Apple plans to turn Siri into a full-fledged AI chatbot later this year, as it scrambles to catch up with rivals like OpenAI and Google after years of falling behind in generative AI. The move follows reports that Apple plans to power Siri’s AI overhaul using Google’s Gemini technology.
The overhaul would fundamentally change how Siri works. Internally codenamed Campos, the new Siri is expected to replace the current interface entirely and behave more like a conversational chatbot.
Users would still summon it the same way, by saying “Hey Siri” or holding the side button, but the experience would feel closer to ChatGPT or Gemini, with the ability to type or talk back and forth more naturally.
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Bloomberg reports that the revamped Siri will be deeply embedded into iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27, rather than living as a standalone app. It is designed to go well beyond today’s Siri, with features like web searching, content creation, image generation, summarising information, and analysing uploaded files.
The new Siri will also be tightly integrated with Apple’s core apps, allowing users to do things like edit photos by voice, draft emails using calendar context, or find specific files, messages, and events more easily.
The chatbot version of Siri is expected to be unveiled at WWDC in June as a key feature of iOS 27 and macOS 27, with a broader rollout likely in September. Before that, Apple plans a more limited Siri and Apple Intelligence update with iOS 26.4 this spring, which keeps the current interface but upgrades the intelligence using Google’s Gemini models.
That makes iOS 26 more of a stepping stone toward a bigger Siri reset later this year. Apple has not commented publicly on the report, but the scale of the overhaul points to growing pressure as rivals continue to bake conversational AI deeply into their platforms, leaving Apple with little room to keep Siri as it is.