Siri AI transforms Apple Watch experience as watchOS 27 beta shows dramatic improvements

Siri AI vs. Old Siri on Apple Watch: It Wasn't Even Close

"Here's what I found on the web" can finally be put to rest. I put both the old and the new version of Apple's Siri assistant through a few real-world questions on my Apple Watch(es) to see how they stack up. Spoiler: I'm keeping the new one, thank you very much. With the WatchOS 27 public beta rolling out this week, I wanted to take Siri AI for a spin where it matters most: the Apple Watch. Apple's digital assistant has long needed an upgrade, but nowhere have its shortcomings been more obvious than on your wrist. Previously, all the old Siri could do on the Apple Watch was return web results, leaving me to wait for pages to load on a tiny screen that wasn't designed for browsing. To get started, I downloaded the Public Beta of iOS 27 on my iPhone first (it's fairly stable, but I still wouldn't recommend it on a primary device), then installed the WatchOS 27 beta on my Apple Watch Ultra 3 through the Watch app. From there, I made sure Siri AI was activated in my iPhone settings; it defaulted to the new version on the watch as well. I kept my Series 11 running on the latest version of WatchOS 26 with the old Siri. Keep in mind that Siri AI and WatchOS 27 are early software and far from the final version that will be released this fall. Test 1: Ferry schedule I started with a question old Siri has failed me on before: "When's the next ferry from Vallejo to San Francisco?" Old Siri: "Here's what I found on the web." This response low-key triggers me. Waiting for a website to load on a tiny screen isn't helpful when I'm literally trying to catch a ferry. Siri AI: "The next ferry to San Francisco leaves Vallejo at 4:10 p.m." Winner: Siri AI Test 2: Kitchen help Next, I tried another situation where I'd rather not have to reach for my phone and risk getting it covered in whatever I'm cooking up. "What ingredients do I need to make buttermilk?" (A surprisingly common question now that I'm making frozen yogurt in my Ninja Creami.) Old Siri: "Here's what I found on the web." Argh! At least it's consistent. Siri AI: "To make a homemade buttermilk substitute, you need milk and an acid. The standard ratio is 1 tablespoon of acid for every cup of milk." The generic "acid" suggestion was a bit vague (and slightly concerning), but luckily, I've made it enough times to know it was referring to lemon juice or vinegar and not some dark web-type acid. I could've also asked a follow-up question to clarify (which old Siri can't handle either). Winner: Siri AI Test 3: World Cup For my final test, I asked something I've been checking a lot this summer (I asked on Monday, July 13). "When's the next World Cup match, and what stadium is it being played in?" Old Siri: "The next World Cup game is France vs. Spain tomorrow at noon PT." It answered the first part of the question but ignored the stadium entirely. Siri AI: "The next World Cup game is France vs. Spain tomorrow at noon PT at AT&T Stadium in Dallas." It even asked if I'd like to set a reminder. The stadium bit was a key part of the question, since some matches have been played during extreme heat, which has impacted the teams' performances. Winner: Siri AI Bonus round (not shown in the video) I also asked a question I was genuinely curious about: "Why was Erling Haaland substituted in the last minutes of the England vs. Norway match?" Old Siri: "Here's what I found on the web." Siri AI: He was suffering from severe fatigue and "dead leg injury," leading his coach to pull him during the World Cup quarter-final against England. Winner: Siri AI Final thoughts This is the first time I've intentionally wanted to use Siri on my Apple Watch, and I think it could be a game-changer. The WatchOS 27 Public Beta is available now, with the full release expected this fall alongside Apple's next big product announcements. I'll keep testing Siri AI as the beta evolves, but based on these early results, I won't be going back to the old version anytime soon.

I Tested the New Siri AI in watchOS 27 Beta. It Had Me Feeling Like a Secret Agent

Despite lacking a yellow coat and hat, I felt a bit like Dick Tracy on a late Friday afternoon after having an extended conversation with my Apple Watch Ultra 3. I wasn't trying to track down mobsters; I was planning my weekend with Siri. The new AI-powered version of Apple's famous digital assistant lives in its own dedicated app in watchOS 27 and can use context from past questions to sustain a back-and-forth dialogue. I've spent roughly a week testing the beta of Apple's latest watch software, and while Siri AI is the headliner, Apple made a lot of existing features more convenient and informative. The Smart Stack offers more contextual suggestions and has added convenient gesture controls. Workout Buddy has gotten better and can now work without your iPhone nearby. Apple also updated Cycle Tracking and Child Accounts. First announced at WWDC in June, the watchOS 27 public beta is available to download and try now ahead of its general release, expected this fall. If you're interested in trying out the software on your own Apple Watch, read on for instructions on how to get the public beta up and running. If you don't want to take the risk, wait for the stable version to arrive later this year. Meanwhile, check out my first impressions of watchOS 27 beta below. For this first look, I tested the latest watchOS 27 developer beta, which arrived one week before the public beta release. How to Get the watchOS 27 Beta Grabbing the watchOS 27 beta is free and easy, as long as you have a current Apple Watch and some time to download. Specifically, you need an iPhone 11 or later and an Apple Watch 9 or later (the Apple Watch SE 3 and the Apple Watch Ultra 2 and Ultra 3 are eligible). To get started, you need to sign up for Apple's beta software program using your Apple ID. Next, download the iOS 27 beta to your phone, which is also public. Go to Settings > General > Software Update > Beta Updates to get it. After you update your phone to iOS 27, you must go through a similar process in the Watch app. Open the app, switch to the My Watch tab, and navigate to General > Software Update > Beta Updates. While the software is downloading, Apple recommends keeping your phone and watch close together, with the watch on the charger. The files for the iOS 27 and the watchOS 27 updates are pretty big, so expect each step to take 30 minutes or more, depending on your internet speed. They also need additional time to install after the download. You might want to budget an hour for the process. If possible, keep both devices plugged in to avoid any potential battery issues. Note that this is still beta software, and you can't go back once you install it. I haven't encountered any major issues thus far, but it's possible you will encounter bugs that you wouldn't find in a general release. Siri AI Siri got an AI makeover across Apple's platforms. Siri itself is more conversational and can answer a broad range of questions about most topics searchable on the internet, as well as questions that include personal context, as it can quickly pull info from your Apple devices to find the relevant data. The makeover is similar to Alexa's transformation into Alexa+ and Google switching from Google Assistant to Gemini. Indeed, the change to Siri AI comes after Apple partnered with Google on AI, so Gemini is part of Siri's new smarts. In addition to its enhanced smarts, Siri now lives in an app called Siri AI. You can still talk to Siri using the "Hey Siri" voice commands and other shortcuts, but you can now see your past conversations in a central place and start a new query through the app. This app has a specific wrist version that mirrors the phone version in iOS 27. On the watch, you can quickly access the app by pressing the crown. On watchOS 26 and before, this button opened your app drawer. Now, it pulls up a grid of apps with Siri AI in the center with suggested apps around it. The suggested apps are populated dynamically based on which ones you've used recently and which you use most often. From here, you can swipe up to return to the app drawer. I often found this grid was smart enough to surface the app I was looking for, so I didn't often have to go to the app drawer during my week of testing. As for Siri AI, I enjoyed chatting with it. When planning my weekend, it let me know about upcoming festivals in my home city of Chicago and provided extra details when I had follow-up questions about music acts and food at the Taste of Chicago. It stumbled a bit when I asked for an outdoor patio where I could drink with my friends and play Cornhole. It did recommend a spot with a patio, but no yard games. After enabling access to my health data, I was able to ask Siri how I slept, but it didn't respond to my follow-up inquiry about the amount of deep sleep I got. Instead, it referred me to the Health app on my iPhone. Siri on the watch also didn't show my past conversations like the phone version. For general information inquiries, Siri drew on past questions, and I was able to have a back-and-forth about the offerings at nearby breweries. While the software still seems to need some polish (as expected for a beta version), Siri AI feels more conversational and helpful than past versions of Apple's digital helper. Health Features Workout Buddy gets smarter with watchOS 27. The cheerful AI motivator still chimes in during certain exercises with encouragement and stat updates. With Apple's latest software, you can use it without your phone as long as your watch has a cellular connection. It's aware of more metrics for more detailed insights as it talks, and it's now available in Spanish. This is particularly noticeable in its opening and closing greetings, where Workout Buddy adds extra context. It talked about my exercise rings with specific detail about how much progress I still needed to make. It went over all of my stats after the run in a helpful overview, and complemented my durability after my longer session. Apple has avoided making Workout Buddy prescriptive. It's designed to provide encouragement and updates on the stats you want to track, but it won't offer unprompted critiques or advice. After my run, it could have easily noted my particularly slow pace on my sluggish day, but it kept things positive by focusing on duration. Siri AI is not yet integrated with Workout Buddy for extra in-depth analysis. For indoor workouts, Apple has improved distance tracking on treadmills. And within the Cycle Tracking feature in the Health app, Apple has added support for monitoring symptoms related to perimenopause and menopause, as well as options to find support and educational resources. A Smarter Smart Stack You can now control Apple's Smart Stack with additional gestures. The Smart Stack is a customizable list of widgets that Apple dynamically updates based on your personal context. It surfaces the Exercise app if you're near the gym, for instance, or the Camera app if you have your phone's cam open. With a new single-tap gesture, you can now select one of these widgets to open the related app. You can also double-tap to scroll through the widgets. I found both gestures worked reliably and made it easier to navigate my watch with a single hand. Apple also added more widgets to the Smart Stack. You can pull up ID cards quickly at an airport or see your transit card account after hopping on the subway. A noise widget will warn you of an overly loud environment, and you can even quickly find your parked car on Apple Maps. Child Safety, Call Context, and More A few other new watchOS 27 features are designed to make your wearable experience safer and smoother. Parents can set intuitive screen time limits with the revamped Apple Watch for Your Kids setup. If you're on a call with a business, your watch can find and surface relevant context, like confirmation numbers, so you don't have to search your phone. The Liquid Glass look, central to watchOS 26, is refined with improved contrast. Music playback should start faster, and Apple will proactively disable unused features to extend battery life. The Find My app has also been refined with a map-centric design. Apple tucked a lot of subtle changes into this update, and after a few days of testing, I'm just scratching the surface of what's new in watchOS 27. I'm excited to keep exploring the rest and see what else Apple has in store as the summer progresses. The full release will undoubtedly be timed with Apple's next smartwatch debut in the fall (hopefully in early September). In the meantime, be sure to check out all of our current favorite smartwatches.

Siri AI on watchOS 27 Beta Helped Me Plan My Weekend

I felt a bit like Dick Tracy on a late Friday afternoon, as I had an extended conversation with my Apple Watch Ultra 3. I wasn't trying to fight crime; I was planning my weekend with Siri. The new AI-powered version of Apple's famous digital assistant lives in its own dedicated app in watchOS 27 and can use context from past questions to sustain a back-and-forth dialogue. I've spent roughly a week testing the beta of Apple's latest watch software, and while Siri AI is the headliner, Apple made a lot of existing features more convenient and informative. Workout Buddy has gotten better and can now work without your iPhone nearby. The Smart Stack offers more contextual suggestions and has added convenient gesture controls. Apple also updated Cycle Tracking and Child Accounts. First announced at WWDC in June, the watchOS 27 public beta is available to download and try now ahead of its general release, expected this fall. If you're interested in trying out the software on your own Apple Watch, read on for instructions on how to get the public beta up and running. If you don't want to take the risk, wait for the stable version to arrive later this year. Meanwhile, check out my first impressions of watchOS 27 beta below. For this first look, I tested the latest watchOS 27 developer beta, which arrived one week before the public beta release. How to Get the watchOS 27 Beta Grabbing the watchOS 27 beta is free and easy, as long as you have a current Apple Watch and some time to download. Specifically, you need an iPhone 11 or later and an Apple Watch 9 or later (the Apple Watch SE 3 and the Apple Watch Ultra 2 and Ultra 3 are eligible). To get started, you need to sign up for Apple's beta software program using your Apple ID. Next, download the iOS 27 beta to your phone, which is also public. Go to Settings > General > Software Update > Beta Updates to get it. After you update your phone to iOS 27, you must go through a similar process in the Watch app. Open the app, switch to the My Watch tab, and navigate to General > Software Update > Beta Updates. While the software is downloading, Apple recommends keeping your phone and watch close together, with the watch on the charger. The files for the iOS 27 and the watchOS 27 updates are pretty big, so expect each step to take 30 minutes or more, depending on your internet speed. They also need additional time to install after the download. You might want to budget an hour for the process. If possible, keep both devices plugged in to avoid any potential battery issues. Note that this is still beta software, and you can't go back once you install it. I haven't encountered any major issues thus far, but it's possible you will encounter bugs that you wouldn't find in a general release. Siri AI Siri got an AI makeover across Apple's platforms. Siri itself is more conversational and can answer a broad range of questions about most topics searchable on the internet, as well as questions that include personal context, as it can quickly pull info from your Apple devices to find the relevant data. The makeover is similar to Alexa's transformation into Alexa+ and Google switching from Google Assistant to Gemini. Indeed, the change to Siri AI comes after Apple partnered with Google on AI, so Gemini is part of Siri's new smarts. In addition to its enhanced smarts, Siri now lives in an app called Siri AI. You can still talk to Siri using the "Hey Siri" voice commands and other shortcuts, but you can now see your past conversations in a central place and start a new query through the app. This app has a specific wrist version that mirrors the phone version in iOS 27. On the watch, you can quickly access the app by pressing the crown. On watchOS 26 and before, this button opened your app drawer. Now, it pulls up a grid of apps with Siri AI in the center with suggested apps around it. The suggested apps are populated dynamically based on which ones you've used recently and which you use most often. From here, you can swipe up to return to the app drawer. I often found this grid was smart enough to surface the app I was looking for, so I didn't often have to go to the app drawer during my week of testing. As for Siri AI, I enjoyed chatting with it. When planning my weekend, it let me know about upcoming festivals in my home city of Chicago and provided extra details when I had follow-up questions about music acts and food at the Taste of Chicago. It stumbled a bit when I asked for an outdoor patio where I could drink with my friends and play Cornhole. It did recommend a spot with a patio, but no yard games. After enabling access to my health data, I was able to ask Siri how I slept, but it didn't respond to my follow-up inquiry about the amount of deep sleep I got. Instead, it referred me to the Health app on my iPhone. Siri on the watch also didn't show my past conversations like the phone version. For general information inquiries, Siri drew on past questions, and I was able to have a back-and-forth about the offerings at nearby breweries. While the software still seems to need some polish (as expected for a beta version), Siri AI feels more conversational and helpful than past versions of Apple's digital helper. Health Features Workout Buddy gets smarter with watchOS 27. The cheerful AI motivator still chimes in during certain exercises with encouragement and stat updates. With Apple's latest software, you can use it without your phone as long as your watch has a cellular connection. It's aware of more metrics for more detailed insights as it talks, and it's now available in Spanish. This is particularly noticeable in its opening and closing greetings, where Workout Buddy adds extra context. It talked about my exercise rings with specific detail about how much progress I still needed to make. It went over all of my stats after the run in a helpful overview, and complemented my durability after my longer session. Apple has avoided making Workout Buddy prescriptive. It's designed to provide encouragement and updates on the stats you want to track, but it won't offer unprompted critiques or advice. After my run, it could have easily noted my particularly slow pace on my sluggish day, but it kept things positive by focusing on duration. Siri AI is not yet integrated with Workout Buddy for extra in-depth analysis. For indoor workouts, Apple has improved distance tracking on treadmills. And within the Cycle Tracking feature in the Health app, Apple has added support for monitoring symptoms related to perimenopause and menopause, as well as options to find support and educational resources. A Smarter Smart Stack You can now control Apple's Smart Stack with additional gestures. The Smart Stack is a customizable list of widgets that Apple dynamically updates based on your personal context. It surfaces the Exercise app if you're near the gym, for instance, or the Camera app if you have your phone's cam open. With a new single-tap gesture, you can now select one of these widgets to open the related app. You can also double-tap to scroll through the widgets. I found both gestures worked reliably and made it easier to navigate my watch with a single hand. Apple also added more widgets to the Smart Stack. You can pull up ID cards quickly at an airport or see your transit card account after hopping on the subway. A noise widget will warn you of an overly loud environment, and you can even quickly find your parked car on Apple Maps. Child Safety, Call Context, and More A few other new watchOS 27 features are designed to make your wearable experience safer and smoother. Parents can set intuitive screen time limits with the revamped Apple Watch for Your Kids setup. If you're on a call with a business, your watch can find and surface relevant context, like confirmation numbers, so you don't have to search your phone. The Liquid Glass look, central to watchOS 26, is refined with improved contrast. Music playback should start faster, and Apple will proactively disable unused features to extend battery life. The Find My app has also been refined with a map-centric design. Apple tucked a lot of subtle changes into this update, and after a few days of testing, I'm just scratching the surface of what's new in watchOS 27. I'm excited to keep exploring the rest and see what else Apple has in store as the summer progresses. The full release will undoubtedly be timed with Apple's next smartwatch debut in the fall (hopefully in early September). In the meantime, be sure to check out all of our current favorite smartwatches.

Top watchOS 27 features that will enhance your Apple Watch

watchOS 27 packs some great new features. Here's everything new coming to Apple Watch this fall so far. Siri AI on Apple Watch, including dedicated app The flagship watchOS 27 feature is Siri AI. When Apple redesigned Siri and introduced Apple Intelligence two years ago, the Apple Watch wasn't part of that story. Now with watchOS 27, Apple Watch is gaining access to the redesigned and enhanced Siri. This includes a dedicated Siri app on watchOS that syncs with the Siri app on iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Vision Pro. Apple Watch will gain the Siri chatbot app, personal context understanding, in-app action capabilities, and much broader world knowledge. Siri AI isn't included in watchOS 27 beta 1, but Apple says it will be available in English this year. It's great to see Siri on the Apple Watch become as capable as the new Siri AI system on iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Vision Pro. Apple Watch was pretty left out of the original Apple Intelligence story. Dynamic app grid from Digital Crown Pressing the Digital Crown on Apple Watch with watchOS 27 invokes the new dynamic app grid. This is a set of six Siri-suggested apps that appear. If Siri AI is enabled, the Siri app takes the center position. An icon for launching the full app grid or app list also appears. The other apps chosen are based on recency and popularity, according to Apple. Clicking the Digital Crown once will invoke the dynamic app grid. Clicking it again will return to the watch face. You can click the Digital Crown and swipe up to go straight to the full app grid. Workout Buddy gains three enhancements in watchOS 27 watchOS 26's Workout Buddy feature was really the first AI-focused feature that came to the Apple Watch, and it required a nearby iPhone to work. That meant you couldn't benefit from Workout Buddy if you left your iPhone behind while exercising. That also changes this year as Workout Buddy now works without a nearby iPhone. Additionally, Workout Buddy language support expands from English-only to also include Spanish. Apple says Workout Buddy covers more insights as well including progress for pace, distance, and workout duration. Health and Fitness tracking improves in two ways Beyond Workout Buddy, Health and Fitness tracking in watchOS 27 includes two more improvements. First, Cycle Tracking is now more advanced with perimenopause and menopause support. "Cycle Tracking in the Health app can provide notifications when your logged cycle patterns are suggestive of perimenopause," Apple says. "You can track related symptoms and find support with educational resources." Next, tracking indoor runs or walks with a treadmill is now more accurate as well. "Improved motion tracking algorithms help measure the distance of your treadmill runs and walks more precisely right from your wrist," according to Apple. Apple also says that the step count in the Fitness app now syncs with steps counted in the Health app with watchOS 27 and iOS 27. watchOS 27 brings a new tap gesture Double tap on Apple Watch lets you open the Smart Stack to cycle through app widgets from your watch face. Starting with watchOS 27, a single tap gesture will let you interact with app widgets from the Smart Stack. This means you can tap your thumb and index twice to open the widgets view, double tap again to move to the next widget, or tap your thumb and index finger once to interact with widgets. For example, you can open the Heart Rate app from the Heart Rate widget to take a live reading, start a workout from a workout suggestion widget, or play/pause media playback from the Now Playing widget. It all works without tapping the watch face with your other hand. Smart Stack adds new widget suggestions Beyond a new gesture, watchOS 27 also greatly expands the number of widget suggestions that can automatically appear in the stack. New options include parked car location, the Siri app, birthday messages and celebrations, pinned messages, and much more. We'll dive into these further this summer. Find My app unified on Apple Watch Next up is the Find My app on Apple Watch. Starting with watchOS 27, Find My is a single, unified app, just like on iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Previously, the Find My experience on Apple Watch consisted of three separate app icons on the app grid or list for people, items, and devices. watchOS 27 also brings Precision Finding support to Apple Watch for locating a paired iPhone, AirTag 2, and AirPods Pro 3. watchOS 27 will suggest ways to save battery life Apple says that watchOS 27 introduces new battery optimization suggestions. In practice, this will come in the form of notifications about unused features being disabled to save battery life. These can include things like Start Workout reminders, gestures, and Raise to Speak for summoning Siri. If watchOS 27 sends a notification about an unused feature being disabled to extend battery life, there will be the option to override the proactive battery extension notification and leave the feature enabled. More app updates and changes Additionally, Apple says that watchOS 27 offers faster music playback on Apple Watch. Liquid Glass has been updated to focus on readability with more uniform refraction and better contrast. Wallet app supports new custom-generated cards from iOS 27. These can be pinned in the Smart Stack for easy access. Call Context, a new proactive feature for surfacing relevant data like flight information when on the phone with a business, also works on Apple Watch. And Apple's Child Safety features extend to Apple Watch and watchOS 27. During the keynote, Apple also listed these changes relevant to watchOS 27 and Apple Watch: * Improved Wi-Fi connectivity in watchOS * Guest key in watchOS * GymKit on iPhone and Apple Watch (previously Apple Watch-only) * Faster app extension launch in watchOS * More efficient water detection on Apple Watch * Redesigned settings in the Apple Watch app * View card balance in Wallet in watchOS * Transit cards and IDs in Smart Stack in watchOS watchOS 27 is currently available in developer and public beta. The final version is expected to arrive in September. Apple Watch Series 11 is currently priced from $299, a 25% discount on the regular $399 price, on Amazon. watchOS 27 requires Apple Watch Series 9 and later, Apple Watch Ultra 2 and later, and Apple Watch SE 3.

You Can Now Try Siri AI on Your Wrist

However, you'll need to assume the risks of installing the watchOS beta on your device. Siri AI might be the defining Apple story of 2026 -- even the upcoming foldable iPhone may not be able to compete. After a two-year delay -- and many more years of stagnant growth -- Apple's AI-upgraded assistant is here, and it actually appears to be quite useful. Most of the attention so far is on how Siri AI works on iPhone, iPad, and Mac, the devices with which you likely use Siri the most. But your Apple Watch is also getting the benefits of Siri AI this year as well -- assuming, of course, it is new enough to support watchOS 27. With a compatible Apple Watch running watchOS 27 (as well as an Apple Intelligence-enabled iPhone), you'll be able to call upon Apple's AI-powered assistant from your wrist. You can ask it questions like you would other chatbots (think ChatGPT or Gemini), request it to take action in specific apps (e.g., "Send Dad my flight number" or "Play that song that James sent me"), and ask for specific details from across your device, like the photos from a recent trip or the door code for your Airbnb. Plus, you can open the new Siri app to see the conversations you've had on your other Apple devices, and jump into one at any time. While it's still early days, preliminary reviews of Siri AI on Apple Watch appear to be positive, meaning Apple may have just turned your Apple Watch into a portable AI assistant that can handle quick requests while you're on-the-go. If you're intrigued, you don't need to wait to find out: Though the final version of watchOS 27 isn't due out until sometime this fall, you can actually try Siri AI on your watch right now. You just need to understand the risks involved. If you like predicting Apple's many product announcements, check out Lifehacker's "Big Guessing Game." The game is currently in its second round, and offers readers the chance to win the latest Apple Watch. You can't uninstall or downgrade from the watchOS 27 beta All betas come with some inherent risk. You agree to install unfinished software on your device in exchange for access to features the general public won't see for months. As such, you might encounter bugs and glitches you wouldn't normally find in general releases, and while these may be simply annoying, they could hypothetically impact your ability to use the device. If that happens on your iPhone or Mac, you can always uninstall the beta -- though that comes with the risk of data loss if you didn't perform a proper backup ahead of time. Still, you do have an emergency exit should you need it. No such exit exists for the watchOS betas: Once you install the watchOS 27 beta on your Apple Watch, it'll be stuck on the watchOS 27 beta until Apple completes the beta cycle. There is no way to downgrade to watchOS 26. I'm not trying to fear-monger. I haven't seen any reports that watchOS 27 is particularly unstable or is breaking people's Apple Watches. Still, it's a risk you need to be aware of if you decide to try watchOS 27 and Siri AI on your device ahead of the general release in the fall. Installing the watchOS 27 beta on your Apple Watch Siri AI is available on all compatible Apple devices through the company's various betas. For Apple Watch, that's the watchOS 27 beta. And even though it's impossible to downgrade from watchOS 27, it's actually not all that hard to install if you're interested: Now that the public beta is out, you can enroll your Apple Account in the Apple Beta Program to access it. You'll first need to install the public beta of iOS 27 on your iPhone, but once that's done, you'll be able to go to Settings > General > Software Update > Beta Updates in the Watch app and choose watchOS 27 Public Beta. From here, you can install the latest watchOS 27 beta like any other update, by navigating to General > Software Update in the Apple Watch app on your iPhone. Remember: You need an Apple Watch that supports watchOS 27 as well as an iPhone that supports Apple Intelligence for Siri AI to work. That generally means an iPhone 15 Pro or newer, as well as an Apple Watch Series 9 or newer, or Apple Watch Ultra 2 or newer. Siri AI won't be available right away, however. You'll need to manually join Apple's waitlist first. Once you do, there's no telling how long it will take to hit your iPhone and your Apple Watch. Some users report access within minutes, while others report it could take days.