Apple is getting ready to completely overhaul Siri, and Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman is giving us the first real look at what’s coming. What we are seeing are renders created by Bloomberg.
According to Gurman, who cites people familiar with the company’s plans, the new Siri will be the main headline of iOS 27 and is expected to land in our hands as early as September, again. Apple is set to preview everything at its Worldwide Developers Conference on June 8. The short version: Siri is finally getting the AI upgrade it should have gotten years ago.
People familiar with the plans say there are now two ways to trigger Siri in iOS 27. The old way still works: say “Siri” or hold the power button and a redesigned animation pops out of the Dynamic Island. But there’s a new way too. Swipe down from the top centre of your screen and a “Search or Ask” interface opens up, letting you type or talk to get things done. From there you can launch apps, check the weather, search the web, set reminders, or dive into a full chatbot conversation inside a dedicated Siri app.
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And yes, there’s a dedicated Siri app now. Gurman says it looks and works a lot like ChatGPT or Gemini, with a conversation history you can scroll through and a full text and voice interface. Of course, Apple is leveraging Google to have Gemini power Siri.
One of the bigger details Gurman reports is that Apple is testing a feature that lets you choose which AI you want to answer your question. From the Search or Ask screen, a dropdown lets you route your query to Siri, ChatGPT, or potentially other services. Sources familiar with the matter say Apple has internally tested integrations with Google’s Gemini and Anthropic’s Claude as well.
For the first time, Siri is getting its own dedicated mode in the Camera app, sitting right alongside Photo and Portrait. According to sources familiar with the feature, it replaces the existing Visual Intelligence experience and lets you point your camera at something and have it analyzed by a third-party AI or run through a Google reverse image search.
Gurman also reports that the Photos app is getting two new AI editing tools called Reframe and Extend. Reframe lets you fix your composition after the fact, while Extend essentially lets AI imagine what was just outside the frame and add it in.
On the writing side, Apple is adding a systemwide grammar checker and a natural language version of the Shortcuts app, so instead of manually building automations step by step, you can just describe what you want to happen and Siri figures out the rest.
Sources familiar with Apple’s thinking say this is the biggest Siri update since it launched in 2011 (first to debut, but has since fallen by the wayside). Apple has fallen far behind its competitors, it’s not even funny anymore. This is Apple’s attempt to close that gap, and Gurman notes it will likely be CEO Tim Cook’s last major product launch before handing the reins to hardware chief John Ternus.
We can likely expect iOS 27 to again rollout this fall alongside new iPhones, which will likely include the iPhone 18 lineup and a foldable iPhone, the first ever from Apple.
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