Apple Releases iOS 27.2 With Siri AI in Five New Languages and 160-Plus Security Fixes

Apple released iOS 27.2 on October 27, adding Siri AI support for more languages and a large batch of security patches, TechCrunch reported.

Siri AI

Siri AI is now available in beta in French, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese and Spanish. The assistant can recall details from past conversations and draw on information such as photos attached in Messages, calendar event attendees, voicemails, Safari history and reading lists. Users can exclude specific apps from Siri AI's memories.

Other features

• FaceTime: Dual Capture streams from the front and rear cameras at once during group calls, and users can add a third-party sign language interpreter or live captioner to a call.
• Video calls: An Edge Light effect highlights the user's face.
• Messages: The app suggests turning a message into a reminder or calendar event.
• Shared Albums: Users can edit captions, add comments and get reminders about an album's expiry date.
• Podcasts: A refreshed layout shows new episodes from followed shows and episodes in progress.
• Apple TV: Multiview lets viewers watch up to four live sports streams at once, including MLS, Formula 1 and MLB Friday Night Baseball doubleheaders.
• iPhone Duo: Apple Pencil support arrives in apps such as Notes and Preview.

Security

Apple's release documentation lists more than 160 security fixes, many of them backported to iOS 26. Apple says about 80% of iPhone owners remain on iOS 26.

The company also backported to iOS 18 a bug fix first released in 2024. Apple said the flaw may have been exploited "in an extremely sophisticated attack against specific targeted individuals on versions of iOS before iOS 27." TechCrunch noted that Apple uses this wording when a phone may have been compromised by government spyware or a law enforcement forensic device, and that Apple did not say who exploited the bug.