[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"branding":3,"analytics":7,"article-three-siri-ai-settings-worth-changing-and-one-hardware-cutoff":10,"sections":41},{"siteName":4,"siteTagline":5,"publisherName":4,"contactEmail":6},"The Revision","Tech news, decoded.","editor@therevision.news",{"gaMeasurementId":8,"adsenseClientId":9},"G-ZW2MV82GYR","ca-pub-8533917693782264",{"article":11},{"id":12,"slug":13,"title":14,"dek":15,"body_md":16,"tags_json":17,"published_at":18,"created_at":19,"updated_at":20,"status":21,"review_note":22,"review_notes":23,"image_url":22,"persona_id":22,"persona_name":22,"section":30,"tags":31,"sources":36,"feedback":40,"feedback_at":22,"cost_usd":40,"total_tokens":40},12041,"three-siri-ai-settings-worth-changing-and-one-hardware-cutoff","Three Siri AI Settings Worth Changing, and One Hardware Cutoff","Silent Response, Automatically Send Messages and High Quality Clean Up are all user-chosen, while Expressive Voice needs recent hardware.","Siri AI, the assistant built into iOS 27 and macOS 27, has three settings that change how it behaves, and one voice feature that depends on which device you own.\n\nThe first two sit under Settings > Siri > Responses. Silent Response makes Siri answer in text even when you speak to it. Automatically Send Messages drops the confirmation step before Siri sends a text. The reviewer who wrote the guide calls both hidden settings and said Siri asks for confirmation too often. That complaint holds for messages more than for deleting mail, where the prompt is a reasonable brake. Turning off the check on sending also means a misheard dictation goes out unreviewed.\n\nThe third is Clean Up, the photo object remover. In iOS 18 it ran on-device models, and the reviewer said the results were lacking. It now runs Apple's own Apple Foundation Models in Private Cloud Compute, Apple's server-side processing. According to the reviewer, it removes objects reliably and accounts for shadows, but only in High Quality mode, not the default Auto. Find it under Edit > Tools > Clean Up. The cost is a wait while Apple's servers finish the job.\n\nExpressive Voice is different. It sits at Settings > Siri > Voice, with a Pace control and an Expressivity slider, but it only works on iPhone 17 Pro and higher, iPhone Air, and Macs with an M3 chip or newer and at least 12GB of RAM. No setting unlocks it on older devices.\n\nThe rest of the guide covers features reached through gestures and menus, not switches. Tap and hold selected text and choose Ask Siri, or right-click on a Mac. Press and hold Camera Control for Siri's camera mode. Open Shortcuts and use Describe a shortcut. ChatGPT is still reachable through the Ask option in the Siri app's text field.\n\nThe reviewer frames this as the payoff of Apple building its own models, 15 years after Siri debuted on the iPhone 4S and four years after ChatGPT arrived. 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