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PaymanSiri AI (Beta)iPhone, iOS 27September 25, 2026
What they asked or tried
I opened Settings › Siri to check on the waitlist I had joined on September 19.
What they hoped would happen
A notification when Siri AI was ready. The waitlist screen had said, "You'll get a notification as soon as it's available." I thought there would be at least a notification in the Settings app.
What actually happened
It had already arrived. The waitlist line was gone, and Siri now read "Powered by Apple Intelligence," with a BETA badge. The new Siri app showed my first conversation on September 23, a question I asked around 7 pm, and I didn't notice a difference. I never received any communication about it: no notification, no email, nothing in junk, though Apple's other emails, including one about a new iPhone purchase, reached me as usual.
What worked, and what would have made it better
A notification when it arrived, as the waitlist screen promised, or at least a note in Settings.
PaymanSeptember 21, 2026
What they asked or tried
I have been watching Apple events for over twenty-five years — in person, and on Apple's own screens. I would block out my work schedule for them, and sometimes watch with my staff and my patients.
So I watched the WWDC keynote live, and the September event too. Then I updated my phone, and updated it to iOS 27, expecting the new Siri.
I have been buying Apple products that whole time, and lately I have been building on their platforms. I believed it the way I have believed most things Apple says it will do.
What they hoped would happen
The idea came before the domain did. When I first heard Apple had bought Siri, the app was genuinely capable — that is what put it in my head.
I bought this domain six days after Siri reached the public, back in 2011. Not for any reason I could have explained at the time. An homage, really — to Siri, and its potential for having users grow with it.
Then it went quiet. Muffled, for years. A couple of years ago, with AI, it seemed to get its wings again, and now there is a great deal more it can do.
That is still what I was hoping for. Not a feature. Something that would keep growing alongside the people using it.
Putting siriology.com out of the closet, after nearly fifteen years, took a few days. Apparently it had been fifteen years in the making, subconsciously.
What actually happened
Siri was still the old one.
I didn't find out why that day. The next day, going through Settings, I learned there was a waitlist. Nothing had told me — I went looking, and found it.
The Siri that has been over-promised for years is still behind the curtain.
It reminded me of standing in line to get into a club, and finding out once you were inside that the main event was still on its way.
The disappointment was the smaller part. What stayed with me was realizing there was nowhere to say anything about it — not to complain, but to tell someone who builds it what the experience had actually been.
What worked, and what would have made it better
A way to be told plainly where things stood, and a way to answer back.
The energy of the disappointment turned very quickly into the concept for the image on the home page. After that, the rest just flowed out — like puzzle pieces showing themselves where they fit. I am curious to see what those pieces do now, as one thing: Siriology.com.
I wanted to channel that energy into something constructive and impactful. Not just for me, but for the many people who may not have had the opportunity, or the voice, to do it themselves. A sounding board for others in the Apple community, made in a mindful way, because the world needs that now more than ever.
We are living in a world where human connection is being tested in so many ways. This was my contribution to making Apple human again — the soul and the heart that have been missing for a while now.
This has been a true passion project, as a Crazy One. I have done my part in trying not only to Think Different, but to Do Different and Be Different — in the true sense.
