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Siri AI is here. After years of an underwhelming experience with Apple's personal assistant, the company merged its models with Google's Gemini algorithm to bring an AI that can tap into users' information, features on-screen awareness, and improved Apple Intelligence features, like adapting the tone of a message based on who you're talking with, understanding what you see through Visual Intelligence, and more. Still, if you think this new Siri knows too much about you, there are a few privacy settings you can change on your iPhone to prevent the personal assistant from having all-free access to your data, such as toggling off the ChatGPT extension, removing access from some sensitive apps, or even preventing Apple from using your chats to train its AI model.

Right now, the Siri AI experience is in beta, so iPhone 15 Pro (or newer) owners can try it in limited languages and regions, as it's still unavailable to European and Chinese users.…