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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.

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

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.

1. Open the Siri AI app and go to your conversations.
2. 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.

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

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.

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

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.

1. Go to iOS Settings or macOS System Settings and select Siri.
2. Tap Keep Conversations.
3. 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.

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.

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

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.

1. Head to iPhone or iPad Settings or Mac System Settings and select Siri.
2. Select Preview and pick None, 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5.
3. Now, go to the Siri app Conversations screen to see the changes.

Open a chat in a separate window

Unlike iPhone, you can touch and hold or Control-click a conversation on iPad and open it in its own separate window.

How are you liking the new Siri so far?

Also, check out: How to extend your photo on iPhone or Mac in iOS 27

Source link: https://www.idownloadblog.com/2026/08/06/customize-siri-app/

Apple’s new Upgrade leasing program lets you pay a low monthly fee for an iPhone, Mac, iPad, or Watch instead of the full price upfront. Max Tech creator Vadim Yuryev ran the numbers on a $2,999 MacBook Pro and claims that leasing, buying out the residual, and reselling can leave you hundreds ahead of purchasing outright — with zero interest. Here’s how the math works (and the caveats that still apply).

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In a post on X in response to Bloomberg’s Apple expert Mark Gurman, Yuryev walked through the math, using a $2,999 MacBook Pro as an example.

Explained this in today’s YouTube video. If you lease a $2,999 Mac, you pay $58 a month for 36 months. At the end, you owe $911 to pay it off or return it.

However, Apple gives you 6 more months to decide. Meanwhile, you continue paying monthly payments of $53.

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— Vadim Yuryev (@VadimYuryev) August 2, 2026

He said a 36-month lease would run $58 per month, leaving a $911 balance due at the end — though Apple gives lessees six additional months to decide, during which payments drop to $53 per month. Yuryev argued that paying off that final balance makes sense because the device could then be resold for “$1,500+ on eBay or Facebook marketplace,” rather than the customer simply losing the amount paid in over the life of the lease.

Yuryev emphasized that “you never pay more” than the device’s MSRP, since Apple Upgrade carries no interest or lease fees. He added that the primary risk is failing to keep up with payments or falling short on the final balance, and noted that once a device is paid off, users can start a new lease while keeping the original one.

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While, as AAPL shareholders, we wish Apple every success with their Apple Upgrade program via Klarna, in an age of zero-interest financing, “buy now, pay later,” and glossy leasing schemes dressed up as smart upgrades, a simple truth keeps getting buried (caution, soap box sermon ahead):

The surest way to build lasting wealth is to avoid debt entirely, buy only what you can afford outright, and live within your means.

Leasing expensive hardware, stretching payments over years, may feel painless month to month. It is still debt. You are paying for the privilege of using something you do not fully own, often while assuming residual balances, credit checks, and the risk that the used-market value collapses when everyone else is dumping the same leased devices. The math can be made to look attractive on a YouTube whiteboard. Reality is less forgiving.

Paying cash for what you can actually afford forces discipline. It prioritizes value over status. It eliminates interest, fees, and the quiet stress of monthly obligations. When the device eventually ages, you own it free and clear — you can sell it, keep it, or pass it on without a lender’s permission. That freedom compounds.

Financial success is not about maximizing monthly cash flow or chasing the newest model every two years. It’s not about keeping up with The Joneses. It is about keeping more of what you earn, avoiding the traps that turn consumers into lifelong renters, and building genuine ownership over time.

Debt is easy. Discipline is harder. The latter is the only reliable route to real financial independence.

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[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Fred Mertz” for the heads up.]

Source link: https://macdailynews.com/2026/08/04/apple-upgrade-paying-monthly-for-a-macbook-pro-might-actually-save-you-hundreds-of-dollars/