Advanced AI Dictation Not Enabled by Default in iOS 27 Beta (opens in new tab)

Apple's next-generation AI dictation feature for the and is not turned on by default in the first developer beta of . Apple says the new AI-powered dictation system delivers "a major boost in accuracy," with more reliable on-the-fly capitalization and punctuation than the existing dictation system. The feature runs on Apple's new , which is a 20-billion-parameter, natively multimodal system that uses a sparse architecture, activating just one to four billion parameters at a time depending on ...