Tips to customize the new iOS 27 Siri app on iPhone or Mac

Go through these quick tips to personalize the new Siri app on your iPhone, iPad, and Mac to get the best experience and make the most out of all its features.

iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27 Golden Gate (currently in beta) add a new Siri app, which is similar to other text-based conversational AI apps like ChatGPT, Grok, and Claude. You can type your query or use voice to get relevant answers.

What you ask is automatically saved as a conversation in the app so you can reference it later. Additionally, the queries you ask Siri voice assistant (the same one you invoke by pressing the Siri button or saying “Hey Siri”) are also saved in the new Siri app.

On top of that, everything syncs via iCloud, ensuring that all chats, regardless of which device you started them on, are available on all your iPhone, iPad, and Mac for a seamless experience.

Here are some tips for customizing this new app to your liking. Note that while I’m using an iPhone to demo the steps, everything mentioned here is also available on iPad and Mac.

Change the conversation view style

You can choose to see all your past Siri conversations in list or grid view. I prefer the list view as it shows me more on one screen.

Open the new Siri app, and you should see your conversations. If not, tap the X icon at the top.
Tap the three lines menu icon and select Grid or List styles.

List and Grid view for past Siri conversations on iPhone

Rename conversation title

When you use Siri or ask a question in the new Siri AI app, the service automatically assigns a relevant name to your conversation. While this name is usually correct, you do have the option to change it to something you think is better.

Open the Siri AI app and go to your conversations.
Touch and hold a conversation, select Rename, and give it a new title.

Pin conversations to the top

Just like Notes, Messages, and WhatsApp let you pin your most important stuff to the top of the screen, the Siri app does the same so that you can reference important conversations easily.

Chat apps like Messages and WhatsApp have a limit on how many items you can pin to the top. It’s 9 for Messages and 3 for WhatsApp, which increase to 20 if you subscribe to WhatsApp Plus. But similar to Notes, the Siri app doesn’t seem to have a limit. I pinned more than 10 conversations, and it continued working.

Go to the all conversations screen in the Siri app.
Touch and hold a chat and select Pin to stick it to the top of this screen.

Pinned conversations in Siri app on iOS 27

Set Siri app to open to a new conversation

You can have the Siri AI app open to a new conversation screen (like how ChatGPT, Grok, and Claude open). Or, you can have it show all your past conversations, and then tap the new chat button from there.

I rarely need to go back to my past Siri chats, so I have set it to launch with a new conversation by default so I can start asking my new query right away.

Open the iOS 27 Settings app or macOS 27 System Settings.
Select Siri.
Tap Opens To and select ‘A New Conversation’ or ‘Recent Conversations.’

Setting new Siri app to open to a new conversation on iPhone

Auto delete conversations

Just like you can set all old messages to auto-delete, the new Siri app has a similar option to keep your experience clean and devoid of past baggage.

Go to iOS Settings or macOS System Settings and select Siri.
Tap Keep Conversations.
Select 30 Days or 1 Year instead of Forever. Remember that this feature applies retroactively, meaning if you select 30 Days, all current chats that are older than this will be permanently deleted now.

Setting Siri conversations to auto delete

Select and delete past conversations quickly

While there is an easy Select button on the Siri conversations screen, there is a faster way to select multiple conversations and delete them. This requires using the two-finger gesture, which also works in Messages, Mail, and other iOS apps.

Open the Siri app and go to the conversations screen.
Tap the menu icon and make sure you’re in List style view.
Drag with two fingers to select multiple conversations in a smooth manner.
Tap the trash icon to delete selected Siri chats.

Selecting multiple conversations quickly in Siri AI app in iOS 27

Adjust the preview limit for conversations

Similar to the Mail app that allows you to see how many lines of email you want to see on the main Inbox screen, you can set the Siri AI app to display 1 to 5 lines or none at all.

If you select None, the Conversations screen will only show the chat titles. But selecting a number between 1 and 5 displays that many lines of the answer.