Siri already reads your calendar, your messages, and your files. Your body is next. Buried in the first iOS 27.3 developer beta are disabled feature flags that would let Apple's rebuilt assistant search your Health app — not just open it, but answer questions from the data inside it, according to Gadgets 360.
The find comes from X user @itspdfu, who spotted two flags in the beta code. The first, called IF/HealthSearch, would let Siri retrieve recent readings and historical summaries across 92 HealthKit data types. The beta contains dedicated queries for Activity Rings, individual workouts, workout summaries, readiness, sleep summaries, and medication schedules and logs — plus Health Age and health assessments from the redesigned Health app. A second flag, IF/HealthSnippets, would let Siri answer with custom visualizations for those stats instead of just text.
This is the most sensitive category Siri has ever been pointed at. In iOS 27.3, Siri AI already takes actions inside 15 of Apple's own apps — scheduling messages, organizing files, building playlists — but those are chores. Your medication log and sleep history are something else: the kind of data Apple has spent a decade insisting never leaves your device. The redesigned Health app leans on exactly that promise, running its movement evaluations and Health Age calculations on-device with no video recorded, stored, or shared. The open question now is whether Siri's health answers get the same treatment, or whether asking about your heart rate sends the question somewhere else.
There is also a billing question hiding inside this one. Apple just started charging for extra AI usage, with Siri AI carrying daily limits and paid packs for more. If health queries count against those limits, the assistant that knows your body will also be metering it.
None of this is live, and none of it is promised. The flags are disabled, Apple has announced no timeline for either feature, and the stable iOS 27.3 release is expected in December. Beta features have a habit of vanishing — the redesigned Health app itself was pulled from the iOS 27.2 betas before returning in 27.3. What to watch: whether HealthSearch survives to the public beta, whether Apple puts an explicit permission gate in front of it, and whether it connects to the Health+ AI agent Mark Gurman has reported is in the works. Siri knowing your health is inevitable. How Apple asks permission for it is the actual story.
— via Gadgets360