Siri, Apple’s AI-powered virtual assistant and chatbot, will soon have a revamped interface, along with a new chatbot-style app and other major iOS 27 changes that the tech giant plans to announce at its June 8 Worldwide Developers Conference.
As per a report from Bloomberg, the new Siri will become the centrepiece of Apple’s next-generation iPhone, iPad and Mac software updates.
Analysts are terming the latest Siri launch to be a pivotal moment for Apple’s AI strategy, coinciding with the leadership change at the Silicon Valley giant, in which John Ternus, the current senior vice president of Apple’s hardware engineering, will take over the CEO’s role in September 2026.
“Apple first previewed some of the technology in 2024, only to suffer a series of delays that put it further behind competitors and hurt its reputation. The company has spent the past year rebuilding parts of the assistant while rethinking its broader approach to AI,” reported Bloomberg.
The Siri revamp, touted to be the biggest in the AI assistant’s nearly 15-year history, will be released to consumers as early as September. The event will also likely be Tim Cook’s final major product launch as the CEO before Ternus takes over the proceedings. The immediate test of the revamped Siri will come in the upcoming autumn, during which Apple will be launching its iPhone 18 Pro lineup, along with the company’s first foldable iPhone.
“The new Siri will include the delayed features announced in 2024, such as the ability to understand personal data and analyse on-screen content. But those capabilities are just one part of a broader wave of upgrades: a rebuilt model that uses Google Gemini technology, AI-powered web search and a completely redesigned interface. There’s also a dedicated Siri app designed to compete more directly with ChatGPT and other AI assistants,” Bloomberg reported further.
Apple has redesigned Siri for modern iPhone hardware, making it live inside the Dynamic Island (an interactive, shape-shifting pill-shaped area at the top of the iPhone screen that replaced the traditional notch) as an always-on agent that helps users get things done across the operating system and within apps. The system can draw on web data, personal information and what’s on a user’s screen to complete tasks.
Apple is also testing ways to open up iOS 27 to third-party AI agents installed through the App Store. The tech giant, which already has a partnership with OpenAI’s ChatGPT, recently tested integrations for Siri and other AI features with Google’s Gemini and Anthropic’s Claude, with the goal of routing queries directly to outside AI services from the “Search or Ask” interface.
As per the reports, the revamped Siri will resemble Claude, Gemini and ChatGPT. While the home screen will include a history of previous conversations, to help users return to prior chats, the conversational interface will further offer a voice mode, text field, and attachment picker for uploading documents and photos for context and analysis.
“When users ask for information, Siri presents rich text cards and results for topics such as people, places and news headlines. Similar cards also appear for weather forecasts and sports scores, as well as results pulled from a user’s own data, including notes, text messages, emails, contacts, calendar appointments and reminders. Siri will be smarter, too. In the interface planned by Apple, you can ask it for times you are available for appointments before scheduling something and for overlapping events. You can also ask the assistant to write emails, notes or text messages using information from the web and device content. That could include asking for a note to be created about how to fix a car engine or an email including your calendar availability,” Bloomberg noted.
Apple will also be integrating Siri into the Camera app as a dedicated mode alongside existing options like photo and video. The feature would let users take photos and have them analysed by a third-party AI agent or put into a Google reverse image search. This will help users to get used to visual AI ahead of future products like smart glasses and camera-equipped AirPods.
Apple is also bringing more “Apple Intelligence” features to the Photos app, including new tools called Reframe and Extend. Reframe can change the perspective of a photo, while Extend will be using AI to generate additional portions of an image. However, rival platforms from Google and others have offered similar capabilities for years.
The tech giant is also testing natural language prompt-based editing of photos that will enable users to ask via voice or text for specific edits, like cropping or changing colours.