In iOS 27, Siri App Will Reportedly Allow Automatic Chat Deletion for Privacy
Apple's upcoming iOS 27 is expected to feature a standalone Siri app that allows users to automatically delete their chat history for enhanced privacy. This move aims to differentiate Siri from other chatbots that retain user data for personalization. The new app will also include tighter restrictions on data collection and memory features.
- ▪iOS 27 will introduce a dedicated Siri app with options for automatic chat deletion.
- ▪Apple is focusing on privacy by allowing users to manage their chat history similar to the Messages app.
- ▪The report follows a recent $250 million settlement over Siri's AI features that were not delivered as promised.
PCMag files mainly under tech. We currently carry 367 of its stories.
Story provenance
Source · retrieval · rights · ranking — open for full record
inspect →
Story provenance
Attribution is not the same as permission. This drawer separates discovery metadata, excerpts, WeSearch-generated summaries, reuse status, and whether the publisher receives the visit. Nothing here claims a legal grant the publisher has not made.
Record
| Original publisher | PCMag |
| Canonical URL | https://www.pcmag.com/news/in-ios-27-siri-app-will-reportedly-allow-automatic-chat-deletion-for-privacy |
| Publication time | Mon, 18 May 26 09:21:21 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-05-18T09:29:56.123Z |
| Last seen | 2026-05-18T09:29:56.123Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | OfOXlj0Pxtt8 |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
Rights status (four layers)
WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
Opening excerpt (first ~120 words) tap to expand
iOS 27 will be unveiled in less than a month, and rumors around expected features are beginning to pile up. The latest scoop, reported by Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman, is that the standalone Siri app will provide options to automatically delete your chats.With iOS 27, Apple is reportedly planning to give Siri a dedicated app to let users get their questions answered by a chatbot of their choice. The interface is expected to resemble some leading AI apps, with a prompt box and a response window for back-and-forth conversations.As Siri transitions, Apple hopes to stand out by placing privacy at its core, Gurman says.
…
Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at PCMag.
Discussion
0 commentsMore from PCMag
