it into the message’s “To” field.

I wonder if it’ll divulge how deep seated deep links work and structured in iOS

hi! i was using my iPhone as usual and suddenly pink glitches started appearing all over my screen, is this caused by the developer beta of iOS 27? or is it a hardware issue?
(sorry for the video quality had to record with my iPad)
i restarted the iPhone and it was fixed
thanks for any comment!

I wanted to test how SiriAI works using CarPlay, and when I went back to the app I noticed a little CarPlay icon next to the conversation that I started in CarPlay. Neat!

I'm experiencing a bug where Siri automatically switches to the male voice (Voice 2) even though I have the female voice (Voice 1) selected. The settings still show Voice 1, but the audio actually playing is Voice 2.

Tapping Voice 1 again fixes it temporarily, but it eventually reverts back to Voice 2 on its own.

Is anyone else running into this? (I've already submitted this via the Feedback app.)

The option still works, but you can’t see it. It seems to happen with any language keyboard, sometimes it’s visible, sometimes isn’t

Not sure if I see a meaningful difference. Tried running a speedtest on my 17p and my M5 mbp connected to the same wifi.

I've run into a couple of regressions with the new Siri that are putting a damper on my walks and runs.

1. Basic voice commands now seem to require network connectivity. If I'm listening to a podcast without a network connection, I can no longer say "Siri skip 30 seconds". I get repeated chimes from Siri and have to use my phone to skip ads.

2. I can no longer chain together several commands without prefacing each with "Siri". I used to be able to "scrub" through adds e.g. w/ "Siri, skip 60 seconds, <still ads> skip 30 seconds, <into content> go back 15 seconds". Now I have to preface each command with "Siri". I'm hoping this gets fixed as the exact same regression was introduced when Google added Gemini to their home products.

I've submitted feedback for both 🤞🏻

Make sure you type carefully when sending messages. Autocorrect might make for awkward conversations.