Apple may be preparing to let Siri answer questions about your health. Code found in the first developer beta of iOS 27.3 contains two disabled feature flags that would connect the Siri AI assistant to the Health app, allowing it to search sleep, workout, Activity ring and medication records. Apple has not announced the feature, and the flags are switched off, so nothing changes on iPhones yet.

Two flags found in the iOS 27.3 beta

The discovery was made by code researcher pdfu, who posted the findings on X on 11 November 2026. The beta contains feature flags named IF/HealthSearch and IF/HealthSnippets. According to the findings, HealthSearch would add the Health app to Siri AI's search tool, letting the assistant retrieve recent readings and historical summaries across 92 HealthKit data types.

The code points to dedicated queries for Activity rings, individual workouts and workout summaries, readiness information, sleep summaries, medication schedules and logs, and Health Age and health assessments in the redesigned Health app. Vitals is notably absent from the list, even though the redesigned Health app's Insights tab covers vitals alongside readiness and sleep.

What HealthSnippets would add

The second flag, IF/HealthSnippets, covers the visual side of the feature. It would let Siri answer health questions with custom on-screen visualisations for health statistics, Activity rings, workouts and sleep summaries, rather than only reading out a number. Together, the two flags would turn Siri into a conversational front end for the Health app, so a user could ask how they slept or whether they closed their rings the previous day.

Why this is code, not a feature yet

Both flags are disabled in beta 1, and pdfu reports there is no easy way to turn them on. Feature flags found in a beta can change, shrink or disappear before the public release, and Apple has announced no timeline for either HealthSearch or HealthSnippets. The stable version of iOS 27.3 is expected to arrive in December 2026.

At present Siri AI cannot read Health data on an iPhone at all. Siri can read and write some Health data, such as blood pressure and body temperature, on an iPhone running iOS 17.2 or later, but only when the Siri language is English for the United States or Mandarin Chinese for mainland China.

Part of a wider Health app rebuild

The flags arrive in the same beta that brought back Apple's redesigned Health app, which returned in the iOS 27.3 developer beta on 3 November after being pulled before iOS 27.2 shipped. The rebuilt app adds an Insights tab, a For You section, a Longevity tab and a Health Age estimate, with a Readiness score that needs an Apple Watch Series 12 or Apple Watch Ultra 4. The Health flags landing in the same beta suggests the new app and Siri access are two halves of the same plan, but whether the access survives to the December release remains to be seen. Health data is among the most sensitive information on a phone, and Apple would need to explain what Siri can see, where answers are processed and how users can switch the access off.