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Apple rolls out iOS 27.2 with new Siri AI languages and security fixes

Update includes expanded language support for Siri, Apple Pencil integration for iPhone Duo, and new FaceTime features.

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Apple has launched iOS 27.2, introducing expanded language support and memory features for Siri AI, Apple Pencil integration for the iPhone Duo, and new multitasking capabilities for FaceTime and Apple TV sports streaming.

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Apple is competing with other AI model makers like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google to improve assistant memory. The iPhone Duo is Apple's foldable device currently experiencing early display issues.

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Apple has rolled out its latest iOS 27.2 update for iPhones and iPads, featuring expanded language support and improved memory functions for Siri AI, suggestions in messages, and Apple Pencil support for the foldable iPhone Duo.

With the new software update, Siri AI can now be used in French, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, and Spanish, in beta. Apple says the AI assistant can now remember details from past conversations and answer accordingly. The ability for AI assistants to remember a person’s preferences have been a key area of focus for AI model makers, including OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google, whose assistants now do a better job at recalling facts and choices related to users.

Apart from its own suggestions and answers, Siri can also tap into sources like photos attached in Messages, calendar event attendees, voicemails, Safari history, and reading lists. Users can define what apps they might want to exclude from Siri AI’s memories.

While the iPhone Duo is facing some display related problems for early buyers, Apple is adding more features with the update. iOS 27.2 brings Apple Pencil support for the foldable in apps like Notes and Preview. What’s more, users can use the Edge Light effect to highlight their face better during video calls.

The new software version also adds features for FaceTime, including streaming via front and rear camera simultaneously through Dual Capture for group call, and ability to add a third-party sign language interpreter or live captioner to a call.

Users on iOS 27.2 will get suggestions to add a message as an item in a reminder or an event in a calendar. Plus, users can edit captions or add comments in Shared Albums along with reminders of the expiry date of the folder.

The update also refreshes the Podcast app, which will show new episodes from the shows you follow and also the episodes that you are currently listening to.

Apple has also added Multiview to iPhone so viewers can watch up to four live sport streams simultaneously on Apple TV such as Major League Soccer (MLS), Formula 1 (F1) in the U.S., and Friday Night Baseball doubleheaders during the Major League Baseball (MLB) season. Users can also view multiple feeds of F1 during the broadcast.

iOS 27.2 also packs in over 160 security fixes, according to the company’s release documentation. Many of the bug fixes were also backported so that users running the older iOS 26 software can benefit from the fixes.

Apple says that about 80% of iPhone owners are still running iOS 26.